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How Can You Help Your People Leverage the Workplace for Outreach?

6/13/2014

 
This week with John Pletcher we have talked about multiplying workplace missionaries in our small churches. If you had to grade your church on this concept, on a 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being best, what would you grade it?
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Do you, as the pastor, have a good grasp on where the adults in your church work?

Have you ever viewed those workplaces as outposts where your people take the Gospel?

Have you ever considered the kind of people that your church members work with, and tried to equip each member specifically to reach out to the people around them?

Did you, prior to listening to this week’s podcast, ever truly view the people in your church, in action at their workplaces, as the best missionary outreach strategy your church could have?

How are you and the other church leaders training and equipping your people to be missionaries to their workplaces?

Let’s think out loud for a minute…
  1. How do your people view themselves at their workplaces?
  2. What do they think their roles are at work as believers in Christ?
  3. What is your church’s outreach strategy?
  4. How capable are your people of clearly sharing their story of faith?
  5. How comfortable would your folks be to invite a co-worker to your church?
  6. What would you do with one if they attended?
  7. How could you align a sermon series around John’s book, Henry’s Glory, and also add Sunday School or Small Group teaching, a special invite Sunday, etc. to capitalize on new visitors?
  8. How long has it been since you have thought about anything like this?
  9. Why not use Henry’s Glory as a fall sermon series and small group curriculum?

All these questions… Just a thought. :)

Bob Daknis link
6/12/2014 11:14:09 pm

Excellent Podcast ... You seem like old friends? What would you suggest for a pastor if many of his people work 40 to 50 miles away? In the DC area many work in building the pastor might be allowed to go into. Besides meeting for lunch how else can the pastor encourage others in there calling...This also sound like men meeting with other men ... what about the pastor meeting for lunch with a working mom or stay at home mom ... how is that best handled? take care and God bless.

John Pletcher link
6/13/2014 06:15:58 am

Great ?'s, Bob. Other ideas for encouraging workplace missionaries include actually doing a "Faith @ Work" series for 3 to 6 weeks, at least once a year. It's also tremendous to have people share faith@work stories on Sundays to celebrate what's happening, spotlighting where God is at work. I also like to buy some books that encourage marketplace ministers and share those with key leaders, etc. (if you'd like more info on how to assemble a "Faith @ Work" series, just shout and I'll share some resource ideas. Way to engage, Bob, with leading and loving leaders in the workplace!

Bob Daknis link
6/18/2014 02:24:35 am

John ... Faith@work series - I have been going to church for - Well lets just say a long time!! - I don't recall anyone doing a Faith@work series at all... sharing my faith yes but not focused on the work place .. GREAT idea - I will encourage my church guys to see if that can't be done sometime soon ...

Jeff Keady link
6/13/2014 04:42:08 am

Hey Bob, no fair! You can't answer my questions with more questions! :) We are only old friends from our retreat a month ago. Although we both attended the same school and have common friends, we never met each other before the retreat.

I love your questions though. If our people work 40 miles away, it just means that the people they reach spiritually would likely not end up in our churches, but that's OK. ...right? Yes, of course it is.

And there may be places we can't go, but as pastors, and with prior approval, we might be able to get into places others can't. We can only try.

And with women members - I think that we all have to use our judgment. Of course we have women pastors who read the blog and listen to the podcast. So for them it would be just the opposite - how do they connect with the men? I think women pastors and men pastors can visit at the workplace, members of the opposite sex - even eat lunch in a cafeteria with them. I personally think we need to give women the same respect/treatment as we give men in this area. Yes, I know about all of the dangers and warnings, but I think sometimes we can go overboard on those things and just be really weird about it.

Stay at home moms still have tons of opportunities to reach out in their own spheres with all of the people they connect with on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

I think that we all can get a whole lot more creative about this - think outside the box - have a different mindset on being missional in our workplaces, neighborhoods, community retail areas, etc.

Thanks Bob!

Bob Daknis link
6/18/2014 02:29:11 am

Jeff ... thanks ...i actually appreciate your inclusion of the female pastors and their challenge in connecting ... that's not part of my tradition and was not even in my realm of thinking.... GREAT points of course .. there is some GOLD in connecting with stay at home moms and a prayerful strategy on connecting with them really make sense.

Jeff Keady link
6/18/2014 03:28:04 am

Bob, there are literally thousands of women pastors all around the United States, but so many pastoral resources are presented in a way that assumes all pastors are men. We decided from the start to do our best to serve and encourage women pastors. Pastor Cynthia was featured on episode 45 - she has served her church for over 20 years.

Jeff Keady
6/13/2014 08:29:14 am

Thank you for contributing John. I thought you might be hovering close by. :-) We look forward to having you back on the podcast in the near future!


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