Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church was in Lima yesterday, and my wife, Dorcas, and I were honored to be part of a small group of pastors who met with Hybels and listened to him speak about various pastoral, church, and ministry leadership issues.
Hybels was brilliant all day long, and he generously shared his wisdom and experience on a host of different issues. One item that particularly caught my attention was how he told us that, as pastors and church and ministry leaders, we must be careful not to just "fill the bucket" for people every week; instead, we need to teach people how to become personally engaged in the Bible, so that they can learn to feed themselves spiritually, instead of us just "filling their buckets" every Sunday morning. When we teach people how to feed and fill themselves spiritually, through the Bible, and also how to serve, and also how to become involved in a small group, then we are on our way to developing people who are truly Christ-centered, and who are fully involved in service and ministry.
It was a compelling lesson for me as a pastor, and I also believe that it is a compelling lesson for anyone involved in an international church or ministry.
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