CREDENTIALING IN ACOP
credibility and accountability
Credentialing helps ensure that ACOP leaders are credible, accountable, and fully committed.
"When I think of being credentialed, I think of the NHL draft and how when they bring somebody onto a team, they give them a jersey and the player pulls it on...it feels like to me, credentialing is like pulling on the jersey and saying "I'm in, I'm part of this team."
WHY IS CREDENTIALING IMPORTANT FOR ACOP?
- It helps ensure that ACOP has credible leaders.
- It helps keep our leaders accountable to a body of believers.
- It helps formalize/define our relationships and shows that our leaders are fully committed.Â
Test Yourself
What are they?
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Enlisted
Commissioned
Ordained
Talk it Through
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Credentialing in ACOP
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Respond in paragraph format to the following prompt(s):
- In the interview clip with Stan Powers, he said that credentialling "defined the relationship" between ACOP and the credential holder. Why is that important?
- What are the benefits of holding Credentials with ACOP?
Defining relationships allows for agreement to engage or disengage from relationship. If the terms of relationship are clearly understood and communicated then all parties involved are powerful to make powerful choices whether to engage in relationship or disengage. This allows for preservation of vision, mission and culture. Unity is strengthened through well defined relationships. Well defined relationships can work together in synergy. Accountability and relationship are the benefits of holding Credentials with ACOP.
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Respond in paragraph format to the following prompt(s):
- In the interview clip with Stan Powers, he said that credentialling "defined the relationship" between ACOP and the credential holder. Why is that important?
- What are the benefits of holding Credentials with ACOP?
The importance of credentialling according to Stan Powers, it is the formalizing relationship. "I'm in". Building accountability and relationship. Same thing if you love a person, you're committed to one another. Taking the full responsibility in your commitment in Gods call in your life.
The benefits in holding credentials, you're not alone. You are building relationship with the same vision and mission which is to serve the Lord. You're joining a team and be a part of the team.
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Its important because it establishes and confirms that you’re not a one man show who is not accountable to anyone for anything being done or said. When credentialed, it confirms that you are part of, and abide by, a certain set of rules and standards and maintain a specific belief.
It makes it clear who you are standing with, accountable to, what you believe and also that youre legitimate since there is a process behind being credentialed, its not just a matter of paying for a title, its a process of proving leadership and calling.
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Defining the relationship between the ACOP and the credentialed holder is important because it brings a deeper understanding of what the relationship represents or stands for. I represent the ACOP in what I do in my ministry, and they support and recognize me as one of their ministers.
Some of the benefits of holding Credentials with ACOP are accountability, credibility, and relationships with like-minded people.
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