About the Disciple-Making Course
About the Disciple-Making Course outlines the thinking and frameworks upon which the Disciple-Making process and course is built so that the user/participant can understand and guide their own learning and experience.
Overall Course Framework: [7] The Matrix
In order to be successful, Disciple-Making must successfully engage and manifest the Kingdom of God on The Three Levels: personal, relational, and systemic.
Personal: Disciple-Making as A Conceptual Framework
The conceptual framework of the course is based on [7] The Seven Questions.
Relational: Disciple-Making as Interpersonal Service
The process-oriented framework on the interpersonal level is [7] Discipleship.
Systemic: Disciple-Making as The Core of Gospel Movements
The process-oriented framework on the movement level is [7] The Way of Jesus and it’s management analog [7] Emergent Leadership.
Course Lessons: [4] The Quad
Individual lessons are developed from [4] The Quad framework, and its derivative: [4] The Four Rules.
The following questions, derived from the Quad, were used to focus development for each lesson:
1. Emergence: Let the main concept emerge in the participant’s life.
What is God revealing to the participant in this position (as in a map)?
- What is core or essential idea (= geometry of thought) in this area?
- What does Jesus really want to reveal in this area?
- How can this be articulated in a energetic or disruptive way?
- What must be deconstructed in order for the participant to engage this?
- How can the community communicate and demonstrate a safe place for this to emerge?
[The seed is already present (provenience). What will create the conditions for its germination? Most seeds require three-fold conditions: 1. a certain soil temperature (energy sufficient to initiate the organic chemical processes); 2. soil moisture content (solvent to dissolve dormant/stable chemical compounds and allow them to move and react)1 for a certain period of time; and 3. a safe space to germinate (no hostile or threatening conditions, mechanical barriers, or animal consumers). The analog of this in terms of a learning concept would be: 1. a powerful or energetic idea (controversial or disruptive enough to stimulate thinking) in the context of 2. sufficient deconstruction of static context (what inhibits the idea from within and without) and 3. a supportive relationship or community (relates to what resolves metanoia and liminality).]
2. Balance: Let the creative tension of the concept create room for revelation.
3. Productivity: Let the seed of revelation embed and produce change.
What skills and tools is God providing for productivity (=fruitfulness)?
4. Broadcast: Support the growth of the change and spread its benefits broadly.
Meta
Some of ProMag’s original thinking relating to how [4] The Quad underpins the learning process can be found in an activity update here.