Making Disciples
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Disciple Makers
Starter for 10
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Urbanus
Epaphroditus
Justus
Demas
Aristarchus
Clement
Philemon
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Priscilla
Aquilla
Timothy
Titus
Mark
Luke
synergos
• Co Labourer
• Fellow worker
• 1 Cor 3:9 “For we are God’s coworkers”!!!
What is a labourer?
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Ergates (synergos)
Agricultural
Involved in the harvest
Biblical word or Navigator jargon?
• Sowers, Reapers, Harvesters, Foundation Layers,
Preachers, Evangelists, Builders, Teachers,
Establishers, Disciplers
• www.discipleshiplibrary.com topic ‘laborer’ &
‘FOM’
When You Stop …
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The Burn Out and Replace Model
Barbara Woodhouse “walkies”
“You help him … or I’ve failed” – Daws
“and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you”
Generations
• God’s promises to Abraham and his
descendents (Gen 12:1-3, 22: 15-18, Gal 3,4)
• Physical & Spiritual generations through
families (eg Ps 78: 1-8)
• Seed and Organic Growth in Jesus’ parables
(eg Matt 13: 1-43)
• Christ’s Investment in a Few
• Sustaining Leadership (eg Paul 2 Tim 2:2)
Amazing Stories DVD
• ‘Unpacking the Calling of The Navigators’
What?
Relationship with God
Skills and
Knowledge
Character
What?
LEADERSHIP
MINISTRY
CHARACTER
REL WITH GOD
CONVICTIONS
Convictions & Values
In our humanity and weakness we value:
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The passion to know, love and become like Jesus
The truth and sufficiency of the Scriptures for the whole of life
The transforming power of the Gospel
The leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit
Expectant faith and persevering prayer rooted in the promises of
God
The dignity and value of every person
Love and grace expressed among us in community
Families and relational networks in discipling the nations
Interdependent relationships in the body of Christ in advancing the
Gospel
to the glory of God.
How do we nurture
‘fellow workers’?
• There is no seminar, programme or
formula
• Principles
Principles
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Selection
Association
Consecration
Impartation
Demonstration
Delegation
Supervision
Reproduction
Principles
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Tell them why
Show them how
Get them started
Keep them going
The Power of Example
The Power of Example
“And the things you have heard me say”
“whatever you have learned or received
or heard from me, or seen in me”
“you became imitators of us”
“join together in following my example”
“you have us as a model”
“you became a model”
“you brothers became imitators of God’s
churches in Judea”
The Power of Example
• “man learns at the school of example …
and he will learn at no other”
• You can’t ask someone to do something
that you aren’t prepared to do yourself
Reaching / Discipling Gen Y
• Great Commission versus Creation
Commission
• Forms versus Functions
• Planning versus Preparedness
• Effectiveness versus Experimentation
• What to Think versus How to Think
• Harvesting versus Sowing
• Point in time evangelism versus Process
evangelism
• How Many versus Who
Resources
• ‘Master Plan of Evangelism’ – Robert E Coleman
• www.studentNAVS.org/spiritual-generations
‘Spiritual Generations’ Mike Shamy
• www.discipleshiplibrary.com topic ‘laborer’
• ‘The Ministry of Exchange’ – Bible Study in the
Gospels
• ‘Discipling, Coaching, Mentoring’ Bryn Hughes
• ‘Down to Earth Discipling’ – Scott Morton
• ‘The Nuts and Bolts of One to One Discipling’ –
Tom Yeakley
• ‘The Gentle Art of Discipling Women’ – Dana
Yeakley
The Master Plan …
• Some Snippets
a Few
Reproduction
Questions
Implications for Ministry?
• What will you take away from this
seminar?
• What will change as a result of this
seminar?
• What are the implications for your priorities
and diary?
CONNECT
programme
“… through spiritual
generations of labourers …”
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