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Church Planting Discipleship Evangelism Prayer

What is a Lost and Saved List?

By on Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Lost and Saved List

Do you have a favorite tool for gardening or working in the kitchen? At our house, we have a favorite knife. It is sharp and the handle is just the right size. It works well for chopping about anything. If my husband and I are both in the kitchen, there sometimes is a competition for who gets to use that knife! Tools are important in seeing progress and becoming effective. The T4T Lost and Saved list is one of the best tools I have used. It will help you train people to start Disciple Making Movements.

What Makes This Tool Powerful?

What is a T4T Lost and Saved List? How does it work? What are the benefits of using one? The simplicity and power of this tool is amazing. It helps us identify people in our lives who we already have relationships with, but they do not know the Lord. The list also shows us who we could begin to train. Using this inventory of people we already know helps to shift our mindset from thinking of ourselves only as a trainee. We begin to think of ourselves as a trainer of trainers. It also gets us started with a regular habit of prayer that will deeply impact our disciple making. read more

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Church Planting Discipleship Missions Prayer

Key #1 DMM Breakthrough Growth: Praying With Faith

By on Tuesday, June 21, 2022
praying with faith

In the next few blogs I want to share some keys to seeing breakthroughs that lead to a Disciple Making Movement. The first one is praying with faith.

Let’s start with a funny story to illustrate.

A journalist was assigned to the Jerusalem bureau of his newspaper. He gets an apartment overlooking the Wailing Wall. After several weeks he realizes that whenever he looks at the wall he sees an old Jewish man praying vigorously. The journalist wondered whether there was a publishable story here. He goes down to the wall, introduces himself and says: “You come every day to the wall. What are you praying for?”

The old man replies: “What am I praying for? In the morning I pray for world peace, then I pray for the brotherhood of man. I go home, have a glass of tea, and I come back to the wall to pray for the eradication of illness and disease from the earth.”

The journalist is taken by the old man’s sincerity and persistence. “You mean you have been coming to the wall to pray every day for these things?” read more

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Discipleship Prayer

In The Beginning- Prayer Cells or Training Groups?

By on Tuesday, June 21, 2022
prayer cells

Many disciple makers hope to see God do something great among the unreached, but they follow a strategy that eases slowly into evangelism and discipleship. They start with beginning prayer cells. People they meet are invited to attend a worship time of some sort and to receive prayer. As God begins to answer their prayers, they are more interested and slowly they begin to believe. This is not a bad model, but it is not the model to use if you want to see a Disciple Making Movement.

Why? You may ask. It seems good. People encounter the love and power of God. This approach doesn’t scare off interested seekers. “No one seems to persecute us if we are just praying for people in a new place,” you may say.

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Prayer cells without evangelism do not bear fruit.

Why Prayer Cells Are Not Best

There are a few reasons why a prayer cell strategy is not the best approach if we want to develop the DNA that leads to movements. A movement’s DNA refers to the values, systems and ways of doing things which are followed. It is important to have the right kind of DNA in the very beginning if multiplication is a goal for your ministry. read more

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