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PERSPECTIVE Don Atkin |
QUESTIONS REGARDING EQUIPPING
I received the following questions, and decided to share my response
abroad.
I
want to know what Jesus really intended when He gave the five
fold the responsibility of equipping. What does it
mean for those who are congregation leaders today? Are they
more committed to structuring an environment that gives them job
security, or a place to display their gifts and anointing?
Or have they committed to being a servant who increases the
capacity of everyone within their sphere of influence? What
does equipping look like? How does it behave? What are
the evidences of good equipping in those equipped?
The second and third
questions are (or ought to be) rhetorical.
Jesus’ intention is clearly the second choice.
Equippers are to be servants who increase the capacity of
everyone within their spheres of influence.
I will not take the time to elaborate upon the motivations
of those who are doing otherwise. Rather, I will point you to Jesus, who devoted
His brief years of anointed service to the equipping of the saints.
What does equipping
look like?
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Teaching increases
knowledge |
Teaching focuses
on content |
There is much teaching,
little training, and practically no equipping going on in today’s
church. Thus, the masses have little capacity for things
pertaining to the kingdom. The
hallmark of Jesus’ discipling example was
His personal investment in twelve men whom the Father had given to
Him.
Equipping looks like
life together ~ equipper focusing upon the person being equipped ~
sharing experiences, explaining life in practical terms from biblical
perspectives, tangibly demonstrating how to relate to, hear from,
and obey the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit.
Equipping takes time and requires the sacrifice of self, becoming
poor that others might become rich.
How does equipping
behave?
Equipping manifests
the behavior of the Spirit. Equipping
loves, is joyful, peaceful, suffers long, is kind, good and faithful,
gentle, and self-controlled.
Equipping is humble,
polite, and unselfish, does not react, and rejoices in speaking the
truth in love. Equipping bears, believes, hopes and endures.
Equipping preserves the honor and dignity of those who are
being equipped.
Equipping discerns between
those who are unruly, those who are fainthearted, and those who are
weak ~~~ and seeks the wisdom from above in order to rightly meet
each disciple where He personally is.
What are the evidences
of good equipping in those equipped?
Maturity
Placement
Anointed Function
Fulfilled Vision
Fruitfulness
“No longer do I call
you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing;
but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My
Father I have made known to you.”
- Jesus
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