What's APT?

This is the second episode  in a three-part  series called CityLife Distinctives where we cover the following topics.
 

•  Multiplication

Everyone believer should be a disciple maker and every disciple maker should be reproducing by multiplication, not just addition. 

•  Kingdom Ministry

We submit to the authority of God to invite Kingdom-minded partners and volunteers to do ministry together that brings glory to God and His Kingdom.

• Multi-Family Housing is our Focus

We intentionally serve and partner with apartment owners, management companies and teams in order to serve their residents.

• Authentic, Long-term Relationships

We desire to authentically practice the “One Anothers” always putting the needs of apartment employees and residents before ourselves to love and serve as long as possible. 

Our call from God for CityLife is to make and multiply disciple-makers in and through apartments. CityLife has 12 distinctives to guide our apartment ministry. Rod and Gary will cover the following three distinctives in the first of three episodes. 

• Love

Our motivation is to live the Gospel out of love for the Father and for those He created. Our love is demonstrated in our obedience to serve apartment employees and residents.

• Dependence  Prayer

We pray and seek where He is already working and join Him in His mission to transform apartments therefore we will not go and do without His power and guidance.  

• The Power of Discovery

We encourage and equip apartment employees and residents to discover the God of the Bible in small groups with an 8-question inductive Discovery Bible Study.

Rod and Gary will conclude this 2 part series on Discovery Bible Study as a tool that the Holy Spirit uses to be the engine to make and multiply disciplemakers in any context or culture. The Holy Spirit is the fuel that creates the environments for Kingdom movements.

What is DBS? Discovery Bible Study is an inductive method in which participants learn what the scripture reveals about God and about people. Obedience to the passage is stressed as they discuss what it will take to obey the passage – and through their earlier reports on how well they did in living it out the previous week. Each week, each participant is asked to share either the lesson or the method with others. The results are shared with the group each week. Rapid practice and sharing is the key to reproduction.

Rod and Gary will thoroughly discuss what makes DBS a tool that the Holy Spirit uses to be the engine to make and multiply disciplemakers in any context or culture. The Holy Spirit is the fuel that creates the environments for Kingdom movements.

A Discovery Bible Study (DBS) is facilitated by using eight simple questions. These questions, or steps, are carefully designed to bond a small group of 4-6 people together as they explore the Word of God in a non-threatening environment. 

Partnerships can be characterized in our apartment ministry context as Kingdom expansion. CityLife is not about building a huge organization. We are committed to building partnerships to work together for the "good" of those who live and work in apartments.

This session is filled with great information on why we partner with others and what that means in making disciples who make disciples.

Today's conversation is built around our obedience-based disciple making process that is happening in other parts of the world where there is a rapid reproduction of disciples making disciples who make disciples. 

We cover the five basic elements of this process including, Praying and Fasting, Serving with Purpose, Finding Persons of Peace, Starting Discovery Bible Studies and Embracing Multiplication. 

Rod and Gary talk about how CityLife got started and how those early days set the stage for where CityLife apartment ministry is today.

The conversation began with How CityLife got started but moved into why CityLife  focuses on apartments and how apartment ministry works for us to make and multiply disciplemakers.