The Right Signature Responsibilities

In this episode, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg discuss the importance of teaching your church their position. When we teach our church and help our church discover THEIR DESIGN, we begin to see people serve and lead in the right lane. This creates cultures of celebration, joy, and purpose in the work of the ministry.

Show Notes

Why is it important to teach your church to play their position well?

Pastors must know their DESIGN.
Pastors must teach their church THEIR DESIGN.
This is the job description of the pastor.

How do we see pastors fail at this?

Pastors lean on their gifts and their churches often look like their primary gifts.
Pastor guilt points to pastors working in lanes where they are not gifted.

What are the signature responsibilities of a pastor?

Preach
Pray
Protect
Lead

What are the supporting responsibilities of a pastor?

The signature responsibilities are always the same.
The supporting roles are different for everyone.
You get to do what you enjoy in how you are gifted.
You then get to build teams around what you don’t enjoy and what you are not gifted for.

QUOTES:

When you are leaning into your gifts, you are functioning how God has designed you.
It’s important to teach your church this conversation so they can have vocabulary for their church’s strengths and weaknesses.
We cannot be the answer for everything as pastors.
It always goes back to the model that Jesus gave to us.
The motivator is always equipping the saints for the work of ministry.