Give your people a mission and you’ll have less problems recruiting …

Many of today’s church leaders view church members with a term I have great disdain for — as “volunteers.”

If we really believe in the “ministry of all believers,” then we KNOW “volunteer” is a BAD term! It reeks of a “clergy/laity” division, which is anything but a “ministry of all believers” view. AND, approaching ministry as programs you lead and plug volunteers into actually creates a recruiting problem for you.

Would you like to reduce or eliminate your recruiting problems?

Then give your people a mission to accomplish in the church, along with your commitment to equip and support them.

We’ve come to believe we must minimize the commitments we challenge people to, and cannot expect them to serve for extended periods at a time. That’s only because we’ve created in them the mentality that they’re just a “volunteer” rather than a fellow minister who takes ownership of completing a mission of ministry in the church.

But if we challenge people to own an area of ministry, something with specific objectives to accomplish that might take them a few YEARS to accomplish, then you’ll likely see more people taking on longer-term ministry commitments to the church.

People often surprise you by RISING TO THE CHALLENGES you make of them. If you challenge your people to serve as fellow ministers and take on responsibility for areas of ministry, many will respond to such a challenge with great attitudes and a willingness to do more.

Try it, what do you have to lose except for your headache over constantly recruiting?

Scotty