You have now introduced your friends, Paul and Cindy, to your Outreach Cluster members, at a picnic gathering of Radiate. You invite Paul and Cindy to your next gathering of Radiate, a progressive dinner that moves from one home to another among the Radiate members. Paul and Cindy have not attended worship or shown interest…
How to Become a Missionary: Becoming a Christian Witness on a Mission (Part 39 of 40)
Outreach Clusters are a midway stepping mechanism for those who are responsive to your God stories and babies in the faith. Outreach Clusters provide an assimilation mechanism for those who show interest in faith but would be intimidated by attending a worship service at your church—for now. Every Outreach Cluster has a leader who organizes…
How to Become a Missionary: Becoming a Christian Witness on a Mission (Part 38 of 40)
When you share your “God stories” with others, and they respond, you become a guide to help them cross the bridge of the world to the world of faith. We first learned this great “next step mechanism” during one of our visits to England. Each year, we take a small group of no more than…
How to Become a Missionary: Becoming a Christian Witness on a Mission (Part 37 of 40)
There is yet one more chapter to the “God stories” culture that will transform your church. Most Christians don’t comprehend the transition trauma from moving from life as an unbeliever to that of believing in God and belonging to a church. There needs to be a middle step between the world of the world and…
How to Become a Missionary: Becoming a Christian Witness on a Mission (Part 36 of 40)
When people share their God stories, it’s because the culture of your church promotes this way of life. In time, it can lead to a revival, which is an act of God. A revival is when the church grows by geometric progression. At any given time in history, several Christian revivals are occurring somewhere around…
How to Become a Missionary: Becoming a Christian Witness on a Mission (Part 35 of 40)
When people live in a culture of sharing God stories at church They eventually, without a program, start sharing God stories with unchurched people in their social networks. Why? They begin to hear God stories of others in church, as people share that they reached out to a non-Christian in their social networks. Then, they…
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