It doesn't get more practical than this! If you've ever felt like you weren't sure how to get started -- or how to get your disciples un-stuck -- this talk is for you. Christopher Ledezma is a gifted disciple-maker, teacher, and leader at Garden City Church, where he teaches a wildly popular and highly effective disciplemaking class.
Some Additional Tips on the Tools from Christopher's Talk:
Daily Prayer Calendar
• Always try to respond to their prayer request with a short prayer, whether via text or voice memo. It is a powerful experience for people (especially unbelievers) to read or hear a prayer on their behalf. It can also have a great impact to ask the Lord for a specific scripture, story, or word of encouragement and share it with them.Â
• Ask the Lord how you can help with any needs they express, as a way to "love your neighbor".
• With those who are not saved, you may get a wide range of responses from no reply at all, to confusion, to an actual prayer request. That is normal. Do not take any of it personally.Â
• You do not need to make a new schedule every 30 days. The Lord will show you when to take people off and add new people on.Â
U.T.C. Schedule
• Remember to teach the U.T.C. schedule before the Daily Prayer Calendar. It lays a spiritual foundation to steward the prayer calendar, and creates space in a person's schedule to easily manage it.
• It is critical that a person has accountability support as they develop the new rhythm of implementing a U.T.C. schedule.
• The schedule is flexible and the times can be adjusted as needed, but the goal should always be 60 minutes.Â