This unit discusses the need and importance in ministry of encouragement, diplomacy, and tact on the part of a leader.
Lecture Outline Detailed Outline Remember ItHe should be generous in using words to build others up.
Sunday School teachers, youth workers, music team workers, Bible study leaders, nursery staff, deacons, missionaries, and those who “work behind the scenes.”
He always had hot water ready for tea in the event of a visitor.
- How would you respond to this comment? “If you encourage people too much, that will encourage them to look to man for praise, rather than to God.”
- Why do people get discouraged?
- What are some creative ways to encourage people?
- Determine to use the power of words in encouraging one extra person each day. Briefly record the person’s response in a notebook to see the effect your words have on people. Consider making this a permanent aspect of your ministry, expanding it to those you normally encounter in a day.
- Make a list of all the people in your church who seem to be most in need of encouragement. Then plan out when and how you are going to encourage them.