Doing Justice and Loving Mercy: Compassion Ministries, Mentor's Guide, MG16

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D O I N G J U S T I C E A N D L O V I N G M E R C Y : C O M P A S S I O N M I N I S T R I E S

3. Help believers identify their gifts in a setting of freedom, love, and support.

a. Expose people to needs inside and outside the Church.

b. Keller: the five invitational questions, Keller, p. 16ff.

(1) Is there a particular need I vibrate to?

(2) What personal, emotional, and spiritual resources do I have to meet the need? (3) Are there two or three others in the body I can share my burden to meet this need with?

(4) Is there really an opening to start this ministry?

(5) Have I really counted the cost?

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B. Help your people identify and use their spiritual gifts.

1. Create a spirit of experimentation and creative expression.

2. Allow people to try things out (with supervision and help).

C. Organize task forces for outreach and ministry.

D. Recruit others to join the effort.

E. Don’t quench the Spirit, 1 Thess. 5.19-22.