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Ministry of Helps Handbook, Revised and Updated: How to be Totally Effective Serving in the Local Church
Having Enough Loving People Serving Churches need the ministry of helps. The time has come for church members to begin doing the work of the ministry, and let the pastors return to doing what the have been called to do–be a spokesmen for Jesus. Finally, a book filled with useful information The Ministry of Helps Handbook by Buddy Bell is a unique combination of teaching, seminar guidelines and answers to often-asked questions. This useful and complete book provides pastors, and members with the tools and insights to restore the ministry of helps to their church. Some Features
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 11, 2010
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January 5, 2021
A friend gave me a copy of this and by the time I was half-way done I knew I would be buying a dozen more to give away to members of my church.
For most lay-people in contemporary evangelical churches (including full-gospel, independent, Reformed, mega, Baptist, emerging, and Charismatic), church life has turned increasingly into a spectator sport in which teams of professionals or especially devoted volunteers perform all of the platform, support, outreach, and behind the scenes work. This explains why so few Christians make any impact for the Kingdom. They simply don't think they need to do or be anything but "believing" spectators. They don't realize that by staying in the stands instead of getting into the game, they are spiritually flabby, soft and perhaps possess only a nominal faith in Christ as they have avoided the kind of involvement that strengthens one's faith.
Some, sadly, do not realize that they are needed in the Kingdom, while others assume they require a specific calling from God before they can do anything. They never learn that the need is the calling.
Dr. Buddy Bell, an anointed layman who has spent his entire life in "helps" ministries... and in doing so has contributed to some of the most successful ministries and large congregations in the United States, addresses these misconceptions and problems head on with this powerful book, one that has now run into several editions. Truthfully, I wish I had found this book a decade earlier. It's Biblical approach to the challenge to involve oneself in the unglamorous but entirely needful ministry of helps in one's local church, coupled with Dr. Bell's own excellent stories and anecdotes from experience as a helpful layman, fills the reader with a renewed vision for the dignity of the ministry of helps. Laymen or women in search of direction for their Church life or who simply know they are called to get involved but always assumed one needed to be called to a specific public or platform ministry for it to be important would greatly benefit from reading this book.
Are all Christians called by God?
The answer, according to Dr. Bell, is an unequivocal YES. Because if there are needs in the church, there is a calling for anointed lay people to meet those needs.
Read this book. And buy a copy for a friend at church who is looking for direction.
This book is HIGHLY recommended for pastors, helpers, anyone in the church who is involved, and for anyone in the church that knows they should be but is still trying to hear the call... this book is calling your name!
For most lay-people in contemporary evangelical churches (including full-gospel, independent, Reformed, mega, Baptist, emerging, and Charismatic), church life has turned increasingly into a spectator sport in which teams of professionals or especially devoted volunteers perform all of the platform, support, outreach, and behind the scenes work. This explains why so few Christians make any impact for the Kingdom. They simply don't think they need to do or be anything but "believing" spectators. They don't realize that by staying in the stands instead of getting into the game, they are spiritually flabby, soft and perhaps possess only a nominal faith in Christ as they have avoided the kind of involvement that strengthens one's faith.
Some, sadly, do not realize that they are needed in the Kingdom, while others assume they require a specific calling from God before they can do anything. They never learn that the need is the calling.
Dr. Buddy Bell, an anointed layman who has spent his entire life in "helps" ministries... and in doing so has contributed to some of the most successful ministries and large congregations in the United States, addresses these misconceptions and problems head on with this powerful book, one that has now run into several editions. Truthfully, I wish I had found this book a decade earlier. It's Biblical approach to the challenge to involve oneself in the unglamorous but entirely needful ministry of helps in one's local church, coupled with Dr. Bell's own excellent stories and anecdotes from experience as a helpful layman, fills the reader with a renewed vision for the dignity of the ministry of helps. Laymen or women in search of direction for their Church life or who simply know they are called to get involved but always assumed one needed to be called to a specific public or platform ministry for it to be important would greatly benefit from reading this book.
Are all Christians called by God?
The answer, according to Dr. Bell, is an unequivocal YES. Because if there are needs in the church, there is a calling for anointed lay people to meet those needs.
Read this book. And buy a copy for a friend at church who is looking for direction.
This book is HIGHLY recommended for pastors, helpers, anyone in the church who is involved, and for anyone in the church that knows they should be but is still trying to hear the call... this book is calling your name!
March 5, 2024
This was an excellent book that spelled out how to help your church ministry thrive through the ministry of helps. It tells how important that particular ministry is and that it is just as vital as the five-fold ministry. As believers; specifically in a local assembly, it takes all of us functioning in our various roles to keep the body (the church) working properly. I love this simple, but effective teaching.
September 8, 2018
This book I great! It made me change my view on what I should be doing for my ministry. We did a study in the whole book and it was awesome!
September 14, 2024
Highly recommend for anyone in ministry.
November 16, 2013
Read this text for LCU course Ministry of Helps. Churches need us, the ministry of helps! This book helped me to become more aware and enlightened about helping! Your willing heart to help is so useful in your church. I love the information about ushering, greeting, nursery workers, counselors & all the other ways of helping. Dr. Bell has shared insight, knowledge & wisdom for you, the helpers at church & in church. There are easy to apply instructions to transform the helps ministry, anointed teaching to improve faithfulness, Biblical basis for the ministry of helps, answers to common questions. I loved it!
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