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Foundations for Making Disciples PART 1
-Time
-Conversation
-Do life and ministry Together
First Step – Evaluation, Where am I at on the journey towards Christ? Where is the person I am helping on their journey towards Christ?
Engel’s Scale – http://docs.abwe.org/CEIM/good-soil/miscellaneous/GS-scale.pdf
Evaluate a persons spiritual location with intentional questions
Goal is to help people make one or two steps forward.
We are always making steps toward Christ-likeness.
Intentional Conversation is the method.
The Goal is a self-feeding Christian who is able to sustain their own spiritual growth through daily time in God’s Word, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and in fellowship with the church.
Second Step – Nail Down the Basics
Very familiar, but many if not most Christians still struggle in one or more areas.
-Prayer – pray with them often!
– Bible Study – check out my book on journaling for a simple way to get someone started. https://runwithhorses.net/ – go the resources page for the Amazon link to the book, Simply Journal.
– Community (Church) – ideally go to church with them.
Conversations w/ new believes are about Why and How.
Ask: Where is this person? In their Prayer Life. In There Bible Time, In their relationship with the Church.
As a person grows in the basics, they are more comfortable in them and begin to develop Godly habits that sustain a spiritual life. Eventually they are able to feed themselves and begin to help others. A self- focused believer is an immature believer.
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Foundations for Making Disciples PART 2
Third Step– Make Growth a Priority. Change is natural and necessary.
http://jimputman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/The-5-Stages-Of-Spiritual-Growth-1.pdf
Dead to Life- life begins as an infant.
An infant is dependent on another person 100% for life needs.
Infant to child to Young Adult →Parent to Spiritual Grand parent.
The eventual aim is a mature self-feeding Disciple maker who is capable of replicating himself.
Fourth Step – Keep the focus on growing in obedience, not just knowledge!
Three questions that will help us keep our focus right. Ask these every time we talk about the application of Scripture to our lives.
1. Do you understand the meaning of the passage?
2. Do you agree with what God is saying?
3.Do you see how to apply it in your daily life?
The answer to these questions guides your conversation and prayer together.
Regularly follow-up with; How can I help you live out what you are learning?
Fifth Step – Encourage them to reach out to others.
It doesn’t stop with them. The clear message must be Pass on what you have received.