The Senior Pastor’s Role as Prayer Champion This issue explores the importance of the senior pastor being engaged in the prayer ministry of a church.
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Featured Resource: Real Help for Pastors and Intercessors |
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Intercessors and Pastors
By Eddie and Alice Smith
Reviews By Sandra Higley
As you move toward building a house-of-prayer church, new challenges inevitably emerge. You are, after all, dealing with people—flawed and “under construction”! Understanding and working toward life-giving relationships between pastors and intercessors is a crucial step in establishing a viable prayer ministry.
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Tools & Tips: Building a Better Working Relationship between the Prayer Team and Church Leadership |
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By Jonathan Graf
Pray the Vision of Your Church
Prayer teams can appear to have their own agendas. One of the best ways to correct that is to plan prayer strategies around the vision or mission statement of your church. This shows leadership your clear support.
How does this work?
First, dissect the mission statement to find its main elements. Often church mission statements have “Win” (evangelism), “Grow” (discipleship), and “Send” (missions) elements. Determine what church ministries fall into each element.
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Four Guidelines for Pastors |
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By Cheryl Sacks
Pastors who desire to establish praying churches can delegate many responsibilities to their associates and prayer leaders; however, scores of pastors across the nation confirm that some things just can’t be delegated.
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The Pastor as Prayer Champion |
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By Phil Miglioratti
As a former senior pastor and a current national prayer mobilizer, I’ve had opportunity to interact with many pastors and prayer leaders. I have experienced that one of the goals of many churches is to enable its lay people to minister. That’s certainly biblical. But often the senior minister will abdicate his responsibility to those who are given leadership in a certain area.
Many ministries flourish under lay leadership. Prayer, however, has a little different dynamic. A good prayer leader can oversee and develop a great deal, and can be an invaluable asset to a church. But prayer will grow far more quickly if the senior pastor stays involved.
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By Sandy Mayle
Prayer is already a priority at First Alliance Church in Erie, Pennsylvania. The first of our eight core values as a church is “Prayer is the first work.” But as four of us traveled to our first-ever CPLN prayer conference, we anticipated the discovery of ways to help our church more fully live out this goal.
The Empowered Conference (June 2005) in Minnesota, did not disappoint. It was there we learned to identify our most vital prayer asset! We did not understand how integral this asset has been to the prayer life of our church.
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November 2005