Equipping pastors to transform and lead their church in Jesus' mission
to make disciples.
Then Jesus came to them and said,
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
– Mt 28:18-20
EQUIPPING PASTORS TO ENLIST, ENABLE & EMPOWER DISCIPLE-MAKERS
Take your leadership to a new level
Weekly Group Coaching
Weekly LIVE online
group coaching and Q+A
—spurring action, addressing challenges, providing support, peer accountability, inspiration, and encouragement, as you implement––we are in this together, under God.
Online Action Learning
12 practical modules to support and equip you as you lead the church culture transformation— as you create and implement your biblical plan for reshaping your ministry around disciple‑making.
Online Mastermind Group
Exclusive access to our private Facebook group.
Submit your practical exercises and action drafts to get peer and coach feedback before implementing 'for real' at church. It's a place to encourage and spur each other on as peers.
LIVE events
LIVE events.
Both online and in‑person.
Go higher, deeper and wider. Refuel inspiration. Reset the challenge. Be heart level encouraged.
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Watch out for news on LIVE events!
Too much to do.
Not enough time.
No time to fix it.
Is church feeling a bit out of control?
There's so much going on. Too much to do. Not enough time and too few to help. Your schedule is overloaded (at least the one in your head). The daily grind just to get the regular weekly activities organized, is enough to give you heart palpitations. Too many conflicting priorities, needs to meet, administration to catch up on?
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Is your ministry feeling unfruitful and frankly, painful?
No one's too keen on helping out, much less committed enough to be discipled. Everyone's life is simply too busy.
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Are you stuck and feeling like you've had enough?
Apart from feeling frustrated and unfruitful, you're lacking support and feeling isolated. You desperately want to transform the culture of your church. You pray that it will be characterized by loving, sacrificial, wholehearted discipleship. But, you're stuck!
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Are you feeling the urgency?
You feel the sense of urgency. Rightly so. Establishing a multiplying disciple-making culture in your church is the primary project in your church.
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So what are you going to do next?
But, what is your disciple-making strategy? How are you going to make it happen, under God?
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Oilstone equips, encourages and supports you as you implement change to build a healthy disciple‑making church.
Making disciples.
Then Jesus came to them and said,
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
– Matthew 28:18-20
Why?
God’s goal for creation is to glorify his Son in the midst of the people he has rescued and transformed.
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What?
A forgiven sinner who is learning Christ in repentance and faith.
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How?
It's God’s work, achieved as his word and Spirit work through the activity of Christian disciples and in the hearts of those they speak to.
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Who?
Pastors by their preaching, equipping and example, equip every Christian to be a Christ-learner who helps others to learn Christ.
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Where?
It happens in every facet and activity of our churches, through our churches, and it also happens in every corner of this present darkness.
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So you want to build a disciple-making culture in your church...
Are you actually serious? Are you ready?
Are you willing to make the changes?
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So what's stopping you?
What's getting in your way?
Will it really make any difference?
You've already got too much to do!
What do you need to do to break the relentless 7-day church cycle? Something needs to change. 'Good eats great for dinner'! Leading people means leading yourself first. Is what you are doing now the greatest thing you could be doing for the Kingdom?
Why is leadership critical?
Changing culture is hard. Bottomline––it's a people thing. You need to know where you're leading people, what's required to get them there, and most importantly, how to bring them along with you.
You don't have enough good,
reliable people to help!
So what are you doing to change that? There are people in your church who want to grow in knowledge and Christlikeness. How are you growing them as disciples? As they grow, they want to serve more, lead more, help more.
Why do you need a strategy?
You need to start new programs. You need to stop some old ones. You need to move people who may not want to move. That means having a coordinated plan with timing and resourcing that is sensitive to the people side of change.
What you're doing right now wasn't what you signed up for!
People problems all around. Rosters to be filled. Administration, organizing, setting up, checking up, following up, fixing the sound system, balancing the budget. Trying to keep people happy (not to mention the politics)
––it doesn't need to be this way!
So what's Oilstone all about then?
Oilstone mobilises pastors to lead healthy disciple-making churches by equipping you to take the initiative to wisely enlist, enable and empower God's people in pursuing His mission of going and making disciples. The foundation is built on Matt 28:16-20.
Why make disciples?
Then Jesus came to them and said,
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
– Matthew 28:18-20 (NIV)
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