牧师如何培养领袖?
大多数牧师都谙熟心急如焚的感觉。教会中有太多的紧急事务需要处理，因此，牧师们似乎不可能做到放慢脚步、花时间来训练团队成员——即培养新的教会领袖。
然而，从以下几个原因来看，作为牧师，你必须要定期门训有长老潜质的弟兄，不管他属于本教会还是其他教会。
牧师为什么要培养领袖
1.圣经的命令
保罗在提后2:2写道，“你在许多见证人面前听见我所教训的，也要交托那忠心能教导别人的人。”提摩太后书不仅是写给提摩太一个人的，也是写给我们所有人的（罗15:4；提后3:16-17），因此每一间地方教会的牧师都应该要培训其他弟兄成为教会中能教导别人的人。
2.牧师是培养新牧师的最佳人选
培养侍奉者的最佳方法是让他们向全职侍奉者学习，从而获取实践经验、提高自身对事物的敏锐度，同时近距离了解该工作。而这些都是无法通过其它渠道获得的。
3.教会的需要
作为牧师，你需要在培养领袖方面起带头作用，不管将来这些领袖是在你的教会任长老还是去其它地方服侍。因为如果你不门训新领袖，谁会去做呢？
4.传福音给后代
牧师培养领袖也是为将来的“传教布道”做工。如果不这么做，设想你离世后，谁能担负起带领教会和宣教的责任呢？从现在起就培养新领袖，这样你不仅能向当前的会众传福音，也能把福音带给将来的人。
牧师如何培养领袖
在忙碌的服侍中，牧师怎样才能利用有限的资源，门训弟兄成为新的教会领袖呢？以下是几点实际的建议。
1. 谨慎地分享讲台。寻找各种方式，让教会中的年轻弟兄有机会上台讲道和教导。他们不一定要善于演讲，却一定要在神学上可靠、且有牧者的心肠。
2. 教导会众关心其它教会和神国度的扩展。
这样做的目的在于，让整个教会都来支持为本教会和其它教会培养牧师的计划。鼓励会众并让他们明白，这样做有长远的益处。你的鼓励和带领将会帮助会众在对待经验缺乏的年轻牧师时，会更宽容大度，更有耐心，并且会更多地为他们祷告。
3. 会众集体为其它教会以及牧师点名祷告。
4. 会众集体为福音在其它国家的传扬点名祷告。
5. 寻找机会把教导和布道的机会“让给”年轻人，例如主日学课程、公众祷告或主日的领会。指导他们去做，然后给予反馈。
6. 每周进行“主日服侍评估”。邀请参与主日公开服侍的人员对主日的服事进行评估。欢迎大家对你的主日领会和讲道发表意见。同时你要做榜样，给大家示范如何给予和接受敬虔的鼓励和批评。（建议：注重从圣经、神学和牧养方面的评估而非看重风格或依据个人喜好。要坦诚地表达意见和看法，而不要一次性给予缺乏经验的年轻牧师太多批评。总要寻找恩典的确据，确保参与者得到鼓励和建造。）
7. 在福音事工上树立榜样，与非基督徒建立关系，对年轻的基督徒进行门训。观察开始效法自己的人并着重培养他们。
8. 考虑开展牧师实习事工。
9. 大量赠送好书。当预备领袖读完一本你赠送的书后，就与他约谈，交流读书心得。
10. 当你在书房里工作或读书的时候，邀请年轻人进来，做他们自己的工作和阅读。
11. 邀请预备领袖和你一起预备讲章。
同其中一两个人探讨所要讲的经文，找出经文的大纲和要点。然后请某个人和你一起思考经文的应用。
12. 想一想在你的生活和服侍中，有哪些是可以邀请预备领袖一起参与的，例如，家庭用餐、出去办事、探访、外出讲道、参加会议。
13. 和年轻人讨论当前非敏感的教牧话题，询问他们的想法。这样做能训练他们神学思考的能力，学习像牧师那样考虑问题。这样的讨论甚至可能会让你迸发出新的见解。
How Can Pastors Raise Up Leaders?
Most pastors are all too familiar with the tyranny of the urgent. There are often so many leaks that need patching that it seems impossible to slow down and spend the time it takes to train a crew—that is, to raise up new church leaders.
Yet as a pastor, there are several reasons why you should be regularly discipling men who have the potential to serve as elders, whether in your church or another.
WHY PASTORS SHOULD RAISE UP LEADERS
1. Scripture commands it.
In 2 Timothy 2:2 Paul writes, “What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.” Since 2 Timothy was written not merely for Timothy, but for us all (Rom. 15:4, 2 Tim. 3:16-17), every pastor of a local church should train other men to be teachers in the church.
2. Pastors are best able to train other pastors.
Men training for ministry will learn best from those who are engaged in the work full-time. They’ll gain practical wisdom, personal sensitivities, and an up-close understanding of the work that they won’t get any other way.
3. The church needs it.
As the pastor, you need to take the lead in raising up leaders, whether those leaders will serve your own church as elders or go somewhere else. If you don’t disciple leaders, who will?
4. It evangelizes future generations.
A pastor can do “mission work” to the future by raising up leaders in the present. Who will lead your church and evangelize your community when you’re gone? Raise up leaders now and you get to send the gospel not just into your community, but into the future.
HOW PASTORS CAN RAISE UP LEADERS
But how can a busy pastor with thinly spread resources disciple men toward being church leaders? Here is a handful of practical suggestions.
1. Share your pulpit (carefully). Look for ways to give doctrinally and pastorally reliable younger men in your congregation opportunities to preach and teach, even if they are not practiced public speakers.
2. Teach your congregation to care about other churches and God’s broader kingdom purposes. The goal is for the church as a whole to embrace the agenda of raising up pastors both for themselves and for other churches. Encourage them that this will serve them better in the long run. This encouragement and leadership from you will help them to be more generous, prayerful, and patient with younger and less experienced men.
3. Publicly pray for other churches and pastors, by name.
4. Publicly pray for the spread of the gospel in other nations, by name.
5. Look for other opportunities to “give away” teaching and evangelism opportunities to younger men, such as Sunday School classes, public prayer, or service leading. Coach them through it. Provide feedback.
6. Hold a weekly “service review.” Invite participants in the church’s public ministry to review the events of the day. Invite feedback on your preaching and leading. Model how to give and receive godly encouragement and criticism. (Tips: Emphasize the biblical, theological, and pastoral rather than the stylistic and preferential. Be honest, but don’t pile too many critiques on top of the young and inexperienced all at once. Look for evidences of grace, and make sure participants leave feeling encouraged and built up.)
7. Set a personal example in evangelism, befriending non-Christians, and discipling younger Christians. See who begins imitating your example and specifically invest in them.
8. Consider developing a pastoral internship. Click here for some examples of church-based pastoral training.
9. Give away lots of good books. Invite developing leaders to schedule a follow-up conversation once they’ve read the book you gave them.
10. Invite younger men into your study to work and read as you do the same.
11. Invite developing leaders into your sermon preparation process. Discuss the text with one or two other men as you study. Once you’ve got the main point of the text, invite someone to think through sermon application with you.
12. Think of any windows in your life and ministry that you can invite developing leaders into: meals in your home, errands, pastoral visits, outside speaking engagements, conferences.
13. Discuss current (non-sensitive) pastoral issues with younger men and ask for their input. This will train them to think theologically and pastorally, and it might even give you fresh insight.
作者：Bobby Jamieson
Bobby Jamieson 是九标志英文事工的助理编辑，第三大道浸信会成员，毕业于美南浸信会神学院。
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