Recently I was asked to clearly and concisely in 3-5 minutes share the motivation and methodology of Empowering Action to leaders of other Christian nonprofit economic development organizations. The request was quite last minute so I quickly assembled the bullet points below, which I pass along to you for your encouragement and edification:<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/em>Empowering Action exists to combat physical and spiritual poverty in partnership with the local church<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n We want to serve the local church. We want to build capacity within the local church to both declare and demonstrate the gospel.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is simply impossible to alleviate poverty – in its fullest sense – apart from the local church.\u201d \u2013 Church in Hard Places<\/u><\/em>, 9Marks.org<\/p>\n We do so by facilitating growth of pastors and lay leaders in three areas:<\/p>\n 1. Personal Character (Be) We find MOTIVATION<\/strong> for our mission in the passages such as these below:<\/p>\n “Keep watch over yourselves [personal character\/theological competency] and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God [ministry capacity], which He purchased with His own blood.” (Acts 20:28)<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>\u201cAnd David shepherded them with integrity of heart (character); with skillful hands (competency\/capacity) he led them.\u201d (Psalm 78:72) <\/em><\/p>\n Our METHODOLOGY<\/strong> to accomplish our mission focuses on 4 Core Competencies (In-house initiatives):<\/p>\n 1. Acts 242<\/strong> \u2013 A Systematic Leadership Discipleship Process for members of our church network Strength of our Approach:<\/strong><\/p>\n Theology is global. Theology dictates our methodology, so while contextualization of practices is necessary, biblical principles are universal applicable.<\/p>\n Threats to be Avoided:<\/strong><\/p>\n Without prioritizing ministry regarding character and theological competency, we can actually inadvertently affirm negative behavior and bad theology, by helping a ministry to grow numerically. (Prosperity gospel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I was asked to clearly and concisely in 3-5 minutes share the motivation and methodology of Empowering Action to leaders of other Christian nonprofit economic development organizations. The request was quite last minute so I quickly assembled the bullet points below, which I pass along to you for your encouragement and edification: \u00a0Empowering Action […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ea-development"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/blog-mms-600x300.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/blog-mms-600x300.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Theological Competency (Know)
\n3. Ministry Capacity (Do)<\/p>\n
\n2. Abundant Life<\/strong> – Church-based 16-week Poverty Alleviation Program
\n3. Genesis<\/strong> – Church-based Family Life Initiative, training churches to equip parents to raise a generation that both knows the Lord and the things he has done (Judges 2:10)
\n4. Church-based Savings and Credit Associations<\/strong> (Implementation 2018) \u2013 While Abundant Life addresses finances at an individual\/family level (the theology of work, household budgeting, small business practices and personal savings), Savings Groups will facilitate ministry at a corporate church (and community) level<\/p>\n