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I love Jesus Christ and live to know him and make him known in all things together with CrossView Church primarily to the city of LA and the

TGCLA Equipping Gathering on March 12, 2013 in Glendora, CA

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March 12, 2013 TGCLA Chapter Meeting at 10AM

901 S. Grand Ave. Glendora, CA 91740 (map) - Foothill Church

Speaker: Ron Boomsma, Pastor of Sovereign Grace Pasadena

Ron Boomsma and his wife Tami moved from Michigan to Pasadena in the Summer of 1990, and it was then they were first introduced to Abundant Life Community Church (Now Sovereign Grace Pasadena) and Sovereign Grace Ministries. After attending their first Sunday meeting they knew God had provided a new church home for them. After leading a care group for several years and serving in various capacities, Ron was asked to join the leadership team. In the fall of 1998 then-Senior Pastor Mark Mullery was asked to serve another Sovereign Grace church in Fairfax, Virginia. Ron joined the pastoral staff later that year. In the Spring of 1999 Ron began to serve as the Senior Pastor of ALCC (now Sovereign Grace Pasadena). Ron and Tami are the parents of 5 wonderful children and very grateful to God for that gift.

Note on TGCLA Meetings: We are now moving to quarterly rather than bi-monthly meetings for equipping pastors to better understand the gospel and influence Los Angeles more effectively. Details of our upcoming plans for the chapter will be announced soon.

New 9Marks Journal – “Lay Elders: A User’s Guide, Part 1″ Nov-Dec 2012, 9:6

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November/December 2012, Volume 9, Issue 6

Articles

BASIC EXPECTATIONS FOR LAY ELDERS

A Job Description for Lay Elders - Okay, you’re an elder. So now what are you supposed to do? - By Jeramie Rinne

How Much Time Can a Lay Elder Give to Ministry? - Job + family + ministry = a serious time crunch for the lay elder. How can he navigate it? - By Sebastian Traeger

TRAINING LAY ELDERS

Raising Up Elders: Three Areas to Address - How can you raise up elders for your church? Train men in content, character, and competence. - By Mike McKinley

Raising Up Elders: Four Foundational Principles - Ever feel like you have no business playing teacher because you’re still a student? The gospel reminds us that God’s power is made perfect in our weakness. - By Garrett Kell

EQUIPPING LAY ELDERS

Four Ways to Equip New Elders - To set your new elder up for success, get him a brother, some books, and a budget—then put him on a billboard. - By Garrett Kell

Besetting Sins of Lay Elders - What Demas, Judas, the Pharisees, and King Saul teach us about how (not!) to serve as elders. - By Steve Boyer

How Pastor Mark Passes Out Authority - Giving away authority is one of the best ways to grow leaders and a gospel culture in a local church. Here’s a profile of a pastor who does it well. - By Jonathan Leeman

Audio

Contact Evangelism with Mack Stiles and Friends - How pushy should we be in our evangelism? Do we have to earn the right to share the gospel? Mack Stiles and a few friends discuss.

Membership as Citizenship by Jonathan Leeman - Church membership is different and more important than you think, says Jonathan Leeman in this 9Marks Workshop message.

TGCLA Pastors and Church Leaders Encouragement Meeting on 11/6 in Pasadena (invite a pastor-friend)

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We’ll have our pastors and leaders meeting for encouragement Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at Sovereign Grace in Pasadena at 10AM (1530 E. Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91104). We’ll be meeting in a new room there so watch for signage or directions. You can text me at 213-537-8714 or call me if you get lost.

Again, I’ll be giving away quite a few more books than normal. Hope to see you brothers there. Feel free to invite other pastors and church leaders.
In Christ,
PJ

Your pastoral ministry will be ruined. It’s just a matter of time.

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“Almost every one of us knows someone who used to be in the ministry. Almost all of us know someone who shouldn’t be in the ministry. And every minister knows at least one other minister he does not want to be like. But the sad news for ministers is: regardless of your age or your education or your experience, it is almost inevitable that you will become the kind of minister that you don’t want to be today. It’s important then to address the almost inevitable ruin of every minister and how to avoid it.” – Donald Whitney

Listen to the whole message here.

TGCLA Pastors/Leaders Encouragement Meeting Next Tuesday, July 3 in Pasadena at 10am

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TGCLA Pastors/Leaders Encouragement Meeting Next Tuesday, July 3 in Pasadena at 10am

If you can’t make it please let us know you’re still alive, you still love Jesus Christ, and how we can pray for you, your family, and your church. We’ll have pastors at the meeting praying for your prayer requests that you email back to me.

We are meeting at:

William Carey International University
Latourette Building
1530 Elizabeth Street
Pasadena, CA 91104


What a typical meeting looks like:

10:00am – Meet and greet

10:10am – Welcome and announcements and book give away

10:15am – Sing

10:20 – Message from the Word

10:50 – break

11:00 – Q & A and discussion of message

11:20-11:35 – Share prayer requests among tables

11:35-12:00 – Pray with your table for each other

12:00-12:10 – Sing and closing prayer

What does a TGCLA Chapter Meeting Generally Look Like?

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  • 10:00am – Meet and greet
  • 10:10am – Welcome and announcements and book give away
  • 10:15am – Sing
  • 10:20 – Message from the Word
  • 10:50 – break
  • 11:00 – Q & A and discussion of message
  • 11:20-11:35 – Share prayer requests among tables
  • 11:35-12:00 – Pray with your table for each other
  • 12:00-12:10 – Sing and closing prayer

The goal is to encourage the pastors and church leaders with prayer, the Word, and friendships. We want to spark new friendships and gospel partnerships and strengthen established ones. So come, invite your fellow pastor friends, and then plan on eating lunch with someone after the meeting. We try to meet every other month. See the events page to know what is going on and when.

What to Say to Non-Committal Church Attenders

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Jonathan Leeman has sound advice. He helps you think about how well you know the person, why one should join a church, and then responding to 5 different reasons people give for not joining a church (I’m committed elsewhere, I’ve been burned in the past, I don’t trust the leadership, I don’t agree with the statement of faith, it’s not in the bible).

The article has much more. Read the whole thing.

Top 10 Mistakes Preachers Make

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From David Murray:

1. Cramming: Squeezing all you have ever studied about the Bible over the years into 30 minutes.

2. Skimming: Taking too many verses and simply skimming over the surface of the text, teaching nothing that someone with average intelligence would not have derived from the text themselves.

3. Floating: The preacher says many things that relate to the text, floating or hovering above the text, but fails to show how they are anchored in the text.

4. Proof-texting: Including lots and lots of texts from all over the Bible, and sometimes diverting hearers by expounding the proof texts as much as the sermon text.

5. Quoting: Too many quotes from commentators, theologians, and other preachers from the past and the present.

6. Lecturing: It’s difficult to define the difference between preaching and lecturing, but you know it when you see it/hear it. It’s about passion, eye-contact, persuasion, urgency, etc.

7. Assuming: Our own over-familiarity with the text results in us assuming that our hearers know the background of the text, the meaning of basic key words and concepts, etc. May also result in Mach 7 preaching speeds. And don’t assume your hearers are all converted either.

8. Confusing: Hearers are left confused usually because of a lack of structure or too complicated a structure (main points, sub-points, etc.); or sometimes there is a good structure, but it’s not sufficiently highlighted and emphasized so that hearers know where they’ve been, where they are, and where they are going.

9. Spraying: Lots and lots of data, but no single dominant thought; it’s the difference between a shotgun and a rifle.

10. Complicating: Instead of explaining the text, a preacher can actually make it more obscure. Usually involves words too big, sentences too long, concepts too abstract, language too philosophical/theological.

Read the whole thing.

HT: Patrick Schreiner

Trellis and the Vine Workshop Session 1 – Introduction (Tuesday, October 18, 2011 – 9:15am)

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From the Trellis and the Vine Workshop in LA:

“If you invest deeply in the individual, you never know what God’s going to do through them.”

Col asks now, how can we apply the apprenticeship mentality to every member of the church? How can God use them to multiply the work through them? That’s what vinegrowers is about.

Aim:

  • “Equip you to equip disciples as disciple-makers.”
  • “To develop a disciple-making vs. program culture”
  • “Fresh vision of the Christian life.”
  • “Fresh vision of pastoral ministry”
  • We want you to get the “pastor-as-trainer” mentality.

Questions and expectations:

  • How do keep from drifting into a program-centered mentality?
  • What does a pastoral team look like that has this disciple-making mentality?

How do we get the uninvolved to the involved?