T4T Training Topic "Meeting Format"

Chuck Williams reviews "Disciples Making Disciples Weekly T4T Meeting Format"

First Part: approximately 30 minutes
1. Pastoral Care: Open meeting with prayer. Let each trainee tell what is happening in their lives and with their family. Encourage and pray for one another. (You can ask: Is there something you are thankful for and is there something you are stressed about?)
2. Worship: Sing a song or two of praise and worship or read a psalm. (Keep this simple so it can be reproduced easily.)
3. Accountability: Ask all trainees to report on the following:
a. Whom did they tell their story to? (What Jesus has done for them) Did they believe?
b. Whom have they trained?
c. Are the people they are training, training others?
4. Great Commission Vision: Give Biblical reminders of the Great Commission task. (From time to time give examples on how to share with others)

Second Part: approximately 30 minutes
a. Discovery Bible Study Method (DBS)
In this method, selected Scripture Passages are read. Then the following questions are asked of everyone in the group:
1. What did you like about that passage?
2. What disturbed you about that passage?
3. What does the passage teach us about God?
4. What does the passage teach us about people?

Final Part: approximately 30 minutes
5. From time to time pare up and ask everyone in the group to practice telling their testimony and practice asking others if they have surrendered to the Lord.
6. Set goals and pray:
a. Direct trainees to again ask God to show them whom they will tell their testimony this week and whom they will train.
b. Ask them to write down those names.
c. Have them pray that Holy Spirit prepare the hearts of those on their lists.
Remind everyone, every week to start each day by asking Holy Spirit to send someone across their path that they can share their testimony with.

Again: Each element in the meeting is important. If you have to cut the meeting short, then shorten the segments, but do not eliminate any of them. Always do the bold items.