What is Good Soil?
Good Soil Evangelism & Discipleship takes its name from Jesus’ parable of the seed and the soils, and is a careful attempt to try to assure that the people to whom we minister clearly understand, genuinely embrace, and firmly hold on to the gospel.
The Good Soil Basic Seminar equips you understand and cut through worldview noise and begin to share God’s story of redemption chronologically. The seminar extends over three days and includes the Good Soil Trainer Certification Workshop.
The Why
Understanding the Good Soil Theology of Evangelism and Discipleship (E&D)
- “Good soil” as defined by Jesus
- The Good Soil E&D scale
- Initial contact and relational evangelism
- The problem of worldview noise
- Worldview noise case studies from the early church
- Worldview noise in your host culture
- Peeling the worldview onion
- Identifying gospel knowledge deficiencies
- Evaluating gospel presentations
The How
Becoming acquainted with The Story of Hope Bible study book
- Practice telling God’s story of hope in 15 minutes or less
- Practice teaching some key events from God’s story of hope
- Expanding/shrinking the accordion—flexing the use of The Story of Hope
- Practice using the ChronoBridge to help unbelievers embrace the gospel
- Leading unbelievers to a personal faith response
- Common topical issues related to follow up discipleship
- Becoming acquainted with The Way to Joy discipleship book
- Helping new believers to structure and share their faith stories
- Practice leading a lesson in The Way to Joy
