Keynote: Mobile in Church Planting, Digital and Local
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This document discusses ways to improve retention of new believers by addressing their needs through counseling and mentoring. It identifies six main needs of new believers: (1) having their questions answered, (2) understanding Christian concepts, (3) knowing how to live according to their culture and traditions, (4) accessing teachings in their own language, (5) having encouragement from friends and family, and (6) ongoing mentoring for many years. It argues that cell phones can help connect new believers to coaches, mentors, and materials. Local believers need support and training to disciple others in their communities.
Keynote: Mobile in Church Planting, Digital and Local
- 1. Sandals on the Ground Making converts into mature disciples ©2015 Wayne Dye
- 2. My Nepali friend Nanda
- 3. “If God has a plan for my life • surely he wants me to go to the university”
- 7. GMO and other sites • Many site visits • For GMO as an example, about 11% of these are DECISIONS • 15% of those decisions write in for training or counseling • If 25% of those starting counseling follow through, <2% of decisions follow through • RAISING this percentage would be valuable
- 8. To improve retention, look at needs of inquirers and new believers
- 9. Need 1: Answer THEIR questions • Some questions one or two countries • Some are a continent or sub-continent • Some are an ethnic group, or a village • Many are just one person
- 10. Need 2: Understand Christian Concepts • Where God is merciful but so sovereign no one can trust His promises • Where God is the sum total of all life, but knowable through many avatars, including Jesus • Where all deaths are caused by sorcery or witchcraft or ……….
- 11. Need 3: KNOW HOW TO LIVE •Grow crops
- 12. Need 3: KNOW HOW TO LIVE • Plant my crops • Carry on my business • Bury my dead • Christen my children • Celebrate anything
- 13. Need 4: in the language in which they • Talk casually with friends and family • Understand their old religious world view • “Marry and bury and fight and make love”
- 14. In order to answer such questions, COUNSELLORS need to: • Establish trust, though most people never trust strangers • Be able to make sense of what they are saying • Be able to read BEYOND what they are saying
- 15. Counsellors must model how to live • With their limitations and struggles • Using only their resources
- 16. New believer need 5: Friends or family to encourage along the way • People who share their issues • People whose opinion is important • People with whom to laugh and cry
- 17. Need 6: Be mentored (discipled) for many years • Nanda: 2 years before starting to grasp Christian teaching • 10 years to call God “Father” • 6 years to feel not alone in Hindu community
- 18. Local believer Nearby missionary Remote missionary Best 2nd Best 3rd Best Who can do all this?
- 19. But they need help • Many know very little Bible • Some have spiritual issues of their own • Many know little about how to disciple people
- 21. Cell Phones Can Powerfully Assist • Connection with coaches and mentors • Video clips • Oral Bible teaching materials • Written Bible
- 22. Cell Phones Can Powerfully Assist • Connection with coaches and mentors • Video clips • Oral Bible teaching materials • Written Bible • Grouped passages and ideas, SEARCHABLE • Ideas from others dealing with similar questions • Ways to connect with others in their region
- 23. How to Work With Local People • Listen to them • Provide materials THEY want: • Create teaching materials together • Be a backup information and idea source when they are stuck • Help them grow spiritually themselves • = COMMUNICATE A LOT
- 24. Never before have broadcast media agencies been able to directly support local disciplers •Let us take this opportunity!
Editor's Notes
- #10: E.g. “how would I drink water?” How do I take part in a funeral?
- #17: It gets worse:
- #19: UNDERSTANDING: Based on similar life experiences TRUST: Already trusted or can become trusted LONGEVITY: 40 year relationship JUDGMENT: knowing what to teach and when it is understood
- #24: for evangelism for discipling to understand Theological issues to handle practical issues, how to live