Accrediting Ministry Teams in Xenos Christian Fellowship Accrediting Ministry Teams in Xenos By Dennis McCallum At Xenos, we believe in individual initiative in ministry under the leadership of the Holy Spirit. The church leadership is not here to restrict ministry or to control it, but to facilitate it. At the same time, for a variety of reasons, the church is, and should be, limited in the number and type of ministries it supports.
Information is another bottleneck.
If hundreds of ministries want to inform the other members of what they are doing, we can end up in a maelstrom of information that deadens interest. Soon all our meetings could contain an interminable list of announcements that turns everyone off. Some people are moved in their heart to tackle ministries for which they are entirely unqualified. It's easy to underestimate how difficult some ministries will be, and we need evidence that the individual or group that tackles a job has some prospect of success. Finally, each church has to determine what their particular vision and mission are, and ministries that expect substantial church support must be in harmony with that mission and that vision.