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Discipling for life
Remember Trevor from last week, 'the imprint of mission'? This week we meet Ben who, along with his wife Catherine had the job of discipling Trevor after the rest of us left. Evangelism is part of discipleship and if we thought Evangelism was complex then discipling even more so. Ben's focus is on keeping people as close to the community they are already part of and that discipleship is about maturing them in their Christian faith in their own culture and that mission begins for them immediately rather than some imagined moment of being ready.
Interviewer: Neville
Interviewee: Ben
Location Somerset UK
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Context: Ben and Catherine have been doing mission across towns and villages in Somerset for over a decade. Ben has learn't his evangelism on the job and has also discipled many of those who he has led to faith. I shared something of Trevors story last week, how he came to faith and immediately joined in the mission that Ben and Catherine lead. Discipleship is often three steps forward and two back. Ben and Catherine have patiently given themselves to growing those new in Christ in seeing others come to faith and become the ones who also disciple. The interview was too long for one week so I've simply split it to cover this and next week.
Click here to go to this weeks resource material.
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Teaching video.
Deutsch transkript​
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English transcript​
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Afterthought
How to respond to the podcast. Its what you will bring to your next Envoy meet up.
Deutsch NachGedanken​
Awareness (1-2 minutes)
Record what thoughts, feelings or attitudes are floating around your head after listening to the podcast?
Create a list of between 4-7 thoughts.
Attention (4-5 minutes)
Pick one of the 4 -7 thoughts to think and write about a little more deeply.
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Why this thought?
What is it there for?
Is this thought part of a bigger network of thoughts, experiences or conversations I’ve had in the past or recently?
What emotions are attached to it, how am I feeling because of it?
If I pursue this to its conclusion what will it cost me/What will its gain be?
Amend
(1-2 minutes)
Read over what you have just written in the attention section.
Ask the Holy Spirit if anything needs to be amended, added or removed.
Now amend add or remove.
Apply
(1 minute)
You have reached the point where you can answer the earlier question. How, then, shall I live?
Think of it as a conclusion or perhaps the bit of gold or pearl that you’ve uncovered after all the digging around.
This is what you will bring to your next meet up.
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Extra resource.
nothing for this week.