Friendship Evangelism Pt 4 - Leader

FRIENDSHIP EVANGELISM – Part 4

FRIENDSHIP EVANGELISM

YOUNG ADULT CELLS APR 2006

Leader’s Notes

Important Note:

As next week is Cell Prayer Walk, there will be no specific cell lesson for this week on Friendship Evangelism. Instead, this week will be mainly administrative, giving a briefing for prayer walk at Grace II and also sharing on the evangelistic thrusts so far. I understand that most cells have not done last week lesson because of Good Friday event. For these cells, you may continue with last week lesson but do disseminate the information on upcoming events in the ministry to your members. If you do not have time to go through the prayer walk briefing, you may do it next week on site. Prayer walking is not new to our people, so the briefing should not take up too much time.

I. Friendship Evangelism Sharing (15 Mins)

You may begin the cell after worship by asking how many has utilized the Starbucks voucher and share with their friends. If yes, ask them to share their experiences and how they felt. Ask them if they have fill up the friendship evangelism forms. If yes, collect from them and pass it to Andrea. CAN WE TARGET TO HAVE ALL THE FORMS BACK BY 14 MAY? THAT IS, RETURN ALL FORMS TO ANDREA BY 14 MAY!

II. Prayer Walking at Grace II Briefing (15 mins) Inform the cell that next week, cell’s location will be changed to GRACE II church. Tell them that instead of having a normal cell, we will be doing prayer walking at Grace II. This is in anticipation of the building completion in July and the moving of English, Mandarin, Hokkein and YA services there around July or August time frame. (Note: there is a slight delay in the construction work of two to three weeks).

Learning Outcomes: Objective: At the end of this lesson, the member will be able to:

I understand that some cell members are reluctant to fill in the friendship evangelism form. Kindly encourage them to do it. You may need to convince them of the benefits of doing it: 1) It ensures that they really share with their friend. 2) It provides a new contact list for us to pray and target those who are more open. 3) We can then invite these for Evangelistic Gig or other events (of course working together with our members) 4) It helps to drive us to our goal of 50 salvations for YA ministry this year. 5) We want to ensure that there will be a culture of follow-up and discipling in the ministry and it requires everyone to be involved.

Arrange with the cell members a suitable day and time to meet. You may choose any day of the week and at a convenient timing for all cell members. (That is Monday to Sunday as long it doesn’t clash with YA or Youth services/cells)

For those who did not want the voucher but say they will share with a friend, ask them for the form too.

Try to incorporate a meal or outing or a cell activity. Eg. book the badminton court at Gombak after the prayer walking.

NOTE: If you are going through last week lesson, you can do the prayer walk briefing next week on site at Grace II before you dispatch the people.

Below is an extract of Prayer Walking notes from Ps. Betty. What is Prayerwalk? It is a method of _intercessory_ prayer that involves praying while walking at certain location. Biblical Examples of Prayerwalk Ask them if they can come up with any examples? Who originated this idea? The answer is God Himself. 1. Abraham It's a matter of _vision_, getting an up close and personal view of the situation as well as _hearing_ and _discerning_ what God is saying and doing. 2. Joshua And Caleb From this story, two key elements in prayerwalking are:a. We need to _see_ the surrounding with God's eyes;

The story goes back to the time of Abraham when God told him to “Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you" (Genesis 13:17). God commanded Moses to send twelve leaders from each tribe to walk through the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:17-25). Although twelve walked through the land, but only two came back with good reports; they all saw the same things, but their perceptions and opinions were very different.

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b. We need to have _faith_ to receive what God has promised. 3. Nehemiah a.

Starts with a _burden_ --God laid the burden on his heart when he heard the ruin of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 1:2-3).

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Careful _planning_ and _preparation_-- His passion for God and the need of Jerusalem enabled him to endure the hardship (Nehemiah 4).

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Gather _information_ --He walked around Jerusalem during the night (2:11-15) and gathered helpful information before setting out to undertake the job that God had commissioned him to do (2:17-18).

After hearing the news from homeland, Nehemiah wept and mourned, fasted and prayed to God. He went back to Jerusalem and walked around the city to examine the walls. Nehemiah's experience provides us three important principles about prayerwalking.

Prayerwalk helps to bring the walls down between the church and the community. Value of Prayerwalk Basic Skills of Prayerwalk    

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It is to pray on behalf of the neighborhood or the community. It prepares the way of the Lord into the community. It is to pronounce God's presence and blessing over the community. It is praying on-site with insight. It is simply drawing nearer to community in order to pray specifically. It means to take the community for them and not from them.

Do's of Prayerwalking:       

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Pray with your eyes open Practice Silence Pray Conversational prayer Pray until you sense a release in your spirit Pray the Word Smile and be pleasant to people you meet. Note down impressions Debriefing End with thanksgiving

Don'ts of Prayerwalking:

Do focus on God rather than the method (Jer. 33:3; Mt 18:19, 20; Jn 16;23). Do pray for God's blessings over the area you are walking. Do be aware of the physical and spiritual environment. Do pray in a spirit of unity. Do walk in small groups of twos and threes. Do pray with eyes open. Do conversational prayer, encouraging the partner(s) to pray softly yet loud enough to hear each other. Do believe that God will work as you go forth in reliance upon Him.

Don't create a scene by raising your voice, motioning hands, or waving your Bible. Go as light as you can. Don't allow large groups to pray in one spot. Don't pray loudly. Don't be presumptuous and arrogant in warfare. Don't be impulsive when you receive revelations or assume you must act on them. Don't trespass on private property or enter religious sites. Don't go tearing down strongholds and casting out demons.

III. Upcoming Events (15 mins) 1) Next week cell – Prayer Walk 2) 29 Apr – YA Service on Sermon on Da Vinci Code

Tell members who did not come for YA services that Ps. Kieran has been preaching on an apologetic series of late. Last 2 sermons: Is Jesus the only way to God? and Evidences that the Resurrection is true.

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1 May – Grace I Carnival: 10–6 pm.

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5 May – Da Vinci Code Seminar (PNP nite 7:30 pm Chapel)

Ask who is coming? Who is helping? Encourage them to come and help. Slot 10 – 2, and 2 – 6 pm. Church has invited a speaker called I-Ching Thomas to speak. Other churches who invited her charges $5 per head.

5) 12 May – Cell on Da Vinci Code

We will watch an apologetic video against the Da Vinci Code and go through some method of using the movie as a launch pad for evangelism.

6) 19 and 26 May – Discipling Training

In view of move of YA ministry to Grace II and the thrust to reach out, it is vital that we have a system to account and keep in the visitors and new converts. Also, we want to inculcate a discipling atmosphere in the whole church starting from the YA ministry. As such, it is extremely vital that all members are aware of the whole process as well as the discipling materials that we are going to implement. The goal is that we want to help every single member grow and enjoy the blessings of impacting someone’s life as well as assimilate as many visitors and new converts to the church as possible. We will not have cell on 19 and 26 May and instead all are to come to L2 Hall, 7:30 pm for the training. Tentative program something like this:

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19 May

26 May

7:30 7:45 8:15 8:30 8:40 9:45

7:30 7:45 7:55 8:30 8:35 9:45

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Worship Short Teaching on Impt of Discipling Explanation of Follow-up and discipling process Q and A Briefing on how to use the GIG materials Close.

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Worship Short Recap Instructions on how to use the Discipling Materials Short Break Continuation Close

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