Leadership Training Day 1

Greetings,

Yesterday we started teaching the material we came to teach. It is amazing seeing God's hand on in everything we're doing here. This is my first time teaching the WILD Leadership Material, but I feel like I am doing a very good job. Several of the people in my class have come up and said that it has been very inspiring and good material. So the material is good and I am doing a good job presenting it, both good things. 

Mike started the World View Material and has got 5 students in his class. When deciding who to have in the World View class Mike had a couple of stipulations. First they should have gone through the Spiritual Leadership class, and they need to be able to turn around and teach the World View material. That is the real reason we are here, to train the Nepali people and equip them with the tools to diciple their own people. 

The more I am here with Mike the more I understand and can relate to the vision of WILD. We aren't coming here to set up a long term missionary, we aren't coming here to tell them how to be christians, we aren't coming here to tell them to conform to what a Western christian does. We are here to give them the tools to change a culture, tools to reach the young people of the country and minister to them, to teach the young people (and older people too, I guess here I fall in to the older people catagory) about what biblical leadership looks like.

When I teach courses at work I don't get nervous, I don't have a hard time standing in front of a crowd and talking. The material is cut and dry, technical, it is what it is. When I am preparing to teach here I get a twinge of nervous energy, I want to make sure that I know what I am talking about and that I teach the material true to the source. I believe the bible to be the inspired word of God. I want to make sure I am representing it correctly and not adding in something, unintentionally, that doesn't belong. It has been a great learning experience for me.

One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it. It is my prayer that everyone who is going through the Leadership course and the World View course would turn around and teach this material to someone else. 

It is like the addition vs multiplication dicsipleship models. What follows is straight from Chapter 4 of the Spiritual Leadership material.

If two people (Disciple A and Disciple B) begin to disciple two people for a year, after one year both original disciples have two disciples. Discipler A selects two new disciples for the second year, while Discipler B encourages his first two disciples from Year One to also disciple others with him.  

After the second year, Discipler A has 5 people in his group, including himself, while Discipler B has 9 (each of three disciples discipled two). Following this process, after three years Discipler A has 7 in his group, while Discipler B has 27. After four years, A has 9, B has 81; five years, A – 11, B – 243; six years, A – 13, B – 729.  

Now Discipler A has done all the work, while Discipler B has spread the work to all involved and is applying Ephesians 4:11-13.  This is a math formula, and some people will take less or longer time to be discipled so they get to the part of reproducing themselves spiritually, plus some will simply not be discipled or disciple others. 

The point is Discipler B is following the Biblical model that has been used throughout Scripture – Jethro and Moses, Moses and Joshua, Eli and Samuel, Elijah and Elisha, Jesus and the apostles, Barnabas with Saul and Mark, Paul with Silas, Timothy, Titus and Philemon.  

If we follow the Discipler B model, in one lifetime we could see the world won to Christ.  That is what it is all about.  (Judges 2:6-10)  In one generation they can forget what God has mightily done for them. 

Thank you for still checking in to read these, it is very cool to go to the stats page and see how many hits this is getting, and where they are coming from.

TS