Group
Questions
Scripture
Care for All
Do the current roles, responsibilities and processes, aim to care for everyone as a purposeful objective?
1 Cor 12:25-26
Care for All
Are unbelievers cared for as part of this ministry?
Luke 10:27-37, Gal 6:10
Care for All
Are people encouraged to make their relatives a priority?
2 Cor. 12:14, 1 Tim. 5:4, 8, 16
Care for All
Are spiritual needs, particularly heart unbelief, met daily?
Hebrews 3:12-13
Care for All
As a focus of your ministry, are emotional needs met?
2 Corinthians 1:3-4, 13:11
Care for All
As a focus of your ministry, are physical needs met?
Matthew 25:35-40
Care for All
As a planned part of your ministry, do you care for all widows or others that don’t have relatives to care for them?
1 Timothy 5:3, James 1:27
Care for All
Is transparency such as confessing sins encouraged within your ministry?
2 Corinthians 1:8-9, James 5:16
Care for All
Does your ministry encourage and promote unity among members?
1 Cor 12:25, 2 Cor 13:11
Care for All
Does your ministry emphasize reliance on God for individual acts of service?
1 Peter 4:11
Care for All
Does your ministry encourage a use or practice of the individual’s unique spiritual gifting?
Romans 12:8
Care for All
Are the sick and suffering prayed for in your ministry?
James 5:13-16
Care for All
Are those you serve encouraged to follow Matthew 18:15-16 in resolving personal offenses and to avoid gossip?
Matthew 18:15-16, 2 Cor 12:20
Care for All
Is everyone prayed for?
Eph 6:18
Fellowship
Do you encourage others to be in fellowship with our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit?
1 John1:3-4
Fellowship
Do you encourage fellowship within the Body of Christ?
1 John 1:3
Fellowship
Are you motivating the Body to testify to others of the good things God is doing in their lives?
Phm 1:6, 1 Peter 3:15
Fellowship
Is there a focus on encouraging and building up one another?
1Thess 5:11
Fellowship
Do you encourage others to have the same care for one another regardless of the views/exercise of spiritual gifts so that there are no divisions?
1Cor 12:24-26
Fellowship
Do you encourage love for each other to increase and overflow?
1Thess 3:12
Fellowship
Do you encourage the importance of meeting together corporately?
Heb 10:25
Fellowship
Do you encourage one another to be of like minded?
Phil. 2:2
Fellowship
Do you exhort the importance of serving one another?
Gal 6:2
Fellowship
Make every effort to edify/encourage?
Rom 14:19
Fellowship
Do you seek to encourage others to guard against tearing each other down?
Gal 5:15
Fellowship
Do you seek to have unity in being sympathetic with a tender heart and humble mind?
1Pet 3:8
Fellowship
Do you seek to cultivate joy as part of fellowship?
1 John 1:4
Prayer
Is there a time set aside for worship, praise, petition, and thanksgiving to God in prayer?
Phil. 4:6-7, Luke 11:2
Prayer
Is there a time spent in prayer for each other, the widowed, the sick & the troubled at CFS?
James 5:13, 1 Tim. 2:1
Prayer
Is everyone prayed for every day?
Ephesians 6:18
Prayer
Is there a time spent in prayer for the elders, deacons, leaders of ministries, that the Word of God would be glorified, spread rapidly, and have liberty to change hearts and encourage His people?
2 Thess. 3:1, 1 Tim 2:1
Prayer
Is there a time spent in prayer for missions, and that the Lord would send out more workers?
Matthew 9:38
Prayer
Is there time spent in prayer for the governments and authorities of our country?
1 Timothy 2:1-2
Prayer
To be “steadfast” in prayer, joyful in hope, patient in affliction, pray without ceasing, don’t give up?
1 Thess 5:17, Luke 18:1, Rom. 12:12
Prayer
To pray for our “enemies” and those who are hard to get along with at home, at church, and at work?
Matthew 5:44
Prayer
To be alert, daily pray in secret, search our hearts, repent of sin and confess to others when necessary?
Matt. 6:6, Mark 13:33, Acts 8:22
Prayer
To pray everywhere, on all occasions, coming boldly to God to ask for His mercy and grace?
1 Timothy 2:8, Hebrews 4:16
Prayer
To pray seriously for all the Lord’s people, without anger or disputing, lifting holy hands, in the power of the Holy Spirit, for God’s daily protection against temptation?
Matt. 26:41, Eph. 6:18, 1 Peter 4:7
Prayer
To pray without doubting, according to Jesus’ example, forgiving others as Christ forgave us?
Luke 11:4, Mark 11:22-24, Col. 3:13
Worship
Does your ministry consider One God the Father and One Lord Jesus Christ as the only ones you worship?
Matt 4:10 ; 1Cor 8:6
Worship
Does your ministry labor to equip saints in identifying and killing idols which may compete with worship of God?
Rom 1:21-25 2 Cor 6:16-17 Col 3:5 1 Jn 5:20-21
Worship
Does your ministry consider that worship should take place in everything you do and wherever you may be gathered?
Acts 2:42-47 Rom 12:1 1Cor 3:16 Col 3:17
Worship
In your ministry, do you seek to portray God as being worthy of all our praise and worship?
Rev 4:10-11
Worship
Is worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth based on a clear understanding if this encouraged?
John 4:23 Phil 3:3
Worship
Does your ministry teach & promote true worship that stems from the heart, flowing from a love, reverence, and awe for God?
Matt. 22:37 Heb 12:28
Worship
Does your ministry teach and cling to the truth that we worship not to pay God back, but out of a spirit of dependence and humility?
Rom 11:35-36 1Cor 14:25 Phil 3:3 Jam 4:10
Worship
Are you orderly in your worship?
1 Cor 14:40
Worship
Does your ministry include a form of worship that utilizes prayer?
Phil 4:6
Worship
Does your ministry include a form of worship that utilizes the teaching and reading of God’s word, so that worship may be based on truth?
John 4:23 Col 3:16
Worship
Does your ministry include a form of worship that utilizes music in the form of hymns or spiritual songs?
Acts 16:25 Eph 5:19 Col 3:16 Jam 5:13
Worship
Does your ministry regularly remember Jesus’s death in the breaking of bread or remembrance service?
Acts 2:42 Acts 20:7 1Cor 11:23-26
Worship
Does your ministry include or encourage regular tithing/giving as a means of praising God?
2 Cor 9:7 1Cor 16:1-2
Evangelism
Do you prepare, equip, train, encourage or promote those in your sphere of ministry to share or defend the gospel?
1 Pet. 3:15
Evangelism
Does your ministry area attempt to reach the A) local neighborhood (Jerusalem)? B) The City or Northwest Ohio (Judea)? C) The United States (Samaria)? or D) Inter-nationally (the ends of the earth) with the gospel?
Acts 1:8
Evangelism
In dealing with the lost, is repentance and forgiveness stressed in your sphere of ministry?
Luke 24:47
Evangelism
Is your ministry consistently praying for those doing the work of an “Evangelist”?
Col. 4:2-6
Evangelism
Is your ministry consistently praying for the lost?
1 Tim.2:1-6
Evangelism
Do you promote public preaching and/or financially support workers in the harvest?
Matt. 10:7-10
Missions
Does your ministry regularly pray for missions or missionaries?
Col. 4:2-3a; Eph. 6:19
Missions
Does your ministry celebrate the handiwork of God in missions?
2Thes. 3:1; Acts 13:47
Missions
Does your ministry raise awareness of missions / missionaries?
Rom. 10:13-15
Missions
Does your ministry raise awareness of unreached or neglected people groups?
Rev. 14:6
Missions
Does your ministry regularly raise support for missions / missionaries?
1Cor. 9:14
Missions
Does your ministry periodically focus on a project for missions / missionaries?
Acts 13:2; 16:2; 16:9-10; 18:23
Missions
Does your ministry evaluate participants for giftedness in serving in missions?
Rom. 10:15; Rom. 12:6-8; Eph. 4:11
Missions
Does your ministry encourage participants to consider serving in missions?
Mark 5:19-20; 2Tim. 1:6-7
Discipleship
Have a clear testimony and are they able to share it with others? (with a very brief summary recorded)
Rev. 12:11 John 4:39
Discipleship
Have they followed the Lord in baptism?
Col 2:6-12; Matt 28:18-20
Discipleship
Learned how to lead a person to become a Christian? (E.g., identified the Roman Road verses &/or learned the use of the 4 Spiritual Laws or taken ?Sharing Jesus w/o Fear??)
Matt 28:18-20; 2Tim 4:2
Discipleship
Does your ministry direct team members to handle Scripture correctly or is there a method for insuring Biblical accuracy?
2Tim 2:2; 2Tim 3:16-17
Discipleship
Does your area of ministry provide opportunity for sharing areas of life where others are imitating/conforming to Christ? (making Him Lord of their life, having heard the Holy Spirit as He has led them into new truth)
Phil 3:17; Phil 4:9; Col 3:16-17
Discipleship
Does your ministry have a process for moving from no understanding of basic Christian principles to learning and adopting Christian practices through the power of the Holy Spirit?
1Thes 2:11-14a; Gal 5:16
Discipleship
Is there a clear process to equip others for ministry?
2 Tim 2:1-2; 2Tim 2:14-15
Discipleship
Does your ministry involve encouraging each member to use their gift for the benefit of others to cause the growth & building up of the Body in love?
Eph 4:11-16
Discipleship
Do you have a process that takes a new person from observer to worker and then worker to leader?
2Tim 3:16-17; Heb 5:11-6:1
Discipleship
Is it an energetic aim to presented everyone (i.e. ALL) mature in Christ?
Col 1:28
Teaching
Are you and your workers modeling consistent behavior with what you preach?
Rom 2:21
Teaching
As pertaining to overseers: Are you(they) able to teach?
1Ti 3:2f
Teaching
Are teachers in your ministry self-monitoring themselves and their teaching?
1Ti 4:16
Teaching
As pertains to our church, are you upholding the doctrines outlined in our Covenants of Fellowship?
1Ti 4:16
Teaching
Does your ministry have a plan in-place to recruit faithful teachers? (I.e. a plan that is defined and outlined)?
2Ti 2:2
Teaching
Are your workers, in fact, able to teach?
2Ti 2:24
Teaching
Do you have a plan in-place to train your teachers?
1Ti 4:7,8 ; 2Ti 2:24 ; 2Ti 3:16,17
Teaching
Have you made your teachers aware that they will be judged stricter by God?
Jas 3:1
Teaching
Are you and your workers mature in their knowledge of the truth?
Heb 5:12
Teaching
Have you measured in some way that your workers have grown spiritually beyond the “basics?”
Heb 5:12
Teaching
Is the goal of your teaching Christian Maturity, through biblical wisdom?
Col 1:28
Teaching
Do you have a process to measure this goal of teaching toward spiritual maturity through Biblical wisdom?
Col 1:28
Teaching
Do your workers possess the pertinent content to teach for your ministry?
1 Cor 2:2
Teaching
Do you have a process to measure the content?
1 Cor 2:2
Teaching
Do you have indicators you use to evaluate teachers are spiritually motivated in their teaching?
Rom 12:7
Teaching
Do you recruit teachers either based upon spiritual gifting rather than simply the desire to teach and serve?
1Co 12:28
Teaching
Is your teaching Christ-centered, with the goal of godliness?
1Ti 6:3
Teaching
Is curriculum evaluated based upon this goal?
1Ti 6:3
Teaching
Do you review all material being used so that it contains sound doctrine and no false teaching?
Act 15:1
Teaching
Are you building disciples by pointing them to the life of Christ and his teachings?
Mat 28:20
Teaching
Do you have a working definition of how discipleship building occurs?
Mat 28:20
Teaching
Are your workers devoted to the Word?
Acts 2:42
Teaching
Do you evaluate lesson plans to see that they are biblically centered? (i.e. the lessons have a foundation on God’s Word and not upon secular reasoning and pragmatism.)
2 Tim 3:14,15 Col 2:2-4
Teaching
Are your teachers welcoming opportunities to teach, even as the opportunities are presented daily?
Act 5:42
Teaching
Is the public reading of scripture occurring frequently in your ministry?
1Ti 4:13
Teaching
Do you evaluate lessons to see if the scripture is being read out loud either by the teacher and/ or students, since God’s Word asks us to read it publically?
1Ti 4:13
Teaching
Are your workers trained, especially in faith and good doctrine?
1Ti 4:6
Teaching
Do you have a plan in-place to train your teachers?
1Ti 4:6
Teaching
As best as you can determine, are your workers, if employed, honoring their supervisors?
1Ti 6:1
Teaching
Do you evaluate your teachers to determine that they believe in the inspiration and usefulness of all scripture for teaching?
2Ti 3:16
Teaching
Do you evaluate lesson plans, among other attributes, for their practical applications?
2Ti 3:16
Teaching
Do you and your workers continue to teach boldly in the face of unjustified criticism, if any?
Act 5:25
Teaching
Have you seen or heard evidence that your workers are relying ultimately upon the Holy Spirit for their success when teaching?
1Co 2:13 / 1Jo 2:27
Teaching
Have you seen or heard evidence your ministry encourage parents to teach their children?
Eph 6:4
Teaching
Are we teaching that payment to teachers by their learners is spriptural?
Gal 6:6
Teaching
Is an elder in a teaching position being offered a fair wage?
1Ti 5:17 – 19
Teaching
If you’re in a position of leadership and have authority in this area, is there a process to determine a fair wage?
1Ti 5:17
Teaching
Do you and your workers have a regard for General Revelation (i.e. Nature teaches) being instructive?
1Co 11:14
Teaching
Do your teachers believe that God’s creation can be indirectly instructive in of itself?
1Co 11:14 Rom 1:18-20
Teaching
Are you and your teachers teaching out of a fullness of Christ?
Col 3:16
Teaching
Do you emphasize and observe your workers showing patience when exhorting or reproving a student?
2Ti 4:2
Teaching
Are women teachers exercising within Scriptural authority as it relates to teaching men?
1Ti 2:12
Teaching
Are your women teachers kept from situations that would make this teaching difficult to fulfill?
1Ti 2:12