Assessment: SHARING & TRAINING TO SHARE***
The point of the following questions is simply to help assess your level of engagement in strategic prayer in your stage of movement work, and to help create awareness of how else you might invest in the critical work of prayer and intercession. Our hope is that this tool will provoke more questions, encourage you to dig into the resources to follow, and to reach out to others for more input and coaching.
To what degree are we utilizing prayer to connect with focus people and show them Christ’s love in general? as a bridge to share the good news?
How comfortable are we in using different kinds of prayers in outreach? (prayers for the sick, the demon-oppressed, the poor, the needy?)
Are there certain types of prayer in which we have no experience? Why? How might we gain experience in those types of prayer?
Are there certain types of prayer to which we are (consciously or unconsciously) opposed? Why? What might the Lord want to say to us about this?
As we share with people from our focus people, how much are we interceding for them that their eyes would be miraculously opened to the good news? How big a part does this play in our times of personal and team intercession?
As we go out for times of intentional connecting and sharing, how much time do we spend in prayer beforehand? To what degree do we seek the Lord’s guidance before we share and as we are sharing? To what degree are we comfortable asking for, hearing, and sharing words of knowledge as a means to convict or comfort a person with whom we are sharing?
As we train same or near-culture believers to share, to what degree are we also training them to pray for the lost? To prepare the way in prayer before they share? To cultivate a love for the lost in prayer?
Are we able and prepared to use prayer training as an introduction or on-ramp to evangelistic equipping for same or near-culture believers?
To what degree are we aware of prevailing attitudes and beliefs about prayer among our focus people, both lost and believing?
As we train others to share, how engaged are we in prayer that their hearts will be changed by the Lord so that they are internally motivated to share because of the love of Christ for themselves and the lost, not just because of outward compulsion?
As we share, do we ask God and expect Him to move/work in miraculous ways? Do we go in His authority?
As we share and train others to share, how much time are we spending in prayer asking the Lord for solid local partners? As potential local partners emerge, how much time are we spending in intercession for them? How confident are we that we know what kinds of things to pray for potential or emerging local partners?
How are we praying, and what are we doing, to find people who naturally love to share or who are natural servants - people that we could train in Luke 10 principles? To what degree are we praying and working to remain focused on finding those God-prepared people?