About Discipleship Training Workshops:
ovMost pastors would agree that making disciples is the church’s top priority, but a close look at the weekly activities of the church reveals a glaring lack of an intentional plan or process to make disciples. Quite frankly, there are too many distractions and other pastoral responsibilities to focus on such a time consuming venture as making disciples. Unfortunately, many pastors have never had the personal privilege to experience a discipling relationship so they default to their preaching as their sole contribution to disciple making.
During a twelve-sixteen hour interactive workshop focusing upon the mandate of Jesus for His followers to make disciples, we will search the Scriptures to discover what biblical discipleship looks like today, why it really matters, and how any follower of Jesus can make another disciple by using practical tools that have been field tested around the world.
The workshop is led by Denny & Cindy Heiberg of TMS Global. Denny has been a pastor and elder in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church for over 25 years. During the last few years he and Cindy have served with TMS Global training pastors, cross cultural workers, and church leaders globally with proven models and principles of discipleship.
During a twelve-sixteen hour interactive workshop focusing upon the mandate of Jesus for His followers to make disciples, we will search the Scriptures to discover what biblical discipleship looks like today, why it really matters, and how any follower of Jesus can make another disciple by using practical tools that have been field tested around the world.
The workshop is led by Denny & Cindy Heiberg of TMS Global. Denny has been a pastor and elder in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church for over 25 years. During the last few years he and Cindy have served with TMS Global training pastors, cross cultural workers, and church leaders globally with proven models and principles of discipleship.
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Sample Schedule for a Four-Five Day Discipleship Workshop & Consultation
Day One – Wednesday (2.5 hours) “Come and See” – John 1:35-4:46
6 – 8:30 pm
Day Two – Thursday (7.5 hours) “Come and Follow Me” – Matthew 4:19
9 - 12 noon
1 - 3 pm
6-8:30 pm – Cindy: Biblical Storytelling (Oral Inductive Bible Study)
Day Three – Friday (3 hours) “Come and Be With Me” – Mark 3:13-14
6 – 9 pm
Day Four – Saturday (3.5 hours) “Come and Remain in Me” – John 15:5
9 – 12:30 pm
Day Five – Sunday
Message for the Worship Celebration – “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?”
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Equipment Needs:
Projector for Power Point (I’ll bring my MacBook with the adapters and remote)
Whiteboard with Colored Markers (or a Flip Chart)
6 – 8:30 pm
- Learning The Context (Asking key questions about your context of ministry)
- Who Are You? and What Are You Doing Here? (Personally and as a Church)
- The Cost of Drifting Off Course
- My Story (How I Drifted Off Course as a Pastor – Neglecting God’s Priority)
- The Purpose and the Mission of the Church (Making Disciples is God’s “Bull’s Eye”)
- Comparison of an Airport to a Church Building (Equipping & Sending People to their Destination)
Day Two – Thursday (7.5 hours) “Come and Follow Me” – Matthew 4:19
9 - 12 noon
- Discovery Bible Study – Luke 5:1-11
- How Has the Church Drifted Off Course? (Matthew 7:21-23)
- The Great Commandment Precedes The Great Commission (2 Cor. 5:14)
- The Bible is a Message Book, a Method Book, and a Model Book
- The Definition of a Disciple – Who Is a Disciple?
- Active Images of a Disciple
1 - 3 pm
- The Characteristics of an Authentic Disciple (John 8:31-32; 13:34-35; 15:8)
- Commitments and Responsibilities of a Biblical Disciple (1st Century – 21st Century)
- Why Do We Make Disciples? Why Don’t We Make Disciples?
- Who Is Called to Be a Disciple - Every Believer or a Select Few? (Rom. 8:29; 2 Thess. 2:13-15)
6-8:30 pm – Cindy: Biblical Storytelling (Oral Inductive Bible Study)
Day Three – Friday (3 hours) “Come and Be With Me” – Mark 3:13-14
6 – 9 pm
- Discovery Bible Study – Mark 2:1-12
- Five Stages of a Disciple’s Growth
- Three False Gospels & The Gospel of the Kingdom
- God’s Goal for All Disciples: Christlikeness (8 Scriptures – 1 Common Theme)
- Life Transformation Studies (Discipleship Series using John’s Gospel as a Guide)
Day Four – Saturday (3.5 hours) “Come and Remain in Me” – John 15:5
9 – 12:30 pm
- Discovery Bible Study – Mark 2:13-17
- 7 Distorted Views of Discipleship
- Why Bother with Discipleship? (Matt. 23:25)
- Definition of Discipleship – (The Four Phases of Jesus’ Ministry; The Work Jesus Completed – John 17:4, 6, 8)
- DiscipleShift - What It Will Take for the Church to Focus on God’s Priority of Disciplemaking (Quotes from John Wesley & C.S. Lewis)
- Five Relational Contexts for Discipleship (Public, Social, Personal, Transparent, Divine)
- Nine Essential Elements for Developing a Discipleship Culture
- Passing Along the Treasure of the Gospel (2 Timothy 1:13-14; 2:2)
- Characteristics of a Disciple Maker (2 Timothy 2:3-7; Focusing on God’s Priority for us & the Discipline Required in Passing this Priority on to Others!)
- “Who Are You?” and “What Are You Doing Here?” (Reflection Time)
- Conclude with Commitments (“As a result of what I experienced this week, I will….) and Holy Communion
Day Five – Sunday
Message for the Worship Celebration – “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?”
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Equipment Needs:
Projector for Power Point (I’ll bring my MacBook with the adapters and remote)
Whiteboard with Colored Markers (or a Flip Chart)
