How to Share the Hope
of Jesus Christ With
Missional Communities
Yvette Moy
August 3, 2013
What’s the challenge?
4,400 people groups in world
Largest bloc are Muslim
peoples (2,000 or 45 percent)
U.S. has 361 people groups
59 unreached people groups
500,000 Muslims in NCA
How to begin?
Praying in the places you
expect prayers to be
answered (neighborhood)
Jesus sent 70 … two ahead of
him to every city (Luke10:1)
Pray with Scripture
Pray for fruits of Spirit
What to pray?
Courage to approach and love
Muslims
Spirit to give us right words at right
time
Divine encounters with Muslims we
do not know
That Muslims would receive visions
and dreams of Jesus
How it happens
Presence – wordless witness
Sharing – biblical truths about the
Messiah with Muslims
Invitation – to follow Jesus
Participation – active commitment
of new Muslim Background
Believer to share the Good News
Why a missional community?
Go and make disciples
Disciples make disciples
High invitation, high challenge
Teach people to do mission in
small groups with Muslims.
Use Discovery Bible.
Why disciple?
Discipleship is the process of
becoming who Jesus would be if he
were you (Dallas Willard)
One tree can give you a lot of fruit
Each piece of fruit is the seed for
multiplication
Each fruit has dozens of seeds
One disciple will produce thousands
of disciples
What we want is an orchard
Extended family size is 20-40
Person of peace is someone God
has prepared to receive the
Gospel
Once the person of peace has
emerged, Muslim household
(family, friends, community) are
converted as well
Communal nature of fish
Need one Muslim to turn first
so other Muslims can follow
Muslim groups need someone
to lead out by turning first
An outsider seldom turns an
entire Muslim people group
Why Persons of Peace?
God clears way for relational transfer
of the Gospel along pre-existing lines
We must be flexible in favor of Lord’s
leadership among Muslim
Background Believers
You must do all you can to live as the
MBB lives (work, rest, meals, diet,
signs of respect, pace of living)
Why Muslim Background
Believers should lead?
Stay in MBB networks
Train, nurture and support
Muslim Background Believers
Reproducible, sustainable and
cultural communities
What are signs of
missional leader?
Ability to see God in the
ordinary world of action
Muslims attentive to his voice
Teachers cannot teach what
they do not personally know
and cannot lead where they
themselves will not go
What is a Missional Community?
Social and economic unit: to run a
household was to effectively lead a
community
We’re not merely a church building,
event or program: We’re a body
We’re called to communicate and
incarnate the message of the Gospel
with Muslim Background Believers
How to Reach Muslims with
Missional Communities
Multiple touches
Sense of unity and absolute
dependence on God
Extend hospitality
House church movement that will
penetrate the whole city or
Muslim groups with the Gospel
What is God saying to me and what
am I going to do about it?
A spiritual family develops and is now a
household of indigenous leaders who
will create households of their own
I do. You watch. (needs a lot of info on
vision)
I do. You help. (imitate with more info)
You do. I help. (innovation: how is this
going to look in my life?)
You do. I watch. (innovation and
information)
Bibliography
Releasing Workers of 11th Hour by Ben Naja
And You Will Be a Blessing by Ben Naja and Mussa Sy
Prayerwalking by Steve Hawthorne and Graham
Kendrick
Building a Discipling Culture by Mike Breen and Steve
Cockram
Bridges by Fouad Masri
Leading Kingdom Movements by Mike Breen
Tradecraft for the Church on Mission by Rodney Calfee
Strangers Next Door by J.D. Payne
The Shaping of Things to Come by Michael Frost and
Alan Hirsch
Multiplying Missional Leaders by Mike Breen