Use this section when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
Ministry method: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
Section control: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
14 operational passage entries
Matthew 7:12
12 In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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Matthew 20:25-28
25 But Jesus called them aside and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.
26 It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
27 and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave—
28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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Mark 9:38-40
38 John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone else driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not accompany us.”
39 “Do not stop him,” Jesus replied. “For no one who performs a miracle in My name can turn around and speak evil of Me.
40 For whoever is not against us is for us.
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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Luke 10:25-37
25 One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 “What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30 Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.
31 Now by chance a priest was going down the same road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32 So too, when a Levite came to that spot and saw him, he passed by on the other side.
33 But a Samaritan on a journey came upon him, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
35 The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he said, ‘and on my return I will repay you for any additional expense.’
36 Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
37 “The one who showed him mercy,” replied the expert in the law. Then Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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John 10:10-14
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
12 The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.
13 The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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Romans 12:9-18
9 Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
11 Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
13 Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
18 If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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1 Corinthians 13:1-8
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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1 Corinthians 14:26-33,40
26 What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church.
27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, two, or at most three, should speak in turn, and someone must interpret.
28 But if there is no interpreter, he should remain silent in the church and speak only to himself and God.
29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.
30 And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should stop.
31 For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged.
32 The spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
33 For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
40 But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.
- Use when: When setting order for group ministry, manifestations, prophecy, or public deliverance.
- Use how: Let ministry edify, allow evaluation, preserve peace, and conduct everything decently and in order.
- Context and caution: Spiritual intensity does not excuse chaos, humiliation, or loss of self-control.
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2 Corinthians 4:1-2
1 Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
2 Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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Galatians 6:1-2
1 Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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Ephesians 4:15
15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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1 Thessalonians 5:12-22
12 But we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who work diligently among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you.
13 In love, hold them in highest regard because of their work. Live in peace with one another.
14 And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
15 Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people.
16 Rejoice at all times.
17 Pray without ceasing.
18 Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
19 Do not extinguish the Spirit.
20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt,
21 but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
22 Abstain from every form of evil.
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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2 Timothy 2:24-26
24 And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.
25 He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
26 Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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1 Peter 5:1-5
1 As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:
2 Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.
5 Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Use when: Use when forming a team, setting policies, ministering to vulnerable people, children, abuse survivors, or anyone in crisis.
- Use how: Obtain informed consent, protect privacy, use accountable teams, stop on request, document responsibly, report abuse as required, and refer beyond competence.
- Context and caution: No restraint, intimidation, humiliation, forced confession, sexualized touch, medication interference, isolation, or ministry to minors without appropriate guardians and safeguarding.
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