Assessment: NEW BELIEVERS & CHURCHES

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 (both outsiders\alongsiders and inside movement catalysts) asking the Lord to pour out a spirit of prayer and intercession on the believers and emerging churches among our focus people?

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To what degree are we aware of the role that prayer has historically played in established movements? What lessons are we learning from other movements about the role of prayer not just in the lives of the outsiders, but in the lives of focus population believers and churches?

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How are we developing tools or discovery studies to help new believers and emerging churches grow in devotional and intercessory prayer?

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To what degree are we aware of the focus people’s religious \ cultural calendar and how it affects the lives of believers and churches? How are we developing capacity in the lives of believers and churches not just to survive majority-religion holidays and rituals, but to know how to pray through these seasons and holidays for the expansion of the Kingdom?

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How confident are we in our understanding of the needs of and challenges faced by new believers in movements, how to pray effectively for those needs, and how to mobilize prayer for those needs?

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How accustomed are we to using the New Testament prayers of the apostles to intercede for believers and churches among our focus people? How might we better use these prayers to train believers and leaders to pray for one another?

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To what degree are we aware of the struggles faced by emerging house churches in our focus culture, and how are we taking steps in prayer to overcome those struggles and to train believers and churches to do the same?

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To what degree are we equipped to train new believers, leaders, and churches in reproducible ways to grow in prayer and intercession?

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To what degree do believers and churches pray and intercede corporately vs. individually? What cultural elements may influence this positively or negatively? How can we address this both in prayer and in training?

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To what degree do new believers and churches pray for the lost, both known (oikos) and far (other unreached peoples in their area or beyond)? How can we increase the value for this kind of prayer among them?

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Strategic Prayer for Movements

Contents

Part 1 - Foundations

Part 2 - Tools for Strategic Prayer

Part 3 - General Prayer Resources for All Stages

Assessment: NEW BELIEVERS & CHURCHES

To what degree are we (both outsiders\alongsiders and inside movement catalysts) asking the Lord to pour out a spirit of prayer and intercession on the believers and emerging churches among our focus people?

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To what degree are we aware of the role that prayer has historically played in established movements? What lessons are we learning from other movements about the role of prayer not just in the lives of the outsiders, but in the lives of focus population believers and churches?

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How are we developing tools or discovery studies to help new believers and emerging churches grow in devotional and intercessory prayer?

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How confident are we in our understanding of the needs of and challenges faced by new believers in movements, how to pray effectively for those needs, and how to mobilize prayer for those needs?

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How accustomed are we to using the New Testament prayers of the apostles to intercede for believers and churches among our focus people? How might we better use these prayers to train believers and leaders to pray for one another?

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To what degree are we aware of the struggles faced by emerging house churches in our focus culture, and how are we taking steps in prayer to overcome those struggles and to train believers and churches to do the same?

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To what degree are we equipped to train new believers, leaders, and churches in reproducible ways to grow in prayer and intercession?

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To what degree do believers and churches pray and intercede corporately vs. individually? What cultural elements may influence this positively or negatively? How can we address this both in prayer and in training?

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To what degree do new believers and churches pray for the lost, both known (oikos) and far (other unreached peoples in their area or beyond)? How can we increase the value for this kind of prayer among them?

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