ONE...TWO...THREE... INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE DISCOVERY GROUPS!

As a leader of one of the small groups, there's
not a lot involved in it in case if you're

feeling like you're not equipped to lead a
group like this in your home or at church,

let me tell you, you are.

You're really just administrating this, facilitating
the group.

But the word of God is what really is leading
the group.

People are just chiming in on the word of
God.

And we really enjoyed the cadence of the scriptures.

That he helped me get more understanding of
what the scripture is saying.

The whole idea is to get everyone involved.

Whoever's going to look at these scriptures
and stick around are those that are real,

true disciples that are gonna follow Christ
because they're very challenging.

There's no excuse for us to think that he
deserves anything but all.

Welcome to this video, where I'm going to
present something very exciting to you.

It is going to be a little longer video, where
I'm going to talk about this.

I'm going to talk about this paper.

I'm going to talk about something called Bible
Discovery groups.

And I know you will be excited.

And I encourage anyone, everyone out there,
no matter who you are, but especially you,

who work with The Last Reformation, who have
seen our videos to really take this to your

heart, receive this, start to do it, start
to obey.

Because what I'm going to present to you is
something we had been working with, especially

the last half year like really, really strong
and it is beautiful.

The fruits are so amazing.

We see discovery groups, Bible discovery groups
start all over Florida, we see so much fruit

in this, so much good fruit, so much everlasting
fruit.

And I believe this is an important step of
the call God has given us in making disciples.

Take this video.

This is just going to be the first video out
of many videos, where we are going to present

it to you.

First, I want to share this piece of paper.

This is a piece of paper we actually have
on our shop right now.

You can order them in a package of 50 where
you can take this and you can use them in

your group to hand out to those people you
are doing the Bible discovery groups together

with.

I want you to read the text on the paper first
and talk about it and I also put it up on

the screen here, so it's easier for you to
see.

If we take the front of the paper here, it
is written Family on a Mission to Make Disciples.

What I believe is, that we as families and
now we talking about families of the churches,

of the fellowship, I'm also talking about
family as man and wife and children.

We as a household and we as the church should
be people, who is on a mission to make disciples.

We are all called to make disciples.

And this easy tool here will be so easy for
you as a family to use your living room to

invite friends and neighbors, to sit down
with them and you without ever really have

been leading up starting a church before,
maybe even have experience in leadership and

how to run a fellowship.

You can, with this tool, actually start to
do your own fellowships at home.

And you can be a family that is on a mission
together and you can make disciples.

But we as the body of Christ, we are also
a family.

And this is a tool for all of us, no matter
where we are.

On this paper I'm written up, we have written
up three steps people can take.

It doesn't have to be exactly these steps,
that you take step one first and then step

two and then step three.

You can start with step two if you want and
go into step three.

But I want to present what is on this paper
here.

First step we read here is step one.

Go through the Kickstart packages and host
you own kickstart.

The Kickstart packages, I have some clips
here, the Kickstart packages is amazing, amazing

tool, we had just given out.

IT is an app you can use on your telephone,
it is also a page on the website.

You can go directly in on your computer and
it is a book for you, who are hosting your

own kickstarts and it's a workbook for those
who are joining the Kickstart you are hosting

in your home.

So the Kickstart packages is all those things
combined together with seven videos.

It's not the same as a kickstart weekend.

Kickstart weekend is something we sometimes
do, where people come to us and we share the

word and we train people and take them out,
it is a little the same, but still not.

Here there is so much more teaching, there
is so much deeper and we go so much more deeper

in the word.

There are beautiful pictures, beautiful illustrations,
as you can see here.

And it's really powerful.

And even if you have been on a Kickstart weekend
before, I encourage you to go to the kickstart

app here or go to the seven videos on the
Kickstart packages, because this is powerful.

The Kickstart packages is a foundation that
is so, so important to lay for everyone, the

way you can use the Kickstart packages, you
can go through it alone, but then after you're

gone through it alone, you can host a kickstart,
a mini kickstart with the Kickstart packages

in your home.

You can invite friends and neighbors, people
from church, people you know, people don't

know and you can put the videos on, put them
on the big TV screen, give out the workbook,

if you want to use that to those people, who
are joining and you can then let the teaching

teach for you and let people see the truth.

Then you lay hands on them and they get healed
and you lay hands on them and you baptize

them in water and Holy Spirit and you can
take them out on the street and kickstart

them, that way.

So the Kickstart packages is an amazing, amazing
tool.

That is very easy to do.

You don't need to be strong in the word.

You don't need to have a lot of experience
with leading a group or a discipleship.

Why?

It is all given to you, it is given already.

You just get the book, get the workbook, put
the movie, your videos on and we are doing

all the work or most of the work for you.

So the Kickstart packages, go through that
and host your own Kickstart, what we say is

step number one, because it's so easy to do.

Step number two is start a simple Bible discovery
group.

But again, if you have any experience and
so on, I still encourage you to go through

the Kickstart packages because the teaching
is amazing, is much deeper than anything we

have ever done.

But if you have experience already with it,
you can also just the step 2 here can be your

step 1, start our Bible Discovery Group and
in this video I'm going to spend a lot of

time talking about what is a Bible discovery
group.

And as I said before, we are going to come
out with more videos later, with more details,

with more pictures, with more videos of practical,
how it look like in the homes.

But that could be step two.

But it doesn't stop there.

Step three, start a new Jesus fellowship or
lets say start a New Testament church or a

New Testament fellowship, a New Testament
family as it is.

And this is what we are called to do, start
churches, to start fellowships.

And here are two simple steps you can do first
and then start a fellowship, to start a fellowship,

where everything it demands, is much more
difficult.

But we want to help you in this.

We want to disciples you in this.

And we have already on our website put up
a page called Jesus Fellowship.

You can see there on our website, where there
is so much more information.

But we want to connect with you.

We have people travelling around in the world
now and starting to work with house planning

and fellowships and are there to help you,
help you to host a mini Kickstart, help you

to start a Bible discovery group and help
you especially to start a fellowship, but

to start fellowship, take a little more experience
and you have to be a little more mature in

your faith to really be able to do that.

But here are some good steps you could start
with.

I will read the text here and you can read
it with me.

What is I kickstart?

What is the kickstart package?

It is seven videos with an app, workbook and
a leader book, that teach you, how to become

a disciple.

It's easy to go through and use to host your
own mini kickstart.

Next, what is a Bible Discovery Group?

It is a simple tool you can use to start your
own Bible study groups.

Letting the Bible be the focus.

In these Bible Discovery Group You easily
be able to use Scripture to ministry to everyone

and allow all to participate.

And there is a scripture and then using the
back side of this card.

And here I would come back to this.

And then what is a Jesus Fellowship?

It is a New Testament fellowship, a living
of disciples, living together and growing

into the image of Christ, get started today.

And then there is a link to the page we have:
Jesus Fellowship page.

And there is also the link to the Web, to
the map, so you can connect with people near

you.

This is the card.

And then now we want to go deep into this.

We want to talk about what is a Bible discovery
group?

First time I got introduced to a Bible discovery
group was maybe, I don't know, 15 years ago,

we were working with churches planning in
Denmark, and we are doing churches plans the

more traditional way.

And then I got in contact with different networks
and movements like this simple church movement,

the house church movement also disciples making
movements called DMM.

And most of those simple churches, House Fellowships,
DMM disciples making movements all use this

discovery Bible study method way of studying
the Bible, also called DBS is discovery bible

study.

It is many, many, many years old and no one
really know where it came from or how it started,

because I think it's just a simple way to
read the Bible.

And I got introduced with that and I start
to work a little with it.

But I got a little disappointing in the beginning
because we heard a lot of numbers of multiplication

and how it grew and grew like that in all
of the other countries, poor countries and

third world countries and so on.

But in Europe, where I was in America, it
never really exploded.

But after working with this for some years,
God really introduced me to the whole discipleship,

hands on training, how to preach the gospel,
heal the sick, cast out demons and all of

that.

And I've been working mostly with that, we
have been working mostly with that the last

10-12 years.

But now I feel those two things come together
again, because when you then do this together

with healing the sick, casting out demons,
together with having a focus on the harvest

and finding the person of peace and reaching
out to the lost and casting out demons there

and the full gospel with baptism in water,
repentance, Holy Spirit, then it is exploding.

Then it is powerful because the Bible Discovery
Group, you can do in any kind of setting and

church, you can do it in a Catholic church,
in a Lutheran church, Baptist church, in every

kind of denomination.

And you can just use other scriptures than
the scriptures we are using.

And you can do it without talking about the
Holy Spirit at all.

You just don't look at the Holy Spirit.

You can do without talking about baptism.

You just keep those verses away.

But when you have understand the power of
God and the gospel and know the heart of Christ

to seek and save those who are lost and then
do this, it is exploding and we have seen

that, we know of groups here in Florida, who
have been have been kickstarted,

who have been reaching out to many people
and who have been really working with discipleship

and it have also grown like groups where they
are maybe like 30, 40 people.

But there have been contact with so many more
people to the kickstarts and they reach out

on the street and all of that and have been
praying for so many more, who have got healed

and set free and even who have been baptized.

But that group had not been able to grow more
than those 30, 40 people.

But then we introduced them to this.

And when they took this and we introduced
them to other people we know and love, who

also work with us, and they helped them also
to disciple them and share life with them.

And when they took it, it just exploded.

And we know our groups who went from 40 to
over 200 in a half year, where now they had

groups who have started groups who have started
groups and actually in the fourth generation

of disciple groups, so now we say two hundred
but next time be four hundred , than eight

hundred and maybe 16 hundred, it is growing
all over.

And I know of just three places close to us
here, one have like 12 groups.

One had ten groups, one have 8 groups, and
it is growing with mature disciples.

And when I was on the road trip last time
across America, someone you heard about every

place we did a kickstart, we said set up those
bible discovery groups and people are still

growing, still multiplying, and the fruit
is beautiful.

And so is something we have been working a
little under the radar, especially the last

half year a lot.

But now it is time to get it out to all of
you out there and especially everyone who

work with the Last Reformation I encourage
you to go this way, go to the Kickstart paackages

first.

It's not the same as a kickstart weekend.

You will be surprised when you go to the kickstart
package and find out what is actually is.

Many people think, oh, I've already been on
a Kickstart weekend.

I don't need to kickstart package.

You'll be surprised.

Go through it, the teaching, the illustration
is really powerful and then take this.

You can just take a picture of it, use the
scriptures, make it own, but you can also

go in and order the cards very cheap on our
website, there is a Link, together with this

video where you can get the cards shipped
to you and you can start to hand it out.

So everyone who joined, who have the card,
they can put it in the bible and then they

know exactly where are we?

What verses are we reading next time?

And when they go home, they have the verses
with them and they can go deeper into the

verses.

So let's talk about what it is.

The Bible discovery groups is a kind of Bible
study.

But what is special with this kind of Bible
study is, that is not one man who are preaching.

Some teachers have really difficulty with
some of it.

Why?

Because they're so used to teaching, teaching,
teaching, teaching.

In this concept, the word is teaching and
we are hearing from everyone.

So the leader is sometimes truly that person
who are saying less.

The leader of a Bible discovery group is not
teaching everyone, what the word is saying.

The leader is just facilitating or helping
everyone to be heard.

So the leader will more be a guy, a person
who are saying, yes, who starts?

Can you start with the first verse?

And then let people read the verses and then,
OK, let's talk about these verses and make

sure, that somebody don't take over the lead
and talks to much and somebody don't go too

far away from the verses.

But we keep the focus to those verses we are
looking at and then let the Holy Spirit reveal,

what is all about.

The Bible Discovery Group, we have put it
up, you can decide the length of how it is,

but we have put up eight weeks.

And I like something like that, that if you
do one time per week, it is eight weeks.

If you do two time per week, it is four weeks,
but there are eight times You meet in a Bible

discovery group like we do here.

And I think what is important there is, that
when you reach people and get in contact with

people.

First thing, if you have a church already,
a house fellowship, it is not always a good

idea to invite them directly into your house
fellowship.

Because the wrong person in a house fellowship
can mess it all up and every house fellowship

we are working with out there, all when I
say that all like, oh, if I did not know that,

thank you for telling me now, if I just knew
that, because they've all experienced the

same, they're all experienced people, they
invited in to the fellowship, people who seems

open and interesting, but when they came in,
they just spread a lot of false teaching and

messed it all up and spoke about people in
a bad manner and saw a level, they ended up

destroying the whole group, spread to other
people, and they actually ended up needing

to deal with those people and send them away.

But now they have spread, what they brought
to the fellowship to other people also leave

the fellowship.

I think that's why this is a good step, before
you invite them into the fellowship, you already

have, because if they give you eight weeks
to get to know people and to find out, where

are they and make sure that they're truly
saved born again, so you can invite them in.

And then you all in the group now had the
same foundation.

And you would by doing this, you avoid so
many problems by starting this way.

Eight weeks Discovery Group could if you don't
have a fellowship, it could also be something

after those eight weeks, you really got to
know those groups and you had become a family.

And that group after the eight weeks go in
and host new Bible Discovery Group with other

people, or take a step further after that,
done that a few times and now we are Bible,

New Testament, Jesus Fellowship, where we
look at more than those scriptures here because

there is much more than those scriptures.

So a Bible discovery group can be a good first
step before you invite people into your fellowship

or it can end up doing more Bible discovery
groups and multiply that way.

And after time, it transcend into a New Testament
House Fellowship that is growing.

So is an amazing tool to begin with.

What is also good with having an eight weeks
program is, that is very healthy for people

to commit to something.

If you ask people, hey, we have a Bible study
the next two years, we want you to commit

to it.

Can you do that?

Most people say: No, sorry, I cannot do that.

I cannot commit to two years, like, come on.

But if you say: Hey, we have an eight weeks
program, is that something you want to commit

with?

We would like you to commit to this.

And let's go to the Bible, give eight weeks,
one time per week, and let's study the Bible

together, it is something everyone can do.

Everyone can do eight weeks and therefore
they have committed to something instead of

not committing to anything.

If you just say: Hey, we have a Bible study,
do you want to come?

Yeah, I can come.

And then they come one day, one time, maybe
two times.

And then because they're not committed to
anything, then they drift away and other things

come in and disturb them.

And suddenly they're like, yeah, maybe, maybe
I should do something else instead.

And they don't join the fellowship anymore
and it doesn't become more.

And this is often happening if you don't commit
to anything because Satan is a liar and he

wants to put fear in people and doubt, make
people become busy with other things in this

life, that are not important.

But if they have committed to eight weeks,
then after one week and two weeks, if Satan

comes, they feel under attack and they're
like, OK, maybe I want to do something.

I really don't want to go tonight.

And I have a hard day of work and.

No, I promise.

I promise I need to go.

And they will miss me if I don't come.

I need to finish what I have started.

By doing that you will win so many, many,
many more people then just say, come and join,

if you can.

This is another amazing reason for doing those
eight weeks Bible discovery groups, that people

commit to something and eight weeks is a good
time to get to know them.

Yes, there will be people who drift away.

There will always be people after one day
and one week or two weeks who say, no, it's

not something for me and than drift away,
let it be like that.

But you will see so much more fruit because
those who continue to eight weeks, most of

them will be fully born again, have a foundation
and you actually have fellowship, you know

them.

And most of them will like to join and continue
joining the fellowship or continue new discovery

bible groups with you or join the fellowship
after those eight weeks.

So in that sense, it is amazing.

Eight weeks also give you a chance to really
lay a foundation and go through the basic

in Christianity.

And this is really a basic thing.

The first we talk about disciples.

The disciples are followers, not converts.

Next week is repentance.

Then it is faith toward God.

Then baptism in water and than baptism with
the Holy Spirit and that is our foundation.

Then is resurrection from the dead and eternal
judgement.

And all of this is what you read in the Hebrew
Chapter six.

That's the foundation of our faith.

Then after those six weeks with the foundation,
we talk about relationship with God, love

God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength,
and love your neighbor as yourself and talk

about prayer as access to God and how we pray
and prayer life.

And then we end eight weeks with preach the
good news, heal the sick and cast out demons

and how to make disciples and be in a fellowship.

So that is the basic we have put together
here.

And I want to go through it a little and be
very practical in how it works.

And I would try to maybe try to illustrate
it and so on.

And there are a lot of things in this video
being said, and you can take notes and you

can go through it again and again.

A good size, our experience, a good size for
Bible discovery groups is…

It's actually around 10 people, 10, 12 people,
if you are 15, 20, it is very, very difficult

to hear everyone.

It is to big.

You can do it, but some people will not be
heard, if you are over 12 people normally.

10 is good, 8 is also good, and what we all
experience is, if you start with like six

or seven, that could be some people who drift
away after a week or two.

There's always people drifting away who say
is nothing for me.

If you start with six and a two people are
drifting away, you end up with 4.

If there are 4 people drift away, You end
up with two out of 6 that is very, very small.

You would not have the same conversation with
each other and play as if you start with 12

and there would be two people who drift away.

So you would still have 10, if 4 drift away
you still have 8 and 8 is a beautiful number,

it is a number where you can easily sit in
a living room.

You don't need to rent a place.

You can sit around in the living room.

You can sit around a sofa, you can have coffee
on the table.

So 8, 10, 12 people is what we experience
is the best size on a group like this.

The way it works is that you invite people
over, you can meet in your homes, you go to

meet on cafe places if you want, you can meet
on Panera Bread or coffees or McDonalds, every

place, find a coffee place near you.

But we encourage people to still meet in homes
if it is possible, because besides the Bible

Discovery Group, beside going through the
scripture, there will also be a time of ministering

to each other.

And it will be much easier to do that in a
home.

But if you don't have a place to meet, don't
let that hinder you.

Many people do a Bible Discovery group where
they just do it in an hour and you can go

to the scripture in an hour but our experience
with those people we work with and the groups

we have is, we encourage people to sit a two
hour off, because then there would be one

hour of discovering the Bible together, one
hour of going through the scriptures.

But there will also be time for fellowship,
there'll be time for sharing testimony, there

will be time to ministry to each other.

So two hours is what we often encourage people
to set off.

What you can do is when you invite people
to two hours, use the first around twenty

minutes, it again.

You don't have to be so strict, but it's just
our experience with those groups, we are working

with, if you use the first like fifteen, twenty
minutes to talk, get to know each other, talk

around, go around and greet people and talk
and start off by: Hey anyone, how have your

week been like?

What about you and anything, testimony, something
people want to share that have happened during

the week, keep it short and then people can
share a little and get started and so on.

And after you had a time where you have started
and this you can start out with prayer, you

go and take a song not worship the whole night,
it is to discover the Bible, we are there

not to worship.

So take a song and worship God and focus and
start up with a prayer.

And then you go into the Bible.

There is the main focus and the person who
are leading the meeting is then saying, OK,

do we have our papers?

Let's look at the papers today.

Together today we are going to look at disciples.

The disciples are followers, not converts.

It's not about just being a convert.

It's about following Christ as a disciple.

And let's look at the scripture.

So who wants to start?

Who wants to read the first verse here, Matthew
28, 18-20?

And then somebody read the verse and everyone
sit with the bible.

You can print the papers out if you want the
verses and give to people but encourage people

to use the Bible.

Most people use the Bible on the telephone
now, I use it on my telephone and I like the

Bible on the telephone.

But it's even better if you can actually have
a real Bible, because then you can line under,

you can take notes and line under what the
Bible verses is saying.

and it's much better.

So you start and then you have the first verse
and somebody read it.

Matthew 28.

And you may know that already to go out and
make disciples of all nation, baptize them

and so on.

And you take one verse and then you talk about
it.

And the way we do it and the way it works
is that every time we look at a scripture,

we ask often four questions or three questions
at least.

The first question is: What do this scripture,
what do this verse tell about God?

What do this verse tell about God?

What do it tell about Jesus?

What do this tell about the Holy Spirit?

Next question.

What do this verse tell about man?

About me, about us.

And last question.

What do we need to do with this scripture?

How do we, how can we obey the scripture?

And then you can add one more.

How can I tell this to other people?

But this are the main four questions people
often need to ask themselves.

We read a scripture.

What do this tell about God?

And then we say: What do this tell about God?

And people start a conversation about this
and this, and what does it tell about man?

and What does it tell about us? and What do
we need to obey?

And you go through it.

And then when you have looked at one scripture
and you have talked than keep it to that scripture,

don't go too far away, it is disciples we
are looking at now.

Don't go too far down the rabbit hole away
from, keep the focus.

And that is what a leader should do.

Just keep the focus and other people talk.

And then you will see how the Holy Spirit
starts to take over and just become a conversation.

And it's very powerful.

It's really, really powerful, because it's
not the word of man, it is the word of God.

There is authority in the word of God.

And then you go to the next scriture, the
next scripture and I have two of the scriptures

here in the first day.

I would like to read on this paper we have
here Matthew 10, 24-25 and this is what Matthew

10 is saying:
A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a

servant above his Lord.

It is enough that the disciple to be like
his teacher and the servant as his Lord.

If they have called him master of the house
Beelzebul, how much more than of his household?

So you read that scripture and then like,
OK, what do this say about God?

What does it say about man?

What do we need to obey?

Yeah.

What is it about, man?

Is he clear in the beginning, that it says,
that we as disciples, we are not above our

teacher and that means that Jesus, he's our
Lord but Jesus is also our teacher.

This is what the bible is saying here.

So we are not above him, but it is enough
for the disciples, you and me, that we should

be as our teacher, so Jesus, our teacher,
he is our Lord, we are the disciple, we are

the servant, and we should become like our
teacher.

He should be like our master, this is what
the Bible is saying.

What more?

He also say that if they call our Master Beelezebul,
that mean Lord of the demons, So people are

calling Jesus bad names.

But if they call him bad names, we read here,
how much more will they not call us bad names.

So so you just read the scripture and then
you ask anyone else who got something out

of it.

And yet it's actually like apprenticeship,
like we enter into apprenticeship where we

follow our master and the whole purpose with
this apprenticeship is to become like our

master.

That is correct.

Anything else?

Yeah, it's actually really interesting the
whole thing that we should expect that people

would call us bad things and nicknames and
lie against us and the bible also said that.

And then you talk about the scripture and
you let the scripture speak for itself.

And anyone who have something to add about
the verse here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was just like when I read, it's just the
whole thing of servant and Lord that when

we actually call Jesus Lord.

Lord.

That means that we are his servant and a servant
is somebody who obey.

So it's not just that he want to us to confess
him as Lord, he want us to be a servant and

lay down our life for him and obey him, and
then we talk about scripture, beautiful, beautiful.

More, who have something and we let the scripture
speak.

And sometimes the Holy Spirit just came and
correct it.

And when we feel like you are finished, that
OK.

More?

What about the next verse?

Who can read that?

That is the nephew.

Ten thirty sevenMatthew 10, 37 and we read
here now.

Anyone who loves their father and mother more
than me is not worthy of me, anyone who loves

their son and daughter more than me are not
worthy of me.

Everyone who do not take their cross and follow
me are not worthy of me.

Everyone who finds their life will lose it,
and whoever loses his life for my sake will

find it.

A strong word.

A strong word.

What does it say about God?

What does it say about man?

What does it say about me?

And what you can do in the Bible if you have
a Bible, you can then say that, you decide

for you, you can find a way like every verse
that is about God, you can line sign like

a line under it.

Every verse that talk about man, you can put
a box around it.

Every verse that we need to obey, You can
put a circle around it.

That is one way to do it.

So when you sit with the Bible, you can like
line under or box around or a circle about

it, like so when you go into the Bible later
and look at the verses, you can find then

all the verses with boxes.

This is something, you know, that is about
God.

All the words are with a circle or you can
do it in another way, You know, this is something

I need to obey, so you can go to the Bible
and then look through the pages.

What does that verses say about God?

This, this, this, this, this.

What does it say about man?

This, this, this, this, this.

What do I need to obey? this, this, this,
this is this.

And then you can go into the Bible suddenly
I need to obey this, I need to obey this,

I need to obey this.

And by doing this, by asking those simple
questions, we come alive in amazing, amazing

way.

You can also use colors, red, blue, green,
if you have things to color with and some

people even print out the verses before and
actually color it.

But you can do that if you want.

But it's also amazing to find it yourself
like what does it say about man?

What does it say about God?

What do I need to obey?

And you can even add one more.

Who can I tell about it?

And then you can think of people.

I need to go and tell about this afterwards.

So this is how it works.

And it's really amazing, amazing simple tool,
where we get the word in.

And now we look at this.

Anyone who loves their father and mother more
than me are not worthy of me.

Anyone who loves their son and daughter more
than me is not worthy of me, whoever does

not take up their cross and follow me, is
not worthy of me, whoever finds their life

will loose it and whoever loses their life
for my sake, will find it.

And then conversations start.

That is a really strong verse and then one
maybe add without going far away, yet the

bible says that in another place if you don't
hate your mom and dad, but this is actually

what Jesus means that our love to him should
be so much more than our love to our mom and

dad.

Yeah, but that was also what Jesus said on
one time, like who's my mom?

Who's my dad?

Those who do the will of God and so on, it
is not that he hate them, but there is a spiritual

family here and some people like I'm not there.

I'm not there like I love my mom and dad more
than I love Jesus.

Some people maybe or maybe I actually love
my job more than I love Jesus.

But what does that mean then, if you love
your job more than you love Jesus?

That means I'm not worthy of him, like, that
is very radical and sometimes it is quiet

and you pray and you think about it.

Some people open up, I'm not, I don't think
I'm there yet.

What do we need to do to come there?

And we go to the next verse, talk about counting
the cost.

And you let the Bible speak to you.

And the first day we took very clear scripture
about discipleship and why?

Because it's so good to really lay a foundation
and then maybe they're not ready first time,

but continue.

Please continue in this disciple group with
us and let the Holy Spirit convince you, so

you come to that point that you are ready
to take up the cross and follow him, because

this is what we need to do if we otherwise
we are not worthy of him and let the scripture

speak and let the Holy Spirit work.

And what you do, you spend that time on the
verses.

And we often say you spend around an hour,
take around an hour where you let the verses

speak and then let the verses speak to you,
after an hour, you can take a time in prayer.

Let's take a little time to pray and you just
pray and let the Holy Spirit lead you.

After the first day, where we talk about discipleship,
that are followers of Christ, not converts.

After an hour then maybe have a general prayer,
then you still have like a good half hour,

40 minutes left.

If you use 20 minutes in the beginning, use
one hour on the scripture.

You still have like a forty minutes left where
it could be beautiful, especially if there

are really new people with testimonies, where
some people say, I would like to share testimonies

today.

And you have maybe prepared some people from
the team who are leading it to share some

testimonies.

Let me share testimony.

I was I in church for many, many years and
I was a Convert, I have said yes, but I was

not a disciple.

I am really not said yes.

I'm really not taking my cross up.

And when I became a disciple, when Jesus got
the first place in my life, it just changed

everything.

And then those people share about their life
from being a convert to becoming a disciple.

And they share their testimony, other people
share the testimony, share a little more about

what a disciple is and those people who are
new in that life, wow I just hear the word

we saw, we read in the Bible, became alife
through those testimonies.

And then you can minister to each other if
you feel like and pray for another, anyone

need healing?

Anyone need freedom?

And actually you start to minister to people
already in the beginning.

So there is room to do more, but every group
is dependent on, the focus is those people

who are there.

So it's not a method, it's not a model where
you always do the same and same and same exactly.

It depends on who's there.

If there are new people knowing nothing, You
spend more time with them and talk about,

if there is the issue, spend time on share
testimony.

You can pray for people if there are people
who are sick, if there is no one who is sick

you maybe not pray for people for healing
like that.

But you do other things.

So spend time and talk about it and this and
then you say: OK, look forward to see you

next time.

Take this card with you home, put it in the
Bible and read the verses and think of it

and see you next time.

And then they go home and they have time to
pray about it and meditate and think of the

verses they have heard.

And then you come next time, spend 20 minutes,
10-20 minutes or a half hour.

Hey, how is it?

And here are some short testimony.

People can maybe say who they are a little,
introduce themselves a little more.

Share anyone have a strong experience that
last week?

Yes.

This and this and this about being a disciple
or anyone who have thought about it?

Yes, I thought a lot about it and this and
this and spend a little time.

But again, the leader's job is somehow help
to not get off track and to be led by the

Holy spirit.

And then today we are going to focus.

Let's go to the scripture, today we are going
to look at repentance.

Let's start with the first verse here.

And this is Matthew 4,17.

Who wants to read it?

You read.

Everyone go to the bible: From that time on,
Jesus began to preach: Repent, for the kingdom

of God has come near.

What does that say about God?

That Jesus, that the first verse that came
was Repent.

That was actually the first word that came
out of his mouth.

Why should repent for the Kingdom of God have
come near.

OK.

And we talked a little about it.

Does it say anything about us?

Not directly here, but still we know that
we are put here in Christs place.

And maybe the first word that should come
out of our mouth is also repent.

Do you say anything, is there anything we
need to do then?

We need to preach repentance to people.

OK, let's move on and then you speak about
scripture, next verse.

You can take next verse.

Here is John 3,7-9.

And we read here, John the Baptist he said:
John said to a crowd coming out to be baptized

by him: You brood of vipers!

Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

And do not say to yourself, we have Abraham
as our father, for I tell you, out of these

stones, God can raise up children for Abraham.

The ax is already at the root of the tree,
and every tree who do not produce good fruit

will be cut down and thrown into a fire.

What does that say about God?

That there is a wrath coming from God?

What does it say about man?

Anything we need to do?

Yes, it says that produce fruit, keeping with
a repentance, this fruit we need to produce.

And it says that we should not come with excuses,
don't say to yourself, I have Abraham as father.

So today, will we say that or is there anything
else we would say maybe?

Or don't say to yourself, I'm going in a church.

Don't say to yourself, I'm already a Christian.

If the fruit is not there, then we will be
cut down and thrown into the fire.

It's not about confession and what we are
saying, it is about the fruit.

Anything else is saying?

John, he said to the crowd who came out to
be baptized by him.

So maybe we should not baptize people who
have not repented.

That was a good one.

And you talk about scripture, then you go
to Scripture acts 3,19: Repent then and turn

to God so that your sins may be wiped out
that times of refreshing may come from the

Lord.

So repentance and then turn to God.

So repentance is a turn away from sin, but
it's also turning to God.

OK, why do we turn away from our sin and turn
to God?

So our sins may be wiped out.

Can our sins be wiped out without repentance?

No, no, no.

And then you go to scripture and you let scripture
speak to people.

This is the highest authority we have.

That is the word of God, the scripture is
not a man and his translation is scripture.

And people cannot say, I disagree with your
interpretation.

And I actually did not share any interpretation.

I just read what the scripture was saying.

So if you disagree, then talk with the guy
behind the scripture, talk with God about,

it's not man, you are against, it is God,
you are against, if you disagree with this.

Can see it, can you see how powerful it becomes,
when you just let scripture speak?

And after second day, second week there, when
you look at repentance, then afterward there

could be testimony time, where somebody could
say, yeah, I want to share.

And you have maybe already prepared a little
testimony time, that I want to share something,

that I've been in church for years, but I
never I never really repented.

I did not see sin, in my church they only
talk about the love of God, love of God, love

of God.

Never heard anything about sin.

Never.

But a few years ago I heard about sin and
I read some of those verses and I repented

and I just said, it changed my life, I got
a new heart.

When I repented, I put my faith in God, I
got a new heart.

You share testimonies like that and those
who are not yet repentant they hear that,

they see: there's freedom and we have like
confess your sins, also in this and how to

repent and so on, different verses.

And then you can like, let's take a time and
just pray, can we do that?

And let's close our eyes and pray and say:God,
we pray that you reveal sin to all of us.

God come with your Holy Spirit, God, and show
us if there areas we have not repented.

If there are things we need to repent for,
show as God and take a time where the Holy

Spirit is ministering to people, let the Holy
Spirit work.

Show us, show us ,God, do we have sins, things
we need to repent for, maybe put even worship

on and have a time and let people confess
their sins in front of God.

And then you can say like and they can't be
led by the Holy Spirit.

You can say like, OK, anyone who really need
prayer about those sins and lift up your hand

and we come and pray to you.

And some people lift up their hand and you
go and you pray to them and talk with them

and lead them in a prayer repentance and minister
to them, have a time of ministry time.

And it's very, very powerful.

It is beautiful.

And then you lead them in a ministry time
and God is working in them and they are repenting.

And there you also see sometimes, those two
hours are not enough.

So you can ask somebody say, hey, do you want
to stay back and let's talk a little more?

Or you go say, hey, can we meet during this
week one to one and do a little one to one

discipleship about repentance during the week?

And then, so keep open, that there will be
times you meet outside this evening or this

afternoon or day when you meet, because you
will need that.

It will be important to have room to meet
with people other times, one to one, and do

a one on one repentance or discipleship.

And already there, fourth week is baptism
in water but if there are people fully repented

and cry out and just ready to be baptized.

Then you go.

So just of course, during the week, take and
baptize and don't hold them two more weeks

to be baptized.

So it will be a little individual thing that
come up also.

And the way people, who are already there
maybe repent, get better, receive the Holy

Spirit.

So be open for it, have a place ready to baptize,
see how the Holy Spirit is lead.

So maybe that will be one, who already understand
the rest and beeing baptized in water and

receive Holy Spirit second week.

But there are more people not ready yet?

They are looking and following that transformation,
that is happening.

Third week: fear toward God.

Talk about that fourth week: baptism in water.

And of course, there you have prepared the
baptism in water and people share testimonies

afterwards, when they got baptized and what
that did, fifth week: baptism with the Holy

Spirit.

But of course, many people already receive
the Holy Spirit, when they got baptized in

water.

But some people did not maybe and some people
have been baptized, but they received the

Holy Spirit the fifth week and then after
those first five weeks, the foundation is

really laid.

And many, many people have already now been
born again.

They have understood, that it's about being
a follower of Christ, disciple, not just a

convert, they have understood, what repentance
is, faith toward God, what baptism is, what

the baptism with the Holy Spirit is.

And they have already repented or got baptized
or received the Holy Spirit and it is beautiful.

Some people maybe have given up, it happens,
but work with those who stay.

Then you come to the sixth week.

Now the foundation is laid.

So now then you get to know each other, so
you can maybe more go faster into to the scripture,

because you know each other and so on and
spend more time with sharing testimonies also

about what happened during the week, how people
met God and so on.

But go into the scripture and then in the
second part, there is maybe not so much ministry

time to each other, because you already experience
freedom and healing and deliverance and all

of that.

So there will be more time where you say,
OK, let's let's start to make disciples, let's

train you now and in sharing the gospel and
there you, many of the groups we work, we

train people in how to share the gospel with
the cops and cookies or the cops we use or

the gospel cards you can find.

I can put a link in here.

You can see the Gospel Cards and, you know,
sit down with them and take a half hour, say,

let's go to the gospel cards, because with
all of you and you sit two and two and go

to the gospel cards.

So it becomes a discipleship course, where
you spend time of welcomes, you spend time

on the word, you can also eat together of
course, you go also to share communion and

spend a little time on that.

But then you go in and you train people to
how to share the gospel and start to get their

mind and prepare them for sharing this with
other people.

It's around week six.

You start to look who could be the leaders,
who could run the next disciple groups.

And you start to take those people with you
and start to prepare them and train them to

be able to lead the next disciple course,
the Discovery Bible course.

So the last three weeks, six, seven, eight,
there'll be more and more training, more and

more hands on.

And week eight, of course, preach the gospel,
healing the sick, cast out demons, there will

be ministry time.

But you also go out on the street maybe and
take another time besides this, you have done

that already before if you want, of course.

But take people out and kickstart them out
on the street and really disciple them in

that and then you already there prepare for
the next disciple course.

And during those eight weeks, people have
been born again, transformed, set free, healed.

They had been sharing their experience with
other people.

You can invite new people in after second
week if you want, first and second week, but

after week three four, don't invite more people
in, better say, hey, we will start another

Bible Discovery Group with you and other people
and maybe even start that midways a new group

with other people.

So you now send some of your disciples and
say: Can you start with those?

So you had two groups running side by side
and then even three, four, five groups, because

it's multiplication.

It is discipleship, we are talking about here.

It is beautiful.

And then you start the next Bible Discovery
Group with people and they go through the

same.

And those people who start joining the group,
can later maybe be leader in another group

and those who join then can maybe be leader
in another group.

And you start to network between the groups
and help each other.

And we want to help you to do this.

We have many groups starting all over America
right now and it is growing and it is multiplying.

And we are all excited for this.

We are here to help you to start this.

What we are seeing is, that the best way to
learn is to just do it, jump out.

And I've already given so much information
in this video, with this video and get hold

of the cards through the website.

You can already start to do it.

But we also want to hear from you, who are
doing Bible discovery groups, because what

we are setting up is Zoom groups of people
in different regions and different areas,

who are doing the Bible discovery groups,
where they can share with other people, who

are also doing the Bible Discovery Group and
where we have people with us, who are working

with us, who are ready to train you, ready
to give you feedback for example I have several

WhatsApp groups.

I am in right now, where I am getting questions
were like, oh, we had a guy in the group,

where it just went crazy.

He discussed with the baptism: What shall
we do?

And I said, give them feedback.

In another place they were invited to actually
hosted in a church.

But the youth leader of the church came and
he took completely over and it ended up becoming

a sermon from him instead of what he was supposed
to be.

And the one who led the group had never led
it before.

And it's so good to be in contact with us
and she asedk: What shall I do?

And I said: This is what you should do.

Just leave the church, go away from church,
meet in a home instead, because it's much

easier, be clear with the paster, the youth
leader, he is welcome if he doesn't do this

and is because we are not here to fill up
his church.

We are here to make disciples.

So we want to encourage people.

And there are even churches who are doing
this and we help them there.

So every person, every place is different.

And therefore we together with this, we have
a link to our page with many more videos and

much more information, that will come out
soon and where you can fill up a form and

let us know, if you have started these Bible
discovery groups and you want us to help you

and connect you with other people, who are
starting the same Bible discovery groups.

And then we set up Zoom calls, weekly meetings,
training, discipleship, where we can help

and disciple you to go through those eight
weeks with people and so on.

I would have so much more to say.

But we come out with more videos about, I
know is already an hour I have spoken, but

we come out with more videos about it later.

When you are going through the Bible Discovery
Group two, three, four times, there is more

you need to cover of course.

There is so much more in christian life than
this, for example in these verses.

It doesn't talk about how it is to be a family.

It doesn't talk about marriage, sex, relationship.

We don't talk about being parents.

It don't talk about everyday walk with Christ
in that sense, there's so many things, that

is not covered here.

And that's why that the first step is start
our Jesus fellowship, where you go even deeper

into many other verses.

And there it can be the same model with other
verses.

But it can also be a very different model,
where you do more outreach together, You live

together in communities, You eat a big meal
together, that is actually what communion

is, Communion is a big meal you eat to, to
have fellowship and they can take an hour,

two hours in itself.

And sometimes you don't have that time to
do, You don't have that time here to have

a big meal that way.

So.

Step one in this paper is go to the Kickstart
package, and I really encourage you to see

the seven lessons, follow the link in this
description.

If you're not done that you will be blessed,
it is so much more different than a kickstart

weekend, hosting a kickstart weekend.

And that could be step one.

Step two or step two.

could be step one.

Start this group.

Invite people or find people near you.

Invite them over or ask them, if you want
to go to a eight weeks program with us, then

you go through it, you reach out to us through
the link to the website and let us know where

you are and how, when you start and how many
people you are and if you need help and what

help.

We even have people now who start to travel
around, especially in America but also in

other countries, who is traveling from place
to place and working with, helping to set

up these groups, but also beside helping set
up those groups, helping to transcend from

this group into the Jesus fellowships.

So we have people and resources and a lot
of tools out there ready to help and equip

you.

So I'm excited for it.

If you have questions and comments ask it,
you can ask the questions and comments also

below in this video.

And we will do more videos later, where we
will answer some of the questions and comments

you may have.

So this is just the first video out of many,
where we are looking at this and the next

video will be follow up video where we go
into questions and answers and so on.

And there will be also videos where we showed
a Zoom call with those people who have already

done it and share their experiences and so
on.

So many more things are on the way and we
are excited for it.

So look at the text, look at the links together
with the video, get the cards, get started.

If you don't want to get the cards, you can
just write down the scriptures and make your

own cards.

It's all about Jesus, all about the kingdom.

We are here to help you, to see the kingdom
of God grow.

God bless you.

Spread this video!

Just a little thing.

Just a little thing.

Last thing: The testimonies we are seeing
are amazing.

Everyone loves this, people in our network,
especially the Last reformation has seen so

much fruit and we have needed this to really
continue working with those people, we have

met out there, because many people sometimes
have been on Kickstart and what is the next

step?

Or they have reached out to people and learn
to heal the sick, to cast out demons and lead

them to God.

But what is the next step?

What do I now do with it?

This is what you do with them.

This is the next step for all of you out there.

Maybe I should call the video: the next step.

I think I'll do that the next step is the
Bible.

Discovery groups, Kickstart package or something
like that.

Last thing: I just need to add, this is already
translated to Spanish on our website, and

we are also translating this soon to other
languages.

If you want to help this to be translated
to other languages, you can reach out to us

and you will soon get this on our website
in many, many different languages.

God bless you all out there.

Share this video with everyone out there and
stay tuned.

See the links, stay tuned.

When we come out with the next videos.

Bye bye.

God bless you in it.