Phillip Rice

As I share about the ministry of Missionary Care, I often talk about how our care team is helping serve our missionary families. But who exactly is our care team? Well, all of us at BMA Global. Every individual serving through our missions ministry is on the care team.

The entire context of the New Testament is one of multiplication. All healthy believers and churches will multiply. The multiplication of disciples is crucial in the formula for multiplication and that places the onus on the leader to be making disciples. If pastors and leaders are not spiritually healthy than unhealthy, with no multiplication, is what will be normal in churches as well.

Every so often, my wife and I sit down and assess our budget. We ask important questions like, “Are we disciplined and faithful with our current budget?” and, “Do we need to make some changes to address current realities?” But the most important question we ask is this: “Does our budget reflect our overall goals and purposes?”

Recently, we heard author and leadership developer Mac Lake state that pastors often rush to present the solution and neglect to expose the problem. Until a few years ago, we had not truly understood the problem and lack of theological training, particularly among those in the majority world. According to researcher David Livermore, there are more than three million untrained pastors in the world.