A Helpful Teaching Series from Africa

Quick Links: Overview • DBS • DBS Story Sets • Prayer • solo Bible study • LTGs

(60-minute YouTube playlist)

0. Intro to the process, which involves the steps that follow (cf. NPL's similar "Four Fields" and Waha's "seven sails").

1. Prayer: for God's vision and work, opened hearts, identified needs and prepared people, and against strongholds. Movement's foundation is deepening lived relationship with God.

2. Compassion: acts of love, aimed at meeting those identified needs, communicate God's good will for all people, warming cold hearts and surprising and informing them.

3. Persons of peace (Luke 10:6): hospitable cultural insiders offer both social cover for the Kingdom's emissaries and access to new social circles.

4. Discovery groups: inductive Bible studies in which the curious look back, up, and ahead to pursue God's transformation. This can lead to conversion of non-believers, or identity-finding and deeper fruitfulness for already-believers. Here are the DBS structure and key questions, which you can also find on Waha's very useful multilingual app.

5. Microchurches: fellowships of maturing disciple-makers grow into 'the whole package' of church traits in Acts 2:36–47 and multiply.

6. Leaders: build up churches and strategize new cycles of engagement of the unreached, by enabling rather than controlling. Paul's apostolic team ran alongside elders of local churches.