The Commissionary Podcast

by RK Castillo

For more than a decade I was a part of a Mass Evangelism team that traveled, preaching the Gospel in stadiums around the world.  

As I look back over the years, there’s one thing I would do differently.  

You see, I’m always for preaching the Gospel.  The more people hearing the Gospel of the Kingdom, the better!  

In Luke 10 and Matthew 9, there’s only one thing Jesus said to pray for before going on outreach:

“He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Luke 10:2

Did you see what he said to focus on?  

Finding Workers! 

Now you know why I call this the “Weekly Worker Maker” 

As followers of Jesus we have one calling when going out:

In Matthew 10 and Luke 10 I imagine Jesus talking with his disciples.  In Matthew he sends out 12, in Luke he sends out 72.  He has all his workers with him and he says the the harvest is plentiful but the workers a few, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers.  

So if Jesus has all his workers with him and he’s sending them out, where will the new workers come from?  

The “Workers For The Harvest Come From The Harvest”  

When we are preaching the Gospel in stadiums we primarily focus on getting people to raise their hands and come up to give their lives to Jesus.  

There’s nothing wrong with that but it doesn’t help you find workers.  

How do you know when you have found a worker?  

The 3 M’s, Messenger, Message & Mission. 

As mass evangelists we did the first 2 really well.  

I think the one we didn’t do very well is the Mission part.  

This is the strategy we implemented to helps us find workers.

I have all of our people ask someone who just said yes to Jesus:

“Tell me the names of 5 people who need to hear about what God just did in your life?” 

After they share the 5 names, follow with this question.  

“Out of those 5, who are you going to share with before you go to bed tonight?”  

Then we get their contact info and call them the next day and ask how it went sharing with the person last night.  

Probably 8 out of 10 won’t share, 1 might say “it went great talking with them.”  

One of them will say “I talked with the one person, and called 5 others and told 10 people on the streets my story, too!”

Who is the worker?  

The one who went and did the work.  

May God anoint you to be a Worker Maker!

Many Blessings!
RK

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by RK Castillo

When Worship Wasn’t Singing…And It Lasted 270 Days

Have you ever read this verse:

“…on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch…This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet.” Acts 8:27-28

I’ve read this story so many times and I never thought to ask the question, How far away was Ethiopia from Jerusalem?

Turns out it’s more than a 2500 mile trip.

It would take the Ethiopian Eunuch around 135 days just to get to Jerusalem.

Here’s the thing…according to Deut 23:1 Eunuchs couldn’t even go into the temple!

This guy had such a heart to worship God that he wanted to get as close to the presence of God as he possibly could.

Then on his way home (another 135 day journey back to Ethiopia) God speaks to another guy named Phillip.

Phillip’s friend had just been murdered and he had to flee because of religious persecution. It was too dangerous for him to stay in Jerusalem.

He found himself in Samaria preaching the Gospel and doing miracles when one day an angel told Phillip to go down to the road from Jerusalem to Gaza.

I don’t know why I always assumed this road was just around the corner from Phillip…it wasn’t.

It was probably around a 5 days walk.

And he had no idea why he was going or what he was going to do. He didn’t question the fact that Jerusalem was dangerous for him, or that his friend was just murdered there, or anything else.

He just knew God told him to go so he went.

On the way, the Spirit speaks to Phillip to go up to a Chariot. So Phillip runs up to this chariot.

Guess who is sitting there….the Eunuch. He’s reading the book of Isaiah.

I personally think he is reading this book because there’s a promise in Isaiah 56 that one day Eunuchs who do what pleases God will actually be able to enter into the temple!

To get to his favorite promise in chapter 56 you have to pass through chapter 53, this amazing prophetic word about a suffering lamb.

Phillip hears them read about the lamb that was slaughtered. He explains the good news about Jesus and immediately this worshipping Ethiopian wants into the family of Jesus!

Jesus said worshippers won’t have to worship in Jerusalem but will worship him in Spirit and in Truth.

The Eunuch could finally worship in the presence of the Spirit!

Where are the worshippers who are willing to travel 270 days just to get as close to the presence as they can possibly get?

Where are the radically obedient ones who will listen to the voice of the Spirit and in a moment’s notice walk nearly 5 days without even knowing why they are going?

Because God wants to connect the 2 so the presence and power of God can come again.

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by RK Castillo

In today’s training, I’m going to show you a fun and effective way to do evangelism I call “Treasure Hunts.”

If you, or the people you’re training, don’t know how to do evangelism, don’t know who to talk to and don’t know how to start the conversation…

Treasure Hunts are a great place to start.  

Most people, when they think of evangelism, think they either have to stand on a corner with a bull horn and a sign or they say something like “I’ll just try to act like Jesus until someone asks me why I’m different.”  

Jesus could do nothing of himself, he only did what he “saw” his Father do.  Jn 5:19

This is what makes Treasure Hunts one of the most effective and fun forms of Evangelism.  

You’re essentially asking the Father “Where is your treasure today that needs to encounter your goodness?”  

You start by getting in groups of 3 people (you can also do this by yourself…but let’s just say you’re training a small group of people how to do treasure hunts).  

Make sure everyone has a piece of paper and a pen (or their phone).  On the paper have each person write these 5 areas:

There should be space between each of the 5 areas to add the details that God shows you.

Start a timer for 3 minutes and each person asks the Father for 2 to 3 details in each one of the 5 areas.

Since they only have 3 minutes they can’t really over think it.  They just need to trust God to show them quickly.

After the timer runs out, have everyone in the group combine the details God revealed into one “Treasure Map.”  If everyone in the group of 3 received 3 details in each of the 5 areas the Treasure Map should have 9 details written under each area.  

The treasure map reveals where your treasure is.  For example, if someone was praying for location and saw a picture of a big yellow ‘M’ then you would probably go to a McDonalds.  If there was a detail of brown hair in appearance; when you get to the McDonalds look for someone with brown hair.  

How do you approach this “brown haired” person in McDonalds?  

Kevin Dedmon in his book “The Ultimate Treasure Hunt” says this:

“I have used a lot of opening greetings to initiate the divine appointment, but the most effective is to say, “Hi there.  This may sound weird, but I’m on a Treasure Hunt, and I think you are on my Treasure Map.”  I like this greeting because it often makes them ask the question: “What is a Treasure Hunt?” to which you then have the opportunity to explain that God has highlighted them to you in order to help them or encourage them in some way.”  

Along with what Kevin says I might also add “Do you have any of these “Prayer Needs” and hand them your Treasure Map.  

If your treasure map happens to say “knee problems” under the prayer needs section and the brown haired person at McDonalds says they have knee problems.  This is a great opportunity to reveal the goodness of God by praying for that person’s knee, allowing God to heal them and then sharing the Good News of the God who loves them enough to send you to find them at McDonalds.

That’s another simple and fun way to do evangelism.  

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by RK Castillo

There are 2 parts to answering the question “What Does God Want Me To Do?”

What you do should always flow out of who you are.

Your identity is found by answering one question “What does God think about me?” Everything in your life will flow out of what you believe God thinks about you.

If I had to boil what God thinks about you to one word it would be love. God loves you 100% right now, the way you are and there’s nothing you can do to change that.

So whatever you do with your life should come out of your identity of being someone who is 100% loved by God.

Now to the second part…

What Does God Want Me To Do
When you’re trying to figure out your purpose, or your assignment. The one thing God has called you to do with your life.

I think that assignment comes from the convergence of 4 different areas:

Where these 4 areas converge into a single role is the thing God wants you to do.

So lets talk about the 4 questions to ask yourself to help you discover what God wants you to do with your life.

What one thing, if you were to do it everyday, would keep you fascinated and motivated for the rest of your life?

When I think about the word passion, i’m reminded of the movie ‘Passion’ which depicts Jesus laying down his life for the people he loved. He was passionate about people coming back to his Father. He was so passionate he was willing to endure the pain of the cross to get what mattered most to him.

What are you passionate about? What matters to you so much that you would endure the struggle and pain to keep going after that one thing?

The answer to this question helps you to figure out “What” you should be devoting your life to.

Strengths- What do people say they wish they could do like you, but you think they’re crazy because it comes to easy to you?
Every one of us has been uniquely designed by God to be great at doing at something. You have been hard wired in your brain to be great at something.

The unfortunate reality is a majority of people don’t take advantage of the neural network in their brains.

The Gallup Organization asked hundreds of thousands of people this question “Do you get to do what you do best everyday?” Only 17% of people answered yes to that question. Which means that less than 2 out of 10 people are doing what they’ve been designed by God to do on a daily basis.

So what comes naturally to you? What do you find yourself doing well without trying really hard? Is there something people say they wish they could do like you?

The answer to this question helps you to figure out the “How” How you will make a difference with your life.

Needs – If you could get a meeting with the President, Prime Minister or King and ask them to fix one problem, which problem would you ask them to fix?

When asking yourself the question, What does God want me to do with my life? It’s imperative that you understand this one principle. Your life is not about You. The greatest people are those who serve others.

If God wants you to serve others, what’s the best way for your to serve?

Find a problem and fix it.

So what problem are you called to fix?

Notice what gets your attention. When training people I will often send them to a busy neighborhood and ask them what they see. One group will see all the kids running around, one group will see the homeless, one group will see the young girls trying to impress the boys.

Everyone will see something different. Why? Because you have been uniquely designed by God to notice specific things so you can become a solution to a problem in that area.

If you could get a meeting with the President, Prime Minister or King and ask them to fix one problem, which problem would you ask them to fix?

That’s the problem you are called to fix.

Calling – What Does God Say You Should Do?

This is the most important question to ask yourself because the answer to this question overrides all the other questions.
The great thing about Jesus is he is a talking God. He loves to communicate to his people. If you are wondering what you are called to do, ask him.

He will tell you what to do.

Then it’s your job to be obedient to whatever he tells you.

So how does this all work together to help you figure out what to do?

Here are the 4 questions again:

We’re looking for a specific role where these 4 things converge.

For example, Lets say you are passionate about ending human trafficking and you have a strength of singing and songwriting and the problem you would ask a leader to fix is to stop allowing people to be sold as slaves and you know this is something God has asked you to do.

How does this converge into a single role that you know you can devote your life to?

What if you wrote songs about the trafficking problem to bring awareness to the problem so people could get involved in different initiatives to help eliminate people being sold as slaves.

Here’s an example of how this doesn’t work:
I was training young people and one young man said “I am passionate about going to the lake and riding jet skis and water skiing and I’m pretty good at it.” 

I explained to him that is not what God is calling you to do because all the things he was sharing are selfish and are about him. He’s not helping or serving anyone other than himself.

I have good news for you. God has a plan for you and that plan is not about you. It’s about serving others.

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by RKisms

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by RK Castillo

Today we’re going to talk about how to be a worker maker, how Jesus made disciples by a principle that I call “the Jesus funnel.”

The “Jesus funnel” is a concept that I first heard from Steve Jones in a group of transformational pastors that I was a part of. He talked about this concept of how Jesus made disciples. 

Now, I call it being a worker maker because Jesus said the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few, ask, beg the Lord of the harvest to send out workers in the harvest field. So, the entire purpose of everything that we’re doing is to find, train, and send out workers into the harvest to multiply because healthy fruitful things multiply. 

Let’s go over here to my computer and let’s look at the Jesus funnel. 

The Jesus funnel starts off here at the top, and if you see it, it’s the biggest part of the funnel. Now, Jesus would start off by meeting needs. He would heal the sick. He would cast out demons. He would raise the dead. He would take a boy’s sack lunch and multiply it. Whenever he met needs, the immediate thing that happened is a crowd gathered. He multiplied food, and they would only count men. So, it could have been 10,000 people, right? But it says 5,000 people were fed when he multiplied the kids’ sack lunch.

Whenever he met felt needs a crowd gathered. Now once a crowd gathered, then he would preach the gospel to the crowd. Then he preached, but not every single person is going to believe. When some believed, they would become disciples. Then they would begin to teach the disciples to obey. Jesus says, if you love me, you will obey my commands. He says you disciple people by teaching them to obey everything I commanded you. It was obedience-based discipleship where they say, now that you’re following Jesus, this is the way we’re going to live. 

Now, once he taught, some committed. Not all committed to the things he was calling them to do. Some did. The ones that didn’t commit, they were trained. Now training is different than teaching because training is in the trenches. it’s watching you every day. It’s sending you out, watching you, giving feedback, accountability. 

One time Jesus came up to a group of disciples and they were trying to cast out a demon and they were failing and said, “How come we couldn’t do that?” He said, “Oh, this one only comes out with prayer and fasting.” So it was like, they were doing, they were failing, they were getting feedback. So, training doesn’t happen in the classroom. Training happens as you go out and you begin to do the things that Jesus is calling you to do. 

Now, when he trained, most of the ones he trained were faithful. Now not all, because even Jesus’ 12, there was Judas Iscariot in the mix who wasn’t faithful. Once they were faithful, Jesus sent them. And then if you see, they began to meet the needs of the community and gather crowds and preach the gospel and teach and train and send. It was about multiplication. 

But about a hundred years ago, there was this divide in the church where one group said, “Oh, we’re going to meet needs in the community and gather crowds.” These other people said, “Oh, that’s just a social gospel. You’re not actually preaching a gospel. You’re out there just meeting needs, but you’re never preaching.” There was this big divide, where one group said, “We’re going to meet the needs of the community.” They became things like saving the whales and saving the spotted owl. I don’t know. Make sure dolphins are caught in tuna nets or something. It’s like physical or felt needs in the community are being met. They separated themselves and said, “We’re just going to preach the gospel, and where we’re going to do this, we’re going to do this in the church.”

So instead of preaching to crowds in the community, they said, “Oh, you need to come to church to hear the gospel.” They expect people to come inside the building. And again, you preach, some believe. And then you start to teach them. But the thing, unfortunately, that is happening nowadays is the thing that we’re asking people to be committed to is to come and sit in a church and to tithe and be a faithful member. We’re not asking them to commit to being trained. it’s much easier to catch fish than it is to clean fish. This happens in a training where you’re in the trenches day-to-day, meeting felt needs. You’re sending them out and you’re giving them feedback, saying, “You could have done this differently. You could have done that differently.” You’re actually training them, giving them feedback. 

So there’s been this big divide between the people that are out there just in the community meeting needs and gathering crowds, going after agendas, social agendas, and those in the church saying, “Now we’re going to preach and teach, but we’re not training and sending.”

If you look here on the left-hand side, this is like your filter. This is your feedback of what you might need to be doing. So if you ask yourself, is my group, my church, my discipleship group, am I meeting means out in the community? Am I healing the sick and casting on demons, raising the dead, feeding the hungry? Am I meeting the felt needs out in my community? If not, that’s where you need, because the very top of the funnel, for example, he gathered a crowd to save 5,000 people. The top of the funnel is bigot, and Jesus was totally okay to gather a crowd. He would never expect the same from a crowd that he expected from a trained disciple. He expected way more from trained disciples than he did with the crowd. In fact, there’s even times where Jesus will gather a huge crowd and he’ll do things to whittle out and bring it all the way down to the funnel where he just had the 12 left, and he is like, “Are you guys going to go too, or are you going to commit? (John 6)

Are you preaching the gospel out in the community? Not in the church. Jesus preached the gospel out in the community. Are you preaching the gospel in the community? If no, this is what we need to work on. 

Are you teaching obedience-based discipleship? Do you know all the things that Jesus commanded disciples to do? Are you obeying them and are your people obeying them? If not, this is what we need to know. 

Are you training people to go and preach the gospel and train people to obey? Are you sending them out to plant multiplying ecclesias? No? Okay, this is what we need to work on. We’re gonna gather one, three, and nine to begin to multiply workers.

Are you sending people out? We don’t want to just gather more and more and more people to sit in a church on a Sunday. We want to gather disciples and train them and send them to go and multiply where they’re meeting needs and preaching the gospel and training and sending.

This has been a very helpful filter to say, okay, are we following a funnel? Are we serving the masses, not expecting much from them that they just gather because they’re going to get fed or they’re going to get healed or whatever? No understanding. This is what we call to do, but then we need to preach the gospel, teach, train, and send.

Someone asked, how do you get from being a wanderer to becoming a worker? How do you go from being a lost to becoming a leader?

In the worker maker community, we have a number of workshops and trainings that will help you if you don’t know how you’re going to go from lost to being sent. First off, if you don’t even know where you’re supposed to go, we had the Purpose Discovery Challenge or Purpose Discovery Process that will just help you figure out where you need to go to start doing the Jesus funnel.

Now, if you’re not sure how to meet needs, we have a training on how to hear God’s voice, get words and knowledge. We have a training on how to supernaturally heal the sick, and coming down the pipeline is how to cast out demons and do that kind of thing. If your people don’t know how to preach the gospel, we have the Story Evangelism training. If you don’t know what to start training and teaching your disciples to believe, we have the Be One Train One card. If you don’t have a training ready, we have a strategy called the Four Fields where you’re going to train people how to go and preach and grow and gather.

This is the thing that we’re sending people out to do. Find out where you’re supposed to go, hear God’s voice, heal the sick, cast out demons, preach the gospel, teach people to obey everything Jesus commanded and train them, multiply to go and do the same.

This is just a simple way that we do it. This is what we’re training our people to do. But for you, how are you going from wanderer to a worker? How are you going from a lost to a leader?

Jesus funnel, this is how he raised up leaders, this is how he raised up workers. Hopefully, this tool helps you to do the same.

Go meet needs, preach, teach, train, and send so we can multiply workers.

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Workshops & Book Concepts To Help You Find Your Place In God’s Plan To Finish The Great Commission.

by RKisms

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Today we’re gonna talk about the question: Is your church a church or is it a social club?

In two years, you can find out.

I was out there searching on YouTubes, looking at different disciple making movement guys and watches of videos, and I came across a Zoom teaching where the man himself, who basically created Disciple Making Movement Training, David Watson, was doing an interview. During the interview, he said something pretty shocking to me. Let me just go ahead and just play you this clip from the video. I found this on YouTube. I’ll link to the actual YouTube interview. You can watch the whole thing down in the description below, but let’s go see what David says.

Davit Watson: 

You’re not a real disciple if you’re not making disciples. That’s the bottom line. And it’s just like, a church that doesn’t reproduce is no longer a church. In our statistics, we look at churches, they have a lag metric of two years. That’s the timeline. They haven’t started a church in two years. We changed the name from “church” to “social club” because the nature of a church is to reproduce. That’s the nature. So you can’t just say, “I’m not going to do that,” when in fact, the nature of the church is to reproduce. And at what point do you say, this has become a social club of Christians, rather than a place that makes disciples and reproduces churches. And I’m perfectly happy to reassign the name. 

Now we don’t go around and tell everybody, “You’ve been redefined as a social club rather than a church.” In our minds, we recognize they’re dead-ended. They’re not reproducing. They have no fruit. They’re not going to have fruit. And the most common trigger of that happening is paid pastors. The second most common trigger is building a building. And when they did those two things, it became inward looking rather than outward working. Because to maintain a building or to maintain a salary for a pastor in most of these areas is significantly hard. But we see. Every time we saw that happen, we knew that that line of work was done. It’s not going to go any further.

That’s pretty crazy, right? In two years, if the church hasn’t multiplied and reproduced another church, then the church is just a social club. Wild. And of course, he’s not trying to be negative, but he’s just saying healthy disciples multiply disciples, healthy churches multiply new churches. 

Now, how the heck can we get to this reproducing, this multiplication? 

Now, I think the first thing is you got to look at it like a funnel, right? A funnel. Up at the top of the funnel, you got to be planting seeds of the gospel. You got to have people out there that are preaching the gospel, throwing seeds, and throwing them wide, right? So field 1 is all about figuring out, helping people know where to go. 

Field 2, preaching the gospel, the kingdom, planting seeds over, over, and over and over and over again. So you’ll train a bunch of people to preach. And if you’ve looked at our 2% video, the very few will actually go out and do it. So you train a bunch, a few will actually go out and preach, right? But not everyone that you preach to will actually get saved, right? So you preach, some won’t believe. Then those who believe, you have to train them to go and reproduce themselves. So some that you train will actually go and do what you teach to train and disciple them to do. 

So like, you preach to a lot, a few believe. You disciple all the believers, some will actually go and do it. You gather the disciples in churches and raise up leadership, and some will multiply. So it’s like a funnel. You start off wide and get down.

Now, one of the things we realize in what we’re doing is the church is saying, young people aren’t coming to the church anymore. And it’s interesting because if you ask those churches, how many young people are you going to, right? Because Jesus never said, “Come to church.” The church is always supposed to go to the people. 

So how many young people is your church actually going to so that they can hear the good news of the kingdom, and then start the process of discipleship, which gets them into the churches and then multiplies churches? 

So, if you look at field 1 – figuring out where to go, field 2 – preaching the gospel, field 3 – discipleship, field 4 – multiplying churches, we draw it in a nice four-square box like this, right? But in reality, the first one is real wide, the second one, a little bit smaller, third one, a little bit smaller, fourth one, even smaller.

If we’re going to multiply churches, healthy churches have healthy people in the churches. Healthy churches multiply when you send out people to multiply other churches, with an idea that, “Hey, when you come–” so, in my church, we used to say this, “If you got 20 people in your church–” the pastor is not the shepherd, and those 20 people are the sheep. No, no, no. The leader of the church is just the shepherd raising up other shepherds. So if you got 20 people in the church, you got 20 other shepherds with potentially 20 other churches. You got 200 people in your church, you got 200 shepherds.

Now, I think it’s really interesting that in this video, David Watson said the two things that are most common to stop the reproduction of churches are what? A paid pastor and building a building. What? Basically, that’s churches. I’ve known it for my whole entire Jesus life. But if you have the normal ordinary people out there preaching the gospel, discipling, and gathering, and sending out to do the same, that’s how you can multiply churches in less than two years, man. And not to think, man, we’re going to go find a professional pastor who we’re going to set them up in a building. Nothing against paid pastors and buildings. I used to be one of them. You know what I mean? 

But man, we have to realize that the goal is not to get the world into the church building, but to get the church, the ecclesia into the world, multiplying and spreading the good news of the kingdom and seeing the gates of hell destroyed by getting churches in the midst of the gates. 

Can I get an Amen? Amen. Amen. Go be great!

by RKisms

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Hey, today, we’re going to talk about Practical Steps to Evangelism, how you can do this without being a creeper.

Now, when it comes to evangelism, I don’t know if there’s a step by step, step one, two, three, four, a person gets saved, they go and change the world. I see it more like a pathway, like a roadway, and every single person is somewhere on a path, and depending on where they are on that path will determine how you start the conversation, what you say, how you say it, when you say it, et cetera.

For me, if you’re going in cold and you want to reach someone in the most effective way possible, the best way to start, I think, is with what we call the miracle question. Why miracles? I did a study where I looked at every single time in the Bible where it says “News about Jesus spread quickly,” or “Word about Jesus spread quickly.” Nearly every single time, it happened as a direct result of someone demonstrating the miracle power of the Kingdom of God – healing the sick, casting out demons, raising people from the dead, those sorts of things. 

So I’m all about causing a Jesus epidemic. Now, if you want to cause the Jesus epidemic, the best way is to start the miracle. 

Man, we start off our evangelism process with the miracle question, just because I want to see God come and move in this person’s life in a way that makes it really easy for them to believe that the father is good. So we start off with the miracle question. 

Now, after the miracle question, after you’ve prayed for them and God has done his stuff, man, it’s really easy after someone gets up out of a wheelchair to say, “Look, that was a gift from the father because he loves you. Would you like to turn control of your life over to him? Would you like to join his family, be a part of a family that’s going to make the world right again?” It’s much easier because now they know that God is real because he just literally impacted their lives, healed them, set them free, et cetera.

Now, after we do the miracle question, we’ll jump right into our miracle story about how God impacted and changed our lives and why we follow Him. It’s our testimony, our story of how Jesus came in and impacted and changed our life. 

Then the next story down the pathway is what I call your “Who is Jesus to you” conversation. I think it’s the most important question that you’ll ever ask yourself, that you’ll ever answer in your life is this question of “Who is Jesus to you?”

Matthew 16: Jesus is sitting there, talking to disciples. He says, “Who do people say that I am?” And then he looks at him and says, “Who do you say that I am?” Your answer to that question is the most important question and answer that you’ll ever ask me because it dictates how you live. 

This is one of my favorite stories to have with people who don’t know Jesus. I like to talk to them about who Jesus is to me as a person, not as a religious figure who lived 2000 years ago, but as my best friend, what he’s like, what he isn’t like, why is he good. I love talking with people about who Jesus is. So, that’s the second conversation I love to have with people.

Now the third one is the good news of the Kingdom of God, and the way we train people to do this is by following a framework that I call Good Bad Give Go. It’s God is good. He created everything. When he looked at it, it was good. If you look around, somehow it became bad. How did it become bad? Shared the story about how people decided to walk away from God’s ways. Because of that, all those bad games on the planet, Jesus came to show us how good the Father is. He dealt with this bad by dying on the cross, raising from the dead. Because of that, He can now send us the Holy Spirit. When we’re filled with Him, He sends us to go and make the world right again like it was good in the beginning – Good Bad Give Go. 

So, that’s the process that we follow that we like to teach in the story evangelism process, the practical steps for evangelism. You just go along this pathway. You got your miracle story. You have your Who Is Jesus To You. You have your Good Bad Give Go. 

But what happens if they say no? That happens quite a bit. Sometimes people will say no to wanting to be a part of God’s family, unfortunately. I wish everyone would say yes, but it’s just not true. So what do you do when they say no? Man, did you know that 61% of people who aren’t following Jesus said that they would be willing to study the Bible with a friend or family member if they asked them. Ain’t that crazy? Man, that is a huge opportunity for you. So if you want some practical steps for evangelism, basically 1 out of 2 people that you love would study the Bible with you if you ask them.

So, we have a process that we call 7 Miracle Stories. It’s how you can use miracle stories from the Book of John to do Bible studies with people who don’t know Jesus. We give you the question to ask. We give you the verses to use. At the end, you give them another opportunity. If they say no again, say, “Man, let’s get back together again.”

There’s seven miracle stories in the Book of John. So we have seven opportunities to sit down and meet with people to talk with them about Jesus. Share a story of a miracle. Talk with people, see how they’re doing, use these miracle stories to show people how good the Father is so they want to come back to the Father. That’s all purpose of evangelism, is to get people back to the Father. 

So again, practical steps for evangelism – you use your miracle story, you use your Who Is Jesus To You conversation, use good bad good go, and use these miracle stories, the stories of hope to use as a way to show the world how good the Father is so that they want to come back to the Father by submitting to his Son, King Jesus. Man, can I get an amen?

Man, if you want to go more in-depth in this, again, go check out storyevangelism.com. You go more in-depth in each one of the processes, each one of the stories, and I give you a framework so that you can learn it. You can go and train others to do the same. It’s a simple process that you can quickly multiply in other people.

All right, all right, all right. See you guys in the next one.

by RKisms

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Some tips from Jesus on how to be a winner.

by RKisms

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Today, we’re going to talk about a concept that I call “Massification”.

What is massification? Massification is a word that basically means “mass multiplication”. Now, if you guys didn’t know, for many years, I mean, pretty much for over a decade, probably, I traveled all over the world with a group called Team Extreme and we would break bricks and tear phone books and bend metal bars in our teeth and tell people how good God is. We did it in stadiums around the world and had an opportunity to minister to thousands of thousands of people in stadiums, in pretty much every continent except for Antarctica. 

It was a great opportunity. It was a great place to learn about preaching the gospel. A lot of the trainings and the concepts that you’ll learn through this channel, I practiced or experimented quite a bit while I was doing a lot of this stuff, because when you’re ministering to that many people all throughout the year, we were on the road probably about 220 days out of the year, you get an opportunity to preach and pray for a lot of people and see people get set free from demonic oppression and all that stuff.

Now, after I’d been doing it for a few years, the mass evangelism, God called me to go and work with discipleship training schools with why YWAM. I went from the mass evangelism aspect to it. Catching a lot of fish is a mass evangelism. The discipleship training schools with YWAM was basically about cleaning the fish and having to work with people and get them to start following Jesus. 

Mass evangelism was about leading thousands of people to Jesus. Discipleship was about getting these people that have said yes to Jesus to go and do the things that God has called them to do. It’s totally different. I mean, mass evangelism was fun. You get up there, you share your story about Jesus, you preach the gospel, you heal the sick and cast out demons. I mean, it’s a lot of fun. Sitting with someone and trying to get them to walk through the issues and start following God, it’s a little bit of work. You know what I mean?

So, that’s why I think there’s different fields, right? We talked about the four fields. The first field is you figure out which field God has called you to go and minister to. And then the next field is about planting seeds of the gospel, the seeds of the kingdom. And then the third field is about helping the seeds grow, and the fourth field is gathering them into churches. And then right in the center, if you listened to our 4 Fields training, it’s about multiplying goers and growers and gatherers. 

Now, I realized that if you look at Matthew 10 and Luke 10, the thing that Jesus focuses their attention on, right from the beginning, He says: “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers.” If you read the stories of Matthew 10 and Luke 10, Jesus has his workers with him, right? The 12 and the 72. Yes, his workers are with him. He says, “Look, the harvest is plentiful.” Meaning there’s tons of people who are going to get saved. 

What’s few, what’s lacking is workers. So He sends them with these marching orders to find and raise up workers. Now, the workers for the harvest are going to come from the harvest because He had all of His workers with Him. So the marching orders that He gives them in Matthew 10 and Luke 10 is how to go and find and raise workers. Now, if you read my book Kingdom 24902, there’s an entire section just on this thing – how can we do Luke 10 and go and raise up workers in the harvest for the harvest?

Now, I started to think about this from a mass evangelism standpoint because mass evangelism is like the sower that is throwing seeds. Now, if you know the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, it says, the sower, the farmer goes out. In the parable, he’s like throwing seed everywhere. Some goes on the path, some goes in rocky soil, some goes in soil that has weeds in it, some goes in good soil. There’s these four soils. 

Now, if you listen to what Jesus says that the parable is actually about, He says, three out of the four soils actually are believers that say yes to Jesus. I realized, man, this is what mass evangelism is, right? You hear all these statistics that only a percentage of people who raised their hands in mass evangelism campaigns will actually start to follow Jesus. And I realized, man, that is the Parable of the Sower, because three of the soils, Jesus said, “These are those who hear the message of the kingdom and they believe.” So they’re believers. They raise their hand and say “Yeah, I want to follow Jesus.” But only one of the soil produces fruit. 

If you remember from some of the previous episodes, trees produce fruit so they can multiply, which tells me a small percentage of people who believe will say, “I’m going to go and I’m going to multiply what God did in my life and others around me.” I said, “How can we start to massify finding workers? How can we quickly discover workers so that we can send them out to do work?” And I realized this: When we’re doing mass evangelism, we’re throwing seeds everywhere. We haven’t developed a system to find workers from those who raise their hand and say yes. 

So this is what I started to do. First of all, when I’m preaching the gospel, instead of saying, “If you would like to go to heaven when you die, raise your hand,” I don’t do that. This is what I say when I want to lead people to Jesus. I say, “Hey, would you like to be a part of a family that’s going to make the world right again?” 

Two parts of that question: (1) The purpose of evangelism is get people back to the Father. They’re saying yes to be in a member of a family. So they’re not just saving their skin to go to heaven when they die. They’re saying yes to be a part of a family. (2) Would you like to be a part of a family that’s going to go and make the world right again? They’re getting a mission from the beginning. They’re not just going to heaven so they can check off the mark, “Yeah, I prayed a prayer, so now I’m good.” They’re saying, “I’m going to be a member of a family that has a family mission.” That mission is to go and make the world right again. So, that’s what I asked in the beginning. 

Everyone who says yes, I say this after it: “Tell me the names of five of your friends or family who need to hear about what God just did in your life.” And I sit there and I wait for him to tell me, “Oh John and Susie and Carol and Jim Bob down the road.” I wait until they tell me five names and I say, “Out of those five people, who are you going to tell tonight about what God did in your life before you go to bed?” And I wait. “I think I’ll call Jim. I’m going to tell Jim what God did in my life tonight.”

In mass evangelism, we would have these follow-up cards. The follow-up cards had their name, their phone number, their email, the church that they went to. We had all these things that you would fill out so that you can do follow-up. I think you need two things on that card for follow-up to start the discipleship process. You need their name, their phone number that you can text message them at, and then you need to know the name of the person that they said they’re going to go share their story with. That’s it. 

The next day, you call them, text message them, call them, whatever. You say, “Hey, how did it go sharing your story with?” And you look in your follow-up card and you say, “How’d you go sharing your story with Jim Bob last night?” What I think is probably, 8 out of 10 will say, “Oh, I haven’t done it yet.” Good, we found out that they’re not workers. Now I wouldn’t give up on them. I still take them through the discipleship process, trying to get them to follow and obey the things that Jesus said to do. They’re not workers. 

1 out of 10 will probably say, “Yeah, it went pretty good. I told them my story, blah, blah, blah.” Great. I think probably 1 out of 10 will say, “Man, I went and shared with him. I shared with all the other four people on my list, and I went and found 20 other people that I could tell my story with Jesus.” Boom. You just found yourself a worker. 

If you go in and read that section in Kingdom 24902 you realize that Jesus says, “Once you find that, that worker, that house, you focus on them and you pour into them because they’re the ones that are going to take the thing that God put inside of them and multiply at 30, 60, 100 fold of what Jesus says.

So you don’t give up on the other nine, but you realize that the whole point of the massification that you’re doing, the mass evangelism, spreading seeds to as many people as possible, everyone needs to hear the good news of the kingdom. But I know that as I’m spreading seed, my goal is to find workers. And once you find a worker, you pour into them because what happens is like the Gadarene demoniac. He says yes to Jesus. Get set free from a legion of demons. Jesus sends them out to share his story to the Decapolis, which is 10 cities (deca: ten; polis: cities). He sends them out and that dude reaches 10 cities. The next time Jesus comes to the capitalist, people run from all over to come and meet Jesus. Why? Jesus found a worker and the worker went and did the work. Can I get an amen? 

Massification is about spreading seed, seeing who says yes to Jesus, and then discovering the workers from those who said yes. massification, mass multiplication.