Equipped for Every Good Work: Building a Gifts-Based Church - Tapa blanda

All scripture is inspired by God . . . so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Equipped for Every Good Work is a four-tool process that can help you discover and develop the spiritual gifts, spirituality types, interaction styles, and working preferences of each person in your congregation. Begun in 1988, the Profile of Congregational Leadership has been used in approximately two hundred different churches of seven denominations in settings of all shapes, sizes, locations, and racial-ethnic backgrounds. Equipped for Every Good Work is not intended as a tool to help congregations assign members to jobs on committees, boards, councils, or task forces. Instead, it is a process of discovery and discussion of the gifts, graces, and abilities of the leadership core of a local congregation. It shifts the attention off of what we do and on to who we are as called, gifted, and empowered people of God. Through self-exploration and discovery, each person can gain new insights about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, and the entire congregation can grow as a faith-forming spiritual community. Leaders--A special website (equippedforeverygoodwork.wordpress.com) provides access to all the handouts, presentation materials, reference materials, and interpretive aids.

Dan Dick is an ordained minister of The United Methodist Church serving as the Director of Connectional Ministries for the Wisconsin Annual Conference. He is a nationally known speaker andteacher, and he is the author of thirteen books.

Barbara Dick, formerly an editor for Abingdon Press, is now working freelance from Wisconsin. Her editing projects include Newscope, The Wesley Study Bible, The Abingdon Worship Annual, The Abingdon Preaching Annual, Black Church Studies, The United Methodist Music and Worship Planner, and Prepare!, all from Abingdon Press, and Joy to the World from the Women s Division of The United Methodist Church. She is coauthor with her husband Dan R. Dick of Equipped for Every Good Work: Building a Gifts Based Church. Barbara has written for the Upper Room Disciplines and recently completed work on new and revised United Methodist brochures on Communion, Baptism, Membership Vows, Grace, and others for Abingdon Press.