{"id":5683,"date":"2021-08-06T23:52:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T23:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/?page_id=5683"},"modified":"2021-08-07T17:55:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T17:55:44","slug":"recruiting-ladies-for-the-purpose-of-growing-together","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/recruiting-ladies-for-the-purpose-of-growing-together","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting Ladies For The Purpose Of Growing Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--link_hover_color: #86c3e3;--link_color: 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style=\"--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:0;--awb-spacing-left-small:0;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:25px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-center fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#1f3657;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;--awb-sep-color:#e3a630;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e3a630;\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><h2 class=\"title-heading-center fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:50;line-height:1.29;\">Recruiting Ladies to Grow Together<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e3a630;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Betty Brock<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever watched a child learn the delicate art of persuading friends or siblings to play what he wants to play or even help him with his chores?\u00a0 I watched one of my children learn this art form.\u00a0 At first when he came up with a great idea of fun with which he wanted everyone to\u00a0 join in, he told them it would be fun and that they should join him in his new game.\u00a0 His friends and siblings did not believe him, and they did not fall in with his plan.\u00a0 He came in complaining and frustrated that he had a really great idea, and no one would try it.\u00a0 I listened to the idea, agreed that the idea would be fun for the friends and siblings, and then gave him my wise motherly advice:\u00a0 go back out and putter around with his project, ask one of his knowledgeable friends for some input on bettering the idea, ask his friend if he thought anyone else would like to work on it with them, and always look like he was having lots of fun.\u00a0 Pretty basic stuff!\u00a0 But it worked. And the same ideas apply in our women\u2019s ministries.\u00a0 We sometimes call this recruitment and delegation.<\/p>\n<p>As I have talked with pastors\u2019 wives and ladies who work with women\u2019s ministries, I have had many different responses as to how they generate help for their different responsibilities.\u00a0 Some have said they do everything and like it that way.\u00a0 Some say they do everything because they don\u2019t have anyone qualified to do the different tasks.\u00a0 One pastor\u2019s wife told me that she feared people may think she is not qualified if she does not do the jobs herself.\u00a0 I sometimes hear of the fears concerning disloyalty to the leadership and problems caused in the church when delegating is done.\u00a0 Even though there may be problems in the process, God does want us to involve others in ministry.\u00a0 We often believe that a successful outcome of an event or ministry goal means God has been glorified, but God is as interested in the process of growing people as He is the final outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Exodus 18:13-26 gives us an excellent example of God\u2019s attitude about doing the job alone.\u00a0 Jethro, Moses\u2019 father-in-law, came for a short visit from Midian to find Moses serving as the only judge of the children of Israel \u201cfrom the morning unto the evening.\u201d\u00a0 In the past, Jethro had only seen Moses as a shepherd; now Moses was the leader of a nation.\u00a0 Would Jethro be proud of his famed son-in-law?\u00a0 Notice Jethro\u2019s response, \u201cThe thing that thou doest is not good.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 This wise man who had mentored Moses on the back side of the desert taught him again the valuable leadership principle of involving others rather than one-man rule.\u00a0 \u201cThou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone\u201d<i> (Exodus 18:18).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As Moses, we will wear out by doing everything ourselves.\u00a0 Finding qualified people is sometimes a challenge; Moses had no experienced judges to choose from\u2014only ex-bricklayers.\u00a0 Verse 16 indicates that Moses thought he was the best person to relay to the people God\u2019s decrees and laws, and most probably the people thought he was the best choice. Yet he followed Jethro\u2019s advice and chose \u201cable men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness\u201d to help rule the people.\u00a0 In Numbers 11 and 27, Moses again delegated more responsibility and authority with God\u2019s direction and protection \u201cthat thou bear it not thyself alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, the first step is realizing that it is not God\u2019s plan for us to do the job alone.\u00a0 The second step is learning the differences in ladies\u2019 personalities, leadership styles, and spiritual gifts.\u00a0 The book, <i>The Delicate Art of Dancing with Porcupines:\u00a0 Learning to Appreciate the Finer Points of Others<\/i> by Bob Phillips is a good resource for understanding differences.\u00a0\u00a0 I also strongly recommend a study of spiritual gifts in Romans 12:1-9, 1 Corinthians 12:1-31, Ephesians 4:1-16, and 1 Peter 4:10-11, because each of your ladies has at least one spiritual gift for the purpose of loving and serving others.\u00a0 What a blessing it would be for them to place that gift in God\u2019s service.<\/p>\n<p>The third step is prayer, and this step must permeate all the steps; but we must especially pray that God would lead in involving more ladies in His service.\u00a0 Praying for help is definitely one of the things Christ told us to pray for.\u00a0 \u201cPray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest\u201d (Matthew 9:38). \u00a0Ask God for ladies to help with specific needs.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about serving others . . . your serving these potential servants of Christ and their serving others.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:25px;width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5683","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5693,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5683\/revisions\/5693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}