1. Leaving a Legacy of Loving Leaders The 4E Ministry Training Strategy Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D.

2. Are You Milton Berle or Ed Sullivan?

4. The Big Question How do we effectively disciple the Body of Christ for one another ministry in the church and to the community? How do we leave a legacy of loving leaders?

5. Equipping the Saints Can Feel Like a Maze!

6. Need Some Directions?

7. Some Signs Are Spot On!

8. Some Signs Are Confusing!

9. The Big Picture: The End Goal—Transformed People A relationship with the transforming Person leads to a transforming Pastor wisely leading a transforming Process that transforms People (Individually and Corporately) so they transform People (Church and Community)

10. The Big Picture: Transformed People  A Fellow Traveler, Not the Expert Guide  A Transformational Process, Not a Program  A Relational Strategy, Not a Straight-Jacket  An Approach, Not the Answer  Not One-Size-Fits-All

11. The 4E Ministry Training Strategy  Envisioning: Jointly Creating the MVP-C  Enlisting: Birthing Family/Building Team  Equipping: Transformational Coaching  Empowering: Leaving a Legacy/Loving Leaders

12. 4E Ministry Pictured: The Bus Analogy  Envision: Is the Bus Moving in the Right Direction?—Core Values  Enlist: Is Anyone on the Bus? Are the Right People in the Right Seats?—Committed People  Equip: Is Every Passenger Also a Good Driver?—Coached People  Empower: Is the Engine Running on All Cylinders?—Comprehensive Strategy

13. Envisioning God’s Ministry: Assessing Needs: Examining Heart Health “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet” (Frederick Buechner).

14. Envisioning God’s Ministry: Dreaming God’s Dream  Three Major Problems: Top-Down No Biblical Theology No MAP

15.  Mission: Universal Calling  Vision: Unique Calling  Passion: Captivating Identity  Commission: MAP—Ministry Action Plan Envisioning God’s Ministry: Dreaming God’s Dream

16.  How Do You Get the Congregation on the Bus? Enlisting God’s Ministers for Ministry

17. Enlisting God’s Ministers for Ministry:  A Church Of Not Just a Church With  Don’t Just Have a Biblical Counseling Ministry; Be a Biblical Counseling Ministry

18. Enlisting God’s Ministers for Ministry:  Birth a Family/Build a Team

19.  Many Churches Enlist/Employ Ill-Equipped People  Many Churches Fail to Comprehensively Equip the People They Enlist/Employ Equipping Godly Ministers for Ministry

20. The Résumé of the Equipped Christian Romans 15:14 “I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge, and competent to instruct one another.”

21. The Apostle Paul and the Ordinary, Average Christian in Rome  Content: “Complete in Knowledge”  Character: “Full of Goodness”  Competence: “Competent to Instruct”  Community: “Brothers”/“One Another”

22. Empowering Godly Ministers for Ministry

24. Leaving a Legacy of Loving Leaders Want to Change Lives?