The Board may appoint a discerning group to adjust the pattern of A Guide for Doing Prayerful Discernment to a totally different calendar framework suitable for your church. To discern God s will on a vital question for your church. To systematically utilize Sanctuary, House, and Closet to involve everyone in total-church discernment. The plan is suitable for a congregation of any size and for judicatories, both of which have utilized it. Short of embarking upon an entire year of discernment, this paper features many discernment principles that are essential in the general practice of prayerful discernment.
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The most important committee in the church is The Committee on Lay Leadership. This committee is charged with identifying and developing Christian spiritual leaders. If the committee nominates spiritually-oriented persons for all positions, instead of nominating perfunctory people who will offer perfunctory leadership, the church will thrive. This paper is focused on how this committee works as a Prayer-Nominating Committee that meets every month as a prayer group and makes their nominations in the context of prayerful discernment. A second focus is on assuring that the committee itself, is made up of spiritually mature persons who are equipped to make prayerful nominations of spiritual leaders.