Writing the First Third

Week 17 from Calvary Baptist Church on Vimeo.

      In this week's blog we share ideas for writing the first third of the session outline ("Looking Back").  You, as the disciplemaker group leader can write this portion.  Remember the first third has five elements:

• Fellowship
• Member care
• Prayer
• Loving accountability
• Vision casting

     You will notice this week's outline will have that portion blank so that you can write it.  The idea is that eventually you'll be able to do this "by heart" and teach others how to do it too.

    Below you can see the session outline in JPEG format or you can download it in PDF format here.

Three-Thirds Overview

3_3 Summary & Challenge 11-21-17 from Calvary Baptist Church on Vimeo.

     This week Pastor Chad does a Three-Thirds overview.  The idea is that each disciple-maker can formulate his/her own Three-Thirds outline from a given Bible passage, and teach others how to do it as well.  This also helps make the disciple-making process easily reproducible.

     This week we provide a complete session outline as we had been doing before.  Next week, we will leave the first-third blank for you to "fill-in."  Each week we will do the same with a different portion until we only provide the Bible passage and you come up with the outline.  Our desire is that eventually you will do this so naturally that you won't even need a paper in front of you.  You will be able to lead a session having nothing else in front of you beside your Bible.

     Below is this week's session outline in JPEG format or you can download it in PDF format here:

Teaching to Fish

Week 16 from Calvary Baptist Church on Vimeo.

     As we have applied the Three-Thirds method, including the head, heart and hands portion, we hopefully have accomplished two things with our disciple-making groups: (1) we have taught participants how to discover God's truth and apply it to their lives, and (2) have trained them so they can use head, heart and hands in disciple-making with their families, neighbors, schoolmates, workmates or any other group they lead.

     In this week's video blog we encourage you to challenge participants to use this method in disciple-making in the contexts mentioned above and we share stories of those who are already doing so.  We hope to continue to see reproduction and multiplication of disciple-making groups.

     Below you can see this week's session outline in JPEG format or you can down load it in PDF format here.

Goals

Week 15 from Calvary Baptist Church on Vimeo.

     This week we model how to do the goal setting portion of the three-thirds methodology.  This is a very important portion of the session.  As disciple-makers we are "teaching to obey" (Matthew 28:18-20).  If we end the session with just Bible knowledge or thoughts but we don't give an opportunity for personal application, we will fall short of our objective.

     The difference between a Bible Study session and a disciple-making session is that a Bible Study will discover knowledge from the Bible and perhaps even discuss possible applications, while a disciple-making session will begin with loving accountability about what was applied last week from God's truth and will end with new "goals" or personal applications for the following week.  These goals should be measurable, specific, and reachable.

     You can view this week's lesson outline below in JPEG format or download it here in PDF format.

     

60 Days of Prayer

     This week we are pausing the video-blog and emphasizing the 60 Days of Prayer.  We are reminded by the allegory of the vine in John 15:1-12 that we can do nothing without remaining in Christ.  There will be no fruit in our disciple-making or in our groups unless we are remaining in Him and He in us.

     As ABFs and disciple-making groups we need to pray that God will bring those who are far away from him to become disciples and disciple-makers.  We will call this praying for the POPULATION.  As we pray for the population our prayer is three-fold.  We pray that God would.

• help us to care for those who are far away from Him;
• work in the hearts of people who are far away from Him;
• set divine appointments for us to share the gospel.

     As God brings people closer to him and raises disciple-makers, the enemy will attack back.  So we pray for PROTECTION from the enemy.

     Finally, when the work of God grows, we need God's PROVISION of finances and workers for the harvest.  Our church is running behind budget and in the process of adopting the 2018 budget.  We want to continue to do the work here and to send others beyond the church to go.  So we pray for that as well.

     As the leader of your disciple-making group there are two ways in which you can lead your group to join in this prayer effort.  First, you can plan to pray during the session in a focused way.  Secondly, you can encourage group participants to pray during the week.

     We are encouraging everyone to pray at the following times for the POPULATION, PROTECTION and PROVISION:

Monday through Friday

7:00 AM--7:30 AM (Parlor open)

11:00 AM--11:30 AM (Parlor open)

3:00 PM--3:30 PM (Parlor open)

7:00 PM--7:30 PM (At home)

Saturday and Sunday

7:00 AM--8:00 AM (Parlor open)

People can come to the church parlor and pray at the designated times above or they can pray from home, work or school.

     During this week's session invite participants to set a goal of the days and times they will join this prayer effort, if they haven't done so already.

     You can view this week's session plan below in JPEG or download the PDF version by clicking here.