Success Path to Small Group Discipling

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Success Path to Small Group Discipling
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What is the Ultimate Purpose of Share Him
Evangelism?

• To lead people to Jesus
• To lead them to join the Adventist Church
• To move new converts from immaturity to maturity

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What is Maturity?

• He gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some
  evangelists, and some pastors, and teacher for
  the equipping of the saints for the work of
  ministry.
• Ephesians 411-12

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Maturity

• Equipped for the work of ministry
• Prepared for works of service
• Producer, not just a consumer
• Not just how much I know, it is how well I
  integrate what I know

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3 Stages of Maturity

• Look at 1 John 212-14
• Children
• Young Adults
• Parents

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What do Disciplemakers Do?

• They Teach
• They Model
• They Send

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• How might ShareHim be Augmented to Encompass the
  tasks?

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Answer

• What is needed is an Adventist success path to
  small group discipling.
• Deepens their relationship with Jesus
• Bonds them with at least 6-10 fellow believers
• Settles them in the testing truths
• Gives them victory over sin
• Teaches them how to share their faith
• Prepares them for leadership

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Tasks that a success path needs to accomplish

• Confirm their experience of salvation
• Orient them to life in a holistic small group
• Establish them in their life in Christ
• Teach them how to deal with strongholds
• Establish them under the Lordship of Christ
• Train them to be accountable

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Tasks that a success path needs to accomplish

• Teach them multiple ways to share their faith
• Help them understand different kinds of
  unbelievers and believers
• Train them how to reach the unreachable
• Monitor each new believers progress
• Teach them how to coach and mentor new believers
  and lead groups

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Basic Tools

• Weekly Group Meetings
• Peer Mentoring
• Equipping Guides
• Weekend Seminars

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Time Commitments
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For Small Group Leaders

• One and ½ hours per week for one year
• Commitment to pray for each group members each
  week

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For Participants

• Attend four weekend seminars
• Weekly small group meetings
• 15-20 minutes of devotional time each day, six
  days out of seven

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Five Systems of Group Life

• Community the thumb
• Evangelism the pointer finger
• Leadership the tallest finger
• Peer mentoring the ring finger
• Spiritual success Path Curriculum the smallest
  finger

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• Community the thumb
• Fostering a sense of community
• To live to serve each other just as the Trinity
  does in heaven
• Group members grow closer to God as they grow
  closer to each other

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• 2. Evangelism the pointer finger
• This finger represents the groups efforts at
  evangelism
• Gives the group its purpose
• Looking out for people to invite to meetings

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• 3. Leadership the tallest finger
• One or more mature Christians in the group
• Have a close relationship with God, know the
  importance of a daily walk with Jesus
• Trained how to oversee the group meetings

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• 4. Peer Mentoring the ring finger
• Holistic small groups have a system of support
• Each group member has a ministry partner
• Lifting each other up in prayer daily
• Take time to encourage each other

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• 5. Spiritual Success Path Curriculum the
• smallest finger
• Represents the weaker group members who are in
  need of growing
• New members need to be equipped for ministry

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A Uniform Tour of the Success Path

• Training Sessions
• Attend a small group leadership session
• This Session will be held on Sept. 1, 2007
• Read Orientation to Holistic Groups and the
  Journey of Discipleship by Don James

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Share Him Series

• Participants will be seated at round tables
• Each table will have a group leader
• Have 3 4 application questions
• Crafted to foster open sharing and create
  community

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After two or three weeks

• Transition from meetings several nights toone or
  two nights per week
• The Discussion leader begins meeting with group
  outside of Share Him context

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Holistic Small Groups

• Need to jointly decide on a meeting place and time

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First Phase of the Success Path

• Deepens the understanding of the plan of
  salvation
• Introduces them to the Adventist church
• Holistic small groups

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Second phase

• Grounds them in testing truths
• Builds trust with their mentor
• Prepares them to break free from strongholds

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Third Phase Fourth Phase

• Teach new believers how to share their faith
• How to be come an effective small group leader
• How to coach new believers

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The conclusion of Success Path

• Group leader introduces the Success Path for
  Small Group Discipling
• Explain how the Success Path works, dates of
  trainings, and goals of completion
• Assign each person a peer mentor / ministry
  partner
• Get them started on meetings with their partner
  to discuss first equipping guide materials each
  week

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Three Principles to Keep in Mind

• It generally works best if there is only one
  Success Path
• There needs to be a record keeping system to
  monitor progress of each group member
• Our greatest challenge is to equip every believer
  to be a minister, and to make every church a
  seminary