MONTH 3

The Vehicle for Lay Involvement:

Start a Pastor’s class for new
people and those whose gifts are
not known.
The Pastor’s Breakfast / Lunch or
once a month informational
meeting.
 WHY: Pastor’s breakfast?
• A Pastor must have a vehicle
through which a new person
can be discipled - involved in
ministry within the local
church.

• The best method is to offer a

pastor’s breakfast during the
Sunday School hour.
 MONTH 3
Lay Involvement through
the Pastor’s Meal.
New families are invited to attend the pastor’s
breakfast where they have opportunity to:

1. Make friends with the pastor’s and other

key families.
2. Hear about why we are
Christians and not of another
faith. (Give them an
opportunity to receive Christ)

3. Hear the pastor’s vision for

the church and reaching the
city for Christ….
This is given in such a way that the visiting
family will want to be a part of what the
church is doing and agree to come for the next
eight weeks to the pastor’s breakfast to find
out about this process.
4. Inform the visitor that God has a plan for
their life and desires to use them in the
ministry of the church.
 Purpose

1. Make sure visitors are saved.

2. Accomplish discipleship and

the laws of growth.

3. Coordinate the outreach and

follow-up programs of the
church.
7 Laws of 7 (Laws of Growth)

7 Impressions (Pastor & Outreach L.)

7 Touches of love (Past. Care/Group L.)

7 Contacts (Secretary-helps & services)

• 7 Friends (Fellowship Coordinator)

• 7 Weeks to find a position in the church

(Pastor/Teacher)
• 7 “Leads” for the church to reach (Secretary-
helps & service and Outreach Leader)

• 7 Months of tracking (Pastor)

 Seven Leadership Positions of Pastor’s class also
has seven key positions for the whole church.

1. Administrative/Chairman (Administration Gift)

2. Teachers (Teaching Gift)

3. Secretaries (Helps & Service Gift)

4. Treasurer (Helps & Service Gift)

5. Fellowship Coordinator (Prophetic Gift)

6. Group Leaders/Pastor (Encouragement Gift)

7. Outreach Leader (Evangelism or Mercy
Gifts)
Church Plants or churches which do not have a
Sunday school hour can opt to have a Friday
Fun Night in place of the pastor’s breakfast.
• The Purpose and Goals for
“Friday Fun Night” remain the
same as the Pastor’s Breakfast.

• The activity is all that changes.

• The point is to HAVE FUN and tie

new people into the church.

• But a time during the week

needs to set aside to follow the
agenda of the Pastor’s breakfast.
 Welcome to
Pastor’s Breakfast
•By: How to implement the Pastor’s
Breakfast or Pastor’s Meal.
•
•By:
•Dr. Owen Weston
 Our Pastor
Dr. Owen Weston would
like to WELCOME YOU TO
“PASTOR’S BREAKFAST”
What you will learn in this Pastor’s meal:
1. Explain Why “This” Church, our
Vision.
2. Help us Christians defend “Why
we are Christian and not Muslim,
Hindu or anything else”
3. Why God leaves us here – What
He wants each of us individually
to do.
4. How can we get involved and “do
this”.
 1
•WHY “THIS”
CHURCH?

•Our Vision
(video presentation)
 2
Why I am a
Christian?
And not…
A Hindu
A Muslim
or
Anything
else!
 John 3:16
For God so loved
the world that He
gave His only son
that whosoever
believes in Him
will not perish
but have eternal
life.
 For God so loved
the world that He
gave His only Son
that whosoever
believes in Him will
not perish but have
eternal life.
5 Key Points
The Hand
 These 5 points are seen when
you put them on your 5 fingers
 Lets start with heaven or
eternal life = “little finger”

•Heaven is a free gift

•Cannot be earned or
deserved
Man or the world= “the good for
nothing finger” or ring finger

•Man is a sinner
•All have sinned
•No way he can make
it to heaven
 The “tallest finger” = God

•He is just, He
punishes sinners
•He cannot accept
man’s sin in heaven
•God though is a
merciful God
The index or “most important
finger” = Jesus

•God allowed Jesus

to take our place
•Jesus was the only
one who could take
our place
 The “fat finger” = faith

•Believe =Head faith

• or Heart faith
 It’s not “head faith”
that saves us
but “heart faith.” Check book Ill.
 3
•WHY GOD PUT
ME HERE?
• What am I suppose to do?
• To know what God wants me to
do, all I need to know is what
has He gifted me to do.

• God does not give away junk!

• If He has given me a gift it is

important, and it must be what
He expects me to be involved in
doing!
•What gifts has
He given you?

•Lets take
inventory?
• If this is your first day please
take this inventory evaluation.

• The rest of us will continue

our study of God’s gifts He has
given to us:
•GOD’S GIFTS
TO ME:
• We now teach on the Spiritual
gifts as we did on the
Wednesday or Sunday night.
• It normally takes 3 to 4 weeks of
attending Pastor’s meal before
they have gone through the 7
Functional gifts.
• We do mention in brief, about
the 5-Fold, and Manifestation
Gifts, but for discipling we focus
on the 7 Functional gifts.
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We involve the laity in training in the
Team they choose by their passion

But we give them a position on that

team according to their gifts.

NO LAITY SHOULD BE ASKED TO

SERVE IN ANY POSITION UNTIL
THEY HAVE HAD TRAINING FOR
THAT TASK!
 Key Points of Month 3
1. A church must have a vehicle
to involve laity in ministry for
discipling to take place.
2. A “pastor’s meal” is the best
method for doing this.
3. A pastor’s meal offers friends,
follow-up, leads, commitment
and importance.
 Key Points of Month 3
4. Four areas are covered in this
pastor’s meal: Church’s Vision,
Evangelism training (conversion),
Spiritual gifts discovery and
training, and discipleship through
lay involvement.
 Month 4
Making the Church Like Heaven
on Earth: The law of first
impressions and initial contact
ministry. The closest thing to
heaven on earth should be your
church!