Training 1 - Train others, so they train others

I am going to start with some pictures to show how training does happen and could happen.

First Way

Pastor teaches other people.

When the pastor stops, there is no more teaching. The church will die quickly.

Second Way

College trains pastors to teach other people.

Train pastors at church institutions. These pastors do most of the work. The training is expensive, so we only train a few pastors. We try to train enough pastors to replace those who retire.

Third Way

Pastor trains others to train others to train others...

The pastor teaches people, but he also trains them to teach others. So people in villages are trained to teach others. Teaching is handed on from one generation to the next. This is much cheaper and many people are trained.

In the PCV we mostly use the second way. I will try to show in these posts that the third way can help us.

Pastors should train people in villages, and these people can then train others. Many, many people can be trained. We then send some of these people to colleges to get more training. But most people will be trained in the village. Every pastor is a trainer and every Christian is being taught to build the body of Christ.