Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Daily Activities (Mon. & Tues.)

1. Small Group Worship
2. Lecture (The Persecuted Church)
3. Family Worship
4. Storying

Summary

In our small group worship time we are still practicing Training For Trainers (T4T). The idea is to disciple by teaching certain Bible principles directly using the Bible for answers to questions. The lessons we practiced were on Daily Devotions and The church Meeting.
Dr. Ken Perkins gave incredible insights about the persecuted church. He has been all over the world in missions and now interviews believers from Muslim, Hindu, Buddha and other backgrounds. He then puts together information, statistics and stories of persecuted Christians from all over. He also includes many insights about our own western christian churches. It was a eye opening and encouraging at the same time.
Storying is a type of evangelism that is used primarily with indigenous groups in oral form. Basically it is telling Bible stories in order. They usually are told starting in Genius and ending up in Acts. Everybody in the bible class learns the stories and tells others about them. Once you get some believers, the missionary teaches in the book of Acts by storying in order to show what a church looks like. From here a new house or cell church is born. I like like this way as it allows the Word itself to do the teaching.

Prayer
1. God would pour wisdom, knowledge and understanding into our hearts and minds in order that we might be better prepared for missionary field work.
2. When we are persecuted for Jesus in the field, God would give us a strong faith to hold onto.
3. Leah and Trace as they transition to new and different things.
4. Families back home
5. Quechua people group in Chacas, Peru (future christian leaders)

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