What you are going to do next

Action steps are the last and first steps to growth in effective ministry competencies. What you are going to do next is the last step in the learning model and the first step in practice. Action steps describe what is going to change in how you do ministry and how you are going to change.

Action steps depend upon reflection and collaboration. Others bring insights and experience that can help you learn better what to do and how to do it. But you still have to do it yourself.

Sometimes the problem is awareness of the need (what to do).
Sometimes the problem is learning how to go about it.
And sometimes the problem is motivation.

Always our greatest resource is the grace of Jesus. We are told to “be strong in the Lord and in his might power.” (Ephesians 6:10) There is work to do, but it is God who gives us strength (and knowledge) to do it.

At the end of the day the question remains—what is it God wants you to do next? That will be your action step.