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Come, Let's Go! Discipleship in Evangelism

9/30/2019

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One of the really cool tools on your smartphone is the You Version Bible App.  It's a great resource for reading the Bible but also offers some really helpful reading plans and devotional plans which you can use to grow.  One really helpful aspect of many plans is the ability to read through them with others and to interact with one another and the content of the plan.  

Come, Let's Go! Discipleship and Evangelism is a new plan that was recently created by the folks at Zume.  This is a seven day reading plan. Each day has a short devotional reading which includes a short teaching video from Zume.  Then there are a number of Bible passages to read. Finally, there is an opportunity to talk it over, answering the question, 

"Based on today's reading, what is one thing God is saying to you?" 

(If you do not have the You Version Bible app you can get it at your app store on your phone or learn more here: www.youversion.com/the-bible-app)

Starting tomorrow, anyone who would like to join from the E2E community will begin reading through and interacting with this study.  You can sign up now, but we'll start reading tomorrow, October 2nd. 

Here's How It Will Work
  1. Follow the link below and sign up for the reading plan.
  2. Each day (starting tomorrow - you'll be reminded) read through the plan and watch each day's video.
  3. Talk it over by sharing what the Lord is teaching you through the readings and video that day.
  4. Take time to read what others are hearing from the Lord and to pray for them.
Please consider joining us as we learn and grow and obey together.
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7 Books To Fuel A Movement Paradigm Shift

9/23/2019

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It was early 2008 when I was first introduced to movement thinking at a world wide gathering for the mission agency I was working with at the time.  I was new to the mission field, to church planting and so the week long seminar I attended rocked my world.  There were so many paradigm shifts in what I was hearing, so much that was counter intuitive to what I'd done my entire church life in the U.S.  It was disorientating at first but it struck a chord deep in my soul.  

Church planting movments (CPM), disciple making movements (DMM), the spontaneous expansion of the church - all of it seemed born in the pages of  scripture.    Reading the case studies of movements happening in Asian and Africa looked like the book of Acts far more than my own church experience.  And we we living in a country that was less than 0.01% Christian. 


Doing what we'd always done was just not an option.

Over the next several years, we got some great training, had a great coach and dove into our own personal journey of rewriting the paradigms of church that had been embedded in us by a lifetime of North American church culture.  I also began reading everything I could get my hands on in order to help me  grow in my understanding and practice of all that it would take to see a church planting movement birthed where we were.

The first book that I read over and over again was the book of Acts.  It is where everyone should start.  But after that I began to find other books that helped me learn what God was doing in the book of Acts.

And so here are seven books that I found helpful on that journey.
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Church Planting Movements by David Garrison

This was the first book I ever read that dealt with church planting movements and multiplication. The first half of the book was filled with case studies of movements around the world. The second half taught about the Biblical principles that were found in movements around the world.

You can find out more about the book, including free pdf files of the book in many languages at the CPM website.
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http://www.churchplantingmovements.com/  
T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith with Ying Kai

T4T follows the story of an unfolding church planting movement that grew up in China.  This book shares that story but then goes into detail unpacking the Biblical principles, strategies and methods that allowed Ying Kai to be used by God to catalyze a movement that saw over 1.7 million baptisms and 150,000 new churches in a ten year period.
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What Jesus Started by Steve Addison

Steve Addison is a long time researcher of and practitioner of movement thinking.  With What Jesus Started, he begins with the character, strategies and methods of Jesus.  He then walk through the apostle's work in the book of Acts, focusing on the Apostle Paul.  Laying a clear Biblical foundation for movment principles and strategies, Addison then moves into case studies from the last 2,000 years where movements happened across the globe.  

Addison's website and podcast are exceptionally helpful as well.


https://www.movements.net/​
There's a Sheep in my Bathtub by Brian Hogan

This book tells the story of a movement that Hogan and others helped catalyze in Mongolia.  It is a riveting story that unpacks movement principles through the on the ground lessons learned in the cauldron of ministry.  
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Giving Up Control by A. J. DeJonge

Giving Up Control follows the journey into multiplication and movement principles by a group of Cru staff working on college campuses in Australia.  As they apply the counter intuitive principles they learn valuable lessons that they share as ten coaching proverbs .  This is a super helpful book and is just $0.99 as an ebook at Amazon.  

Miraculous Movements by Jerry Trousdale

Miraculous Movements tells the powerful stories of movements spreading among highly resistant Muslim tribes in East and North Africa.  These stories are interspersed with chapters teaching movement and multiplication principles.  It is both an inspiring and helpful book.
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Contagious Disciple Making by David Watson and Paul Watson

David Watson was one of the early pioneers of catalyzing movements in the modern missions era.  The lessons he learned in northern India have been invaluable in helping others apply Biblical principles to gospel work around the world.  In this book he unpacks those principles in applicable lessons.  

These seven books will do much to help anyone interested in multiplication and movement.  The paradigm shifts needed to begin to apply the Biblical principles of multiplication are enormous.  These books will help you make those shifts.

A few other helpful books:
  • The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church by Rolland  Allen
  • Spent Matches by Roy Moran
  • From Megachurch to Multiplication by Chris Galanos
  • Stubborn Perseverance by James Nyman
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Discovering the Father's HEart

9/16/2019

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At every E2E and gospel conversation training that we do, we always start with the Father's heart.  If we can help the church dive into scripture to discover God's heart and desires for our world, we have a great place to begin training disciples who will make disciples.  

We've turned that beginning session into a worksheet so that groups of Christ followers can discover together the  Father's Heart and we want to share that today.  

Gather a group of friends.  Set aside an hour and work through this discovery study.  And then begin to pray and dream into the final question.

You can work through the study below or download the worksheet HERE.

Assignment: Together with a group of friends, read each passage below and write a simple summary of what the passage reveals about God’s heart and desire for our world.


Passages
  • Genesis 12:1-3 (focus on 3b)
  • Exodus 9:16
  • Isaiah 49:6
  • Psalms 67:1-7
  • Psalms 86:9
  • Habakkuk 2:14
  • Malachi 1:11
  • Galatians 3:8
  • Matthew 24:14
  • John 17:13-19
  • Luke 15:1-10
  • 1 Timothy 2:3-4
  • Revelation 5:9
  • Revelation 7:9
  • Revelation 22:1-5
  • 2 Peter 3:9
  • Matthew 28:18-20
  • Acts 1:8
  • 2 Corinthians 5:18-20

Finally, work through these two questions together.
  • Looking at all of these verses, what are the basic desires of God for our world?
  • Jesus teaches his disciples to pray in Matthew 6:9-13.  In verse 10 Jesus says to pray, “Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”  In light of all the verses above, what do you think it would look like if God’s kingdom came and His will were done completely in your context?
YWAM's List of Verses
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The Coin Of Discipleship

9/9/2019

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And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
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Steve Smith discusses what a disciple making movement (or church planting movement) is, and how to help it maintain its health in terms of biblical orthodoxy and biblical morality.
Helpful books by Steve Smith:
  • Spirit Walk: The Extraordinary Power of Acts for Ordinary People
  • T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution
  • Hastening: Book 1 of the No Place Left Saga
  • Rebirth: Book 2 of the No Place Left Saga
Start working toward catalyzing a movement in your neighborhood with Zume.
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Embassy Teams: Why You Should Start One At Your Church

9/2/2019

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I’ve had a great summer.  One of the highlights has been connecting online with Ali, an Egyptian engineer.  We connect every Monday over lunch and it’s been a joy to get to know him and his family. We have recently started reading through a creation to Christ overview in the Bible.  Next week we’ll tackle Genesis 3 and the fall.  Ali is Muslim.  I am the first true follower of Christ that he has ever met and this is the first time he has read the Bible.
  
This summer I’ve also connected regularly with Mustafa, a young Muslim man in Syria and Mohammed, a Muslim college student in Lahore, Pakistan.  It has been a joy to build a relationship with both of them.  

I’ve been able to connect with them because of Embassy. 

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims living in hard to reach countries speak your language and are going online to find friendship, language partners and answers to their questions. 

Embassy exists so that they will meet a committed follower of Christ. Embassy offers training, encouragement and community and then helps you discover new Muslim friends online.  

“Embassy volunteers use secular, public-access forums to connect with Muslims in closed countries who speak English. As men and women begin to read the Bible and engage in questions about Jesus, we invite them to include their friends and family in the conversation: small seeds growing  to something great (Matthew 13:31-32).” *

Embassy is an amazing opportunity for the North American church to be on the front lines of the great commission.
  • How many Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Indonesia or Nigeria could be connected with the first true follower of Jesus they have ever met? 
  • How many in Egypt, Turkey, India or Iran could begin reading the Bible for the very first time?
  • How many Muslims in Kazakhstan, Syria, Algeria or Somalia could have groups of believers in North America regularly praying for them by name? And how many in Morocco, Iraq, Pakistan or China could have an opportunity to respond to the gospel?

What could God do through the local church?

Through your local church? 

Imagine if you - yes you reader - were to go back to your home church and help form an Embassy Team. 

Imagine if you could gather a group of friends who would begin reaching out individually online while also meeting regularly as a group to pray together, encourage one another and continue with ongoing equipping.

God is on the move in the Muslim world and this is an opportunity to join in that work.


Steps to Forming Your Embassy Team
  1. Stop by the Embassy website and become an Embassy Volunteer.  Get started building relationships online with new friends from the Muslim world.  
  2. Begin sharing about your experiences with friends and invite them to join you.  Then encourage them to become Embassy Volunteers (you can coach them along). Make sure and have a conversation with your pastor or missions committee about your plans.
  3. Find a time when your Embassy Team can meet regularly to share testimonies, encourage and pray for one another and to do ongoing equipping.  This could be weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.
  4. Help other local churches form their own Embassy Teams.
“The Great Commission is for every church in every culture in every generation.  There are no exclusions. But . . . every church in every culture in every generation must determine the way in which they respond to this responsibility -- in a way that is appropriate to time and context."​
                                                                                         -Doug Birdsall
Forming an Embassy Team is your opportunity to respond.

You can learn more about Embassy and sign up to volunteer at their website: https://www.crescentproject.org/embassy​
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Stories About Embassy Encounters​
  • Coffee and Conversation
  • Simon's Story Part 1
  • Simon's Story Part 2
* This quote is from the Embassy homepage.
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