Todd Engstrom:
In obedience to the command of Jesus to make disciples (Matthew 28), our staff is a discipleship structure before it is an organizational structure. Just as we hire staff with the aim to develop them, we expect that the aim of each staff person is to develop others. To put it simply, a staff role is for the purpose of making disciples. We don’t hire people primarily to do the tasks of ministry and therefore increase our staff to accomplish tasks. Instead, we hire people “to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ” (Ephesians 4:12). We hire to increase our disciple-making capacity.It’s awesome to see other Churches who are getting the vision. The role of a pastoral staff is to replicate what they know into the congregation so they can repeat that process in the community.
