Leadership Training Overview

By Austin Gardner

1. What is the greatest weakness in “Church Planting” around the world today?
   • No trained national leadership
   • A lack of funds to build the buildings
   • Hardness of the hearts of people around the world
   • No one answer

2. How many strong indigenous churches will the normal church planting missionary be able to plant during his missionary tenure?
   • One
   • From two to five
   • Eight
   • In excess of 50

3. Under normal conditions on the foreign mission field who will take the missionary’s place when he goes on furlough after four years?
   • A national pastor or leader that the missionary himself has trained
   • A national pastor or leader imported from a Bible College or different ministry
   • Another North American Missionary
   • The missionary will not be able to take a furlough since no one is available to take his work

4. Why should great care be taken not to give money to nationals?
   • They will become dependent
   • Money will ruin a good man
   • Nationals lack the character to deal with having money
   • The same reason care should be taken in giving money to an American missionary

5. Why do so many fail at leadership training?
   • The lack of character among the nationals
   • They do not understand the importance of training leaders
   • They have never seen leadership training modeled
   • All of the above

6. What order did our Lord Jesus follow in establishing his ministry the church here in this world?
   • People then buildings and finally leaders
   • Buildings, then people and finally leaders
   • Leaders then buildings and finally people
   • Leaders then people and finally buildings

7. What attitude do we typically see in the national believers?
   • A great lack of character and ability
   • A desire to do the work but they need to know why and how to do what they want to do
   • Interested, desirous but without the natural or spiritual ability to do the work
   • Impossible to answer since it is different on every field

8. What is the missionary’s greatest weakness in the development of leaders?
   • Doesn’t know how to do so
   • Can’t find good human material to work with
   • Very able and excited to do the work and using all of his abilities to build a church for Jesus
   • Different with every person

9. The key ingredient to leadership development is
   • Knowledge
   • Practice
   • With-ness
   • Wisdom

10. A missionary’s success should be determined by
    • The number of souls he sees saved
    • The number of indigenous churches he plants
    • Faithfulness to God or sticking by the stuff
    • Training national leaders that can carry on the work after his departure

11. What is discipleship?
    • An advanced new converts class
    • A series of lessons that grounds the new convert in basic Bible doctrine and helps to establish him as a faithful Christian
    • A specialized training method to prepare Christians for different ministry responsibilities
    • Life on life personal involvement in the life of another that carries him forward to full maturity in Christ

12. What should be the missionary’s priority goal be for each term?
    • Win as many souls to the Lord as he can
    • Plant an indigenous church
    • Start a Bible College
    • Train leaders and especially “leaders of leaders”