3. Process

Allow 70 minutes for this session

Each of our Explore sessions start with LOOKING BACK. This is your opportunity to celebrate what God has done. Our job is to take action relying on the power of the Holy Spirit. The results are up to God.

Some of the particpants may have seen great success from their efforts. Celebrate with them.
Some participants may not have seen any results from their efforts. Encourage them.
Some participants may not have even attempted the steps of faith. Ask them if they are still committed to doing these things. Offer suggestions of how they can be successful and pray for them.

LOOKING BACK

Celebration of Faithfulness (15 minutes)

Get into groups of 3-4 people and share how did with the goals you set at our last meeting:

What has God been showing you about the people on your Daisy Chain?
How did people respond when you showed them how to make their own Daisy Chain?
What is the Product you want to produce? What should be true about the people who are regularly involved in your spiritual community (church) ?

Can anyone tell us the 5 Ps of Phase One by memory? We introduced these in Session 2.
We looked at three of these in the previous session. What were they?
Ask people to share about their interactions with people in their Daisy Chain. Refocus the conversation on praising God (if necessary).
Ask several people to share the Product they described.

The 5 Ps of Phase One

Purpose: What is our mission?
Passion: What is our motive?
Product: What does our Heavenly Father want to produce through us?
Process: What are the steps in becoming a maturing disciplemaker?
People: Who has the Father sent to prepare the way?

In previous sections we looked at purpose, passion and people.

Who are some of the people on your Daisy Chain that you interacted with since we last met? What did God do during that time?
How did you go in writing a description of your Product?

Here is where we introduce the Planning Arrow and the Five Step Process of

Connect
Win
Build
Train
Send

Work through the chart. You may want to ask a different person to read each step. You do not need to press on each link to read the associated verse if time is limited.

Participants will be asked to download the Planning Arrow in the LOOKING FORWARD section.

People who have attended Shiftm2M will find this to be a review of what they learnt there.

LOOKING UP

A Five Step Process

Process	People	Challenge	Goal
Connect	The non-churched	Let us go somewhere else (Mark 1:38) ³⁸Jesus replied, ‘Let us go somewhere else – to the nearby villages – so that I can preach there also. That is why I have come.’	Build friendships and engating with non-churched people
Win	The connected lost	Come and See (John 1:39-40) ³⁹“Come,” he replied, “and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon. ⁴⁰Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. Repent and Believe (Matthew 4:17; ¹⁷From that time on Jesus began to preach, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’ John 3:16) ¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.	Win lost people by "Prayer, Care, Share"
Build	The believer	Follow Me (John 1:43) ⁴³The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, ‘Follow me.’	Establish believers in their walk with God
Train	The worker in training	Follow Me & Fish for Men (Matthew 4:19) ¹⁹“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”	Equip believers to be workers making disciples
Send	The disciplemaker	Go and Bear Much Fruit (John 16:16) ¹⁶Jesus went on to say, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.’	Empower disciplemakers to multiply this process

Tell what you like about the MyFriends Lifestyle:

How did you first hear about it?
What was your initial reaction?
How did you begin to learn about it?
How has it impacted the way you do ministry?
What have been the results in your life?

This will be a review for people who have already attended a MyFriends training.

To those who have already attended Shiftm2M this is your opportunity to show how the MyFriends Lifestyle fits into the framework they already know.

The MyFriends Lifestyle

The MyFriends Lifestyle will equip your people to become disciple-makers.

From the very beginning they will learn a lifestyle of:

Loving - Praying - Caring for their non-Christians friends
Sharing what God is doing in their life
Reading the Bible with their non-Christians friends
Listening to God and acting on what He says to do

Here are some of the resources they can use:

Win

Build

Train

Send

LOOKING FORWARD

Before the session find out when the next MyFriends Training is scheduled. This is especially important if the participants are not yet living a MyFriends Lifestyle.

Your Process

Download the MyFriends App
Download a planning arrow and begin to fill in your Process.
Find out when the next MyFriends Training is scheduled. Which of your key leaders could go with you?
Review your Daisy Chart and ask God where you should concentrate your prayers. Is there a specific message or need He tells you about?

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