Ministry in a Multi-Cultural and Unchurched Society

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2. Inaccessible academically

3. Takes too much time

4. Contextually misapplied: simply too long, offered far from ministry environment – offered in a “foreign context”

5. Not culturally conducive to their life and ministry

6. Irrelevant in form and content, esoteric content

C. Believe that the Holy Spirit calls even the urban poor to represent his Kingdom in the city.

D. Believe that God’s call and gifting are irrevocable even for the poor (Rom. 11.34; James 2.5).

E. Bottom Line: The cities of the world can be reached as we equip and train the poor to minister to the poor.

IV. C – Concentrate Our Focus Investment in Strategic Focus: Equipping Leaders among the Poor

A. Scriptures

1. Eph. 4.11-16 (ESV) – And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, [12] to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, [13] until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, [14] so that we may no longer be