Rick Warren lists 10 action steps through the book of Acts to help church leaders ‘finish their race’
‘There's a direct connection between prayer and power’
4. Train every believer to preach the Good News
“Number four, we must train every believer to preach the Good News. At Pentecost, Peter had to quote Joel, the prophet, in order to explain why women were preaching at Pentecost. And here's what he says in Acts 2:14-18, ‘I will pour out my spirit on everyone, your sons and daughters will preach, your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams’ — that's intergenerational — ‘and all my servants,’ both men and women, ‘I will pour out my spirit and they will preach.’
He continued, “In 2003 at Saddleback Church, we launched an every member campaign that every member in our church would go to the mission field and plant a church. … We took the five things that Jesus did, and we called the Peace Plan: Proclaim the Good News, equip every believer and alleviate suffering — that's poverty, disease, illiteracy — and contend in prayer as we fight battles on our knees and establish churches.
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“Over seven years, I sent out 26,869 of my members to plant a church in every nation of the world. We're the only church in Christian history to plant a church in 197 nations. This was done by normal people.
“If you're a pastor, I would be honored to teach you how to do it. Your church can send missionaries around the world. You could mobilize. My goal is to help you turn an audience into an army, to turn spectators into participators, to turn consumers into contributors, and to turn members into missionaries and ministers.
