2009-10-16
Keeping track
- If you want people to grow as disciples, you need to track their growth ADMINISTRATIVELY
- Track the initial response (Check web site for example form.)
- The whole program needs administration - Jn 6.39-40 (Needs clear hand-over; our aim: to make sure that if people do not go on with God, it's not our fault for falling down in contacting them)
- But it's not only administration: It is better to have no leader than the wrong leader. If leaders are not willing to back this, you need to find ways of stepping them down.
Getting disciples into active ministry (every member ministries): peer encouragement, peer evangelism
- How Jesus called his disciples: into active ministry (Mt 4.18-10); a disciple is, by definition, a disciple-maker
- Most Christian adults don't have non-Christian friends
- When they said yes to Jesus, they said yes to being on a ministry team
- How do you get entrenched Christian kids passionate? You keep them in front-line ministries.
- Witness is a noun: it's what you are - week 2 of their new life
- Praying for their non-Christian friends - week 3 of their new life
- Telling your story - week 4
- Bringing, not inviting: come with them
- Witness with them - model it
- Serve with them - especially to older people
Memorising verses
- Disciples who memorise are sharper than those who don't
- If you memorise something, you remember 100% of it!
- focus on God - Ps 1.2
- guard against sin - Ps 119.11
- minister to others - Cor 3.16
- You can't un-memorise something!
- Teaching memory verses
- Soaking in God's word - Ps 1
- Consolidate memory: repeat 3 times in first hour, once per hour for the first day, once per day for the first week, once per week for the first month.
- Use questions which have the memory verse content as their answers.