Cultivating Disciples Passion for Living out Gods Mission

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102

• Cultivating Disciples Passion for Living out
  Gods Mission

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What is 102?

• An Environment to
• Cultivate Missional Leaders

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102 Leads

• Believers in focusing on one Primary Crop
  Disciples
• Believers to identify, embrace strategic places
  for intentionally sowing the Gospel
• Believers in nurturing personal relationships
  with specific peoples
• Church leaders in strategic deployment of Gods
  people through church planting activity.
• Believers in establishing strategic, reproducing
  relational-based faith communities.

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How Can 102 Be Implemented?

• One Passionate Gardener
• Sprout New Small Groups
• Regenerate Existing Small Groups, Organizations
  Ministries
• Churches Gardening Strategically

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Desired Outcomesof 102

• Local churchs Acts 18 strategy strengthened
• Christ followers are given opportunities for
  discovering and utilizing their giftedness in the
  harvest
• Unreached people groups and places are identified
  and engaged with the gospel

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Desired Outcomesof 102

• Local church ministries are expanded
• Local churchs sphere of influence enhanced
• New leaders are identified, equipped, and
  deployed into the harvest
• New churches are planted

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BUILD FENCES Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations (Matthew 2819a)
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BUILD FENCESIdentify A Field for Strategic
Planting

• Large Fields
• Neighborhood
• Multihousing Complex

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BUILD FENCESIdentify A Field for Strategic
Planting

• Smaller Fields
• Workplace
• Affinity Groups
• People Groups

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ASSEMBLE FIELD HANDSForm A Team

• Pray for the Lord of the Harvest to call out
  laborers in the harvest.
• Luke 102b

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ASSEMBLE FIELD HANDSForm A Christlike Team

• Mature, yet growing Christians
• Passion for reducing lostness
• A servants heart
• Value forming personal relationships

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ASSEMBLE FIELD HANDSForm A Focused Team

• Clear understanding of their task
• Reaching nonbelievers, not producing comfortable
  haven for believers
• A stick-to-it spirit

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TEST AND CULTIVATE THE SOIL

• And pray for us, too, that God may open a door
  for our message, so that we may proclaim the
  mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
• Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.
  
• Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders
• make the most of every opportunity.
• Let your conversation be always full of grace,
  seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to
  answer everyone.
• Colossians 43-6

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TEST AND CULTIVATE THE SOIL

• Finding Understanding
• Receptive People
• It is not survey
• It is field work
• Hands on
• Learn as you go and know those in the field

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Testing Cultivating Requires

• Praying strategically
• Establishing visibility
• Building relationships
• Understanding your audience
• Learning to ask great questions
• Willingness to be a good listener
• Looking for open windows for conversations about
  Christ
• Letting others see Christ in and through you.

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SOW SEEDSLive Missionally

• I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God
  made it grow.
• I Corinthians 36

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SOW SEEDSLive Missionally

• The Law of the Harvest
• If you sow abundantly,
• you will also reap abundantly.

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Living Missionally Results In

• Investing your life into the lives of others
• Engaging people with love and kindness
• Praying regularly for people
• Performing random acts of kindness
• Incarnating the gospel message
• Providing ample opportunities for people to
  experience the gospel

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NURTURE SOIL SEEDLINGSBuild Community

• Each of you should look not only to your own
  interest,
• but also to the interest of others.
• Philippians 24

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NURTURE SOIL SEEDLINGSBuild Community

• It was reported in 1992, that only 20 of
  converts described their experience as dramatic
  or radical.
• Therefore, we must recognize that people are
  more likely to come to faith gradually than
  through some Damascus Road experience.
• We must help them belong before they can believe
  and become like Christ.

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NURTURE SOIL SEEDLINGSBuilding Community

• Host or organize social events
• Organize community service projects
• Identify and join the rhythm of established
  social gatherings in your field
• Seek to observe, identify, and join established
  relational networks
• Respect the culture you are seeking to reach by
  becoming a genuine part of them.

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HARVESTIntense Discipleship/Evangelism

• To the weak I became weak,
• to win the weak.
• I have become all things to all men so that by
  all possible means I might save some.
• I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I
  may share in its blessings.
• 1 Corinthians 922-23

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HARVESTIntense Discipleship/Evangelism

• Giving a systematic presentation of the gospel
• Continually praying for people by name
• Seeking opportunities to give a verbal witness to
  the gospel
• Being sure people see Christ in us

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GATHERCongregate

• For where two or three come together in my name,
  there am I with them.
• Matthew 1820

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GATHEROthers For

• Bible Study
• Worship Celebration
• Life Issue Discussions

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BUILD NEW FENCESMultiply

• The Goal is Multiplication
• Multiplication of Believers
• Multiplication of Disciples
• Multiplication of Leaders
• Multiplication of Ministers
• Multiplication of Churches