Cell Leader's Responsibilities
The cell leader, like all Christian leaders has four basic responsibilities:
1. Keep yourself in good spiritual condition.
A spiritual leader cannot take others to a place of maturity that he
himself has not yet reach. Your own relationship with God must come first in
your life. You need to be continually strengthened in order to carry out your
ministry. This includes daily Bible study and prayer as well as
regular participation in corporate worship, instruction, and fellowship. It
also means deepening your spiritual relationship with your spouse and your
family.
2. Set a Christ-like example.
A spiritual leader is called to be a model of Christ to those under his
authority. You are responsible to show your cell members by your own character,
deportment, speech, behaviour, and so forth, what it means to be mature
disciple of Jesus Christ. This can be done only as you keep yourself in good
spiritual condition.
3. Shephered those in your care.
Cell group leadership is pastoral ministry on a small scale. you are
responsible, within the limits of the authority delegated to you by your pastor,
to do in all in your power to feed, protect, care for, disciple, and edify those
in your cell. You are called to be spiritual father or mother to new babes in
the faith as well as an older brother or sister to those who are past
spiritual infancy. God has given you the privilege of actually helping people to
serve Him.
4. Equip the cell members for ministry.
You should constantly be seeking to aid the group members in discovering,
developing, and putting to use their spiritual gifts. This means helping the
cell members find an opportunity, a place in the ministry of the local church
where they can become a truly functioning member of the body of Christ.
KEEP IN SHAPE! SET AN EXAMPLE! SHEPHERD! EQUIP!
1. a. What does Paul instruct Timothy, a young Christian leader, to do
in
1 Timothy 4:16?
b. What would be the result if Timothy followed these
instructions?
2. What, in your opinion, does it mean to shephered people?
3. What are the goals of spiritual equipping according to Ephesians
4:11-16?
