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Are You Discipling Your Board?

Focus on personal relationships to foster spiritual growth.

This week's featured resource is Church Board Essentials, a discounted collection that includes everything you need to put together a great board, or revitalize your current board. Below is an excerpt from "Disciple Your Board," an article included in "Becoming a Great Church Board," which is included in this pack.

Three years of an intimate, almost unbroken relationship with Jesus prepared 12 men to turn the world upside down. Whether you are starting a new church or beginning ministry in an established one, you will find this fundamental strategy of Jesus to be the key to growing strong, healthy board members.

The Discipling Pastor

When Jesus spent time with the Twelve, the disciples learned from what Jesus did as well as from what he said. His attitude under pressure and his response to those who came to him were constant demonstrations of how to care for those in need. Time with Jesus was an ideal "School of the Spirit." The pastor needs to seek that ideal with the board.

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