Mission Toolbox

Committed to making disciples of Jesus.

We have committed as a church, Redemption North Davis, to see every member making disciples of Jesus among all nations (Matt. 28:18-20; 2 Tim. 2:2; Ps. 67:1-2; Rev. 7:9-10). Every disciple of Christ is called to engage the lives of people who are far from God, to evangelize them with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to disciple new believers as they learn to follow Jesus and live in His community, the church.

Our hope is that the tools, resources, and ideas provided in this toolbox will serve to assist our members as they engage, evangelize, and disciple people in North Davis and beyond. For any member or Community Group interested in training and equipping in any of the tools in these toolboxes, feel free to reach out to Daniel Williams at danielw@redemptionutah.com. May God grant you boldness and favor as you “Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!” (Ps. 96:3)

Engage

1. LEARN ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY
  • Make a list of people in your five social networks who are far from God.
    • Where you work (Vocational Network)
    • Where you live (Geographical)
    • Where you play (Recreational/Relational)
    • Where you shop (Commercial)
    • Your family (Familial)
  • Use a strategic mapping tool such as Peoplegroups.info, a strategic resource to help churches identify and engage the unreached peoples in their communities. It is a collaborative map that highlights points of interest (religious centers, ethnic restaurants, etc.) and areas of population density that can be filtered by people group. Helpful for community groups to find diverse people groups in the SLC area.
2. MEET PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY
  • Be a regular.
    • Visit the same coffee shop, gas station, grocery store, barber, restaurants, etc. around the same times and get to know the staff and other regulars.
  • Go for a walk!
    • Walk in your neighborhood regularly and around the same time. Take your dog or your family. Be attentive to those who are outside as well and strike up conversation with them.
  • Join in on a community event/sports league/hobby group.
    • Do what you love to do and do it with non-Christians. Host a game night in your neighborhood, play basketball at a public court, or join a book club.
  • Eat with co-workers.
    • Instead of eating alone during lunch, get to know your co-workers by eating lunch together. Invite them to get dinner with you after work. Bring coffee and/or donuts for breakfast one morning.
3. PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY
  • Prayer-Walk your community.
    • Take others with you to pray for your community. Pray for people and places as you see them. Meditate on and pray the words of Scripture. All the while, be attentive to the people passing by, share with them that you are praying for the community, and ask if there is anything they need prayer for. These are great opportunities to share the gospel with the community even as we pray for it.
  • Regularly ask neighbors, co-workers, family members, waitresses, etc. for things you can pray for them.
    • Write their requests in your prayer journal. Be diligent to pray for these matters and then make it a point to follow up with them every so often. Use these opportunities to speak of the Lord’s goodness, power, grace, and mercy through the gospel.
  • Use an app to organize your prayer lists.
    • BlessEveryHome – A tool to aid in strategically praying for your neighborhood and immediate community. Offers daily reminder emails and a neat color-coded tracking feature to record which neighbor you have prayed for, cared for, and shared with.
    • PrayerMate – A tool that helps organize your prayer list in a digital “index cards system” by separating your prayer list into categories (i.e. family, spouse, neighbors, co-workers, pastors, community group members, missionaries, etc.) from which a daily prayer list is automatically and conveniently generated.
4. SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY
  • Volunteer with one of the ministries RND partners with.
    • ESL — We are in the process of establishing an ongoing English as a Second Language (ESL) ministry as a way to serve and build relationships with internationals in the area. If you would like to be a part of helping us with this, reach out to danielw@redemptionutah.com.
    • Fish N’ Loaves Food Pantry — Donate food/supplies or serve as a driver to deliver supplies to a family in need.
    • Bountiful Food Pantry — Donate food/supplies or volunteer to collect, sort, and distribute donations to people in need.
    • Journey Clinic — Volunteer to be a Patient Advocate or Volunteer Nurse.
    • We are still building a list of partner ministries in the area, but for a more updated list and for opportunities to serve alongside them, email danielw@redemptionutah.com.
  • Help your neighbors.
    • Help them move-in/-out. Help them fix their car or offer to look after their kids. Let neighbors know if you have a certain knack or skill and offer to help them anytime.
  • Serve your co-workers.
    • Cover someone’s shift. Offer to carpool with co-workers who live nearby. Bring in coffee and bagels once a month.
5. HOST AN EVENT IN YOUR COMMUNITY
  • Designate an open dinner night each week to which anyone in the neighborhood is invited.
  • Offer swimming lessons to those in your neighborhood.
  • Organize an office party for your co-workers.
  • Have a cookout on the lawn/in the grill area of your apartment complex and offer burgers/hotdogs to passersby.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR ENGAGEMENT
126 Simple Ways To Be Missional  — This helpful resource suggests a plethora of ideas—126 to be exact!—for how a church can be missional in the neighborhood, in the workplace, in the community, and in the city!
Across the Street and Around the World: Ideas to Spark Missional Focus by Diana Davis and Autumn Wall — A practical book full of suggestions on how individuals, small groups, and whole churches can engage not only the community around them but also the community abroad! Ideas are organized by the amount of time needed: one hour, one day, one week, long term, etc.

Evangelize

1. PRAY FOR THEM
  • Prayer-Walk your community.
    • Take others with you to pray for your community. Pray for people and places as you see them. Meditate on and pray the words of Scripture. All the while, be attentive to the people passing by, share with them that you are praying for the community, and ask if there is anything they need prayer for. These are great opportunities to share the gospel with the community even as we pray for it.
  • Regularly ask neighbors, co-workers, family members, waitresses, etc. for things you can pray for them.
    • Write their requests in your prayer journal. Be diligent to pray for these matters and then make it a point to follow up with them every so often. Use these opportunities to speak of the Lord’s goodness, power, grace, and mercy through the gospel.
  • Use an app to organize your prayer lists.
    • BlessEveryHome – A tool to aid in strategically praying for your neighborhood and immediate community. Offers daily reminder emails and a neat color-coded tracking feature to record which neighbor you have prayed for, cared for, and shared with.
    • PrayerMate – A tool that helps organize your prayer list in a digital “index cards system” by separating your prayer list into categories (i.e. family, spouse, neighbors, co-workers, pastors, community group members, missionaries, etc.) from which a daily prayer list is automatically and conveniently generated.
2. INVITE THEM
  • Invite them to your home.
    • Invite them to dinner, a game/movie night, a weekly kids’ playtime, or a crafts night in your home.
  • Invite them to join you in a hobby or come with you to an event.
    • Invite them to join the city basketball league with you, to come with you to a local concert, or to go shop together at the Farmers’ Market.
  • Invite them to visit your church.
    • Invite them to visit during a Sunday morning corporate worship gathering or to a get-together with your community group.
3. GIVE GOSPEL-CENTERED RESOURCES TO THEM
  • Give them a book that clearly explains the Christian faith.
  • Give them a copy of the Gospel of John.
  • Give them a copy of the Bible.
    • We have plenty of softcover ESV Bibles under the seats in the corporate worship room—feel free to take one and give it to a friend/neighbor/family member!
    • Point them to a Bible app such as Bible.is (iPhone), a Bible app produced by Faith Comes By Hearing. It contains translations of almost every language that has already been translated into portions of Scripture. For Android, click here.
  • Send them short films that tell the gospel story such as Jesus Film or The Story .
    • Jesus Film (iPhone) – This app has the classic Jesus Film, a two hour movie of the life of Christ as told in the Gospel of Luke. Has translations of the film in over 1,700 languages. For Android, click here.
    • The Story (iPhone) – A short five-minute film that shares the gospel in most of the major languages of the world. For Android, click here.
4. SERVE THEM
  • Volunteer with one of the ministries RND partners with.
    • ESL — We are in the process of establishing an ongoing English as a Second Language (ESL) ministry as a way to serve and build relationships with internationals in the area. If you would like to be a part of helping us with this, reach out to danielw@redemptionutah.com.
    • Fish N’ Loaves Food Pantry — Donate food/supplies or serve as a driver to deliver supplies to a family in need.
    • Bountiful Food Pantry — Donate food/supplies or volunteer to collect, sort, and distribute donations to people in need.
    • Journey Clinic — Volunteer to be a Patient Advocate or Volunteer Nurse.
    • We are still building a list of partner ministries in the area, but for a more updated list and for opportunities to serve alongside them, email danielw@redemptionutah.com.
  • Help your neighbors.
    • Help them move-in/-out. Help them fix their car or offer to look after their kids. Let neighbors know if you have a certain knack or skill and offer to help them anytime.
  • Serve your co-workers.
    • Cover someone’s shift. Offer to carpool with co-workers who live nearby. Bring in coffee and bagels once a month.
5. SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH THEM
  • Share your testimony with them.
    • Develop and share your “15-Second Testimony.” Share this quick version of your testimony with the waitress at your favorite restaurant, with your co-workers at lunch, or with your neighbor at the playground. [See an example of this tool from SEBTS]
  • “Weave the gospel” into your everyday conversations.
    • Threads – This 29-page booklet produced by the Church at Brook Hills is designed to aid small groups in “weaving” the gospel into every day life and ministry. It includes practical tips, reflection, and discussion sections and is accompanied by a 10-part sermon series delivered by Jim Shaddix and David Platt in 2013. [Follow along with the corresponding Sermon Series]
  • Use a simple visual aid to help share the gospel.
    • The Three Circles (iPhone) – A quick and reproducible evangelism tool produced by the SBC’s North American Mission Board. Though the Three Circles was originally designed to be drawn out on a napkin or a spare piece of paper on hand while the believer presents the gospel, this app can be used as well. The app can also be used to assist believers in training others to share the gospel using the Three Circles tool. For Android, click here.
    • The Story (iPhone) – A short five-minute film that shares the gospel in most of the major languages of the world. For Android, click here.
    • Jesus Film (iPhone) – This app has the classic Jesus Film, a two hour movie of the life of Christ as told in the Gospel of Luke. Has translations of the film in over 1,700 languages. For Android, click here.
HELPFUL BOOKS ON EVANGELISM

Disciple

1. READ THE BIBLE TOGETHER
  • Pick a book of the Bible to go through together.
  • Pray through I.O.U.S. before each time you read together.
    • “Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!” (Ps. 119:36 ESV)
    • “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.” (Ps. 119:18 ESV)
    • “Unite my heart to fear your name.” (Ps. 86:11b ESV)
    • “Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” (Ps. 90:14 ESV)
  • Use the COMA method (Context, Observation, Meaning, Application) to ask good interpretive questions about the biblical text.
  • Read through and apply One to One Bible Reading by David Helm.
2. MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE TOGETHER
  • Memorize verses from the biblical text you are studying each week.
  • Utilize a systematic scripture memory aid:
3. GO THROUGH A GOSPEL-CENTERED CURRICULUM TOGETHER
  • Deepen Discipleship — an intensive and interactive New Testament reading plan produced by the SBC’s International Mission Board meant to be carried out and discussed in community.
  • Knowing the Bible — a series of Bible study guides produced by Crossway.
  • Discipleship Essentials: A Guide to Building Your Life in Christ by Greg Ogden — Designed for one-on-one discipleship or in groups of three, this book includes Q&A’s, guides for Scripture memory and for Bible study, and addresses the essentials of the disciple’s faith in Christ.
  • Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples by Francis Chan — This book is designed as a teaching aid in discipleship relationships. It is accompanied by a series of videos in which Chan and David Platt discuss the chapter that’s being considered.
  • Commands of Christ (CoC) — CoC is a simple early discipleship tool that lays out a basic set of commands that Jesus gives to his disciples alongside of a story from the Gospels or the book of Acts where that command was obeyed by his disciples. It also offers a helpful guide to the leader in how one can structure the meeting time.
  • Discovery Bible Studies (DBS) — a two page resource developed by Crossway that suggests a three-section structure for each discipleship meeting around the acrostic “ABC”: Ask, Bible, and Commit.
4. MEET TOGETHER FOR PRAYER AND ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Pray Together:
    • Pray through Scripture
      • Check out the method presented in Praying the Bible by Donald S. Whitney for praying the words of the Bible, verse-by-verse.
  • Structure your prayer time around the acronym “ACTS”
    • Adoration: Praise God for who He is and what He’s done!
    • Confession: Confess your sins together.
    • Thanksgiving: Thank God for what He’s done and for how He is working in your lives and in the lives of others.
    • Supplication: Pray for yourself, each other, and for others.
      • Pray for each other’s faithfulness, fruitfulness, and joy in the Lord.
      • Pray for each other’s cares and burdens.
      • Pray for each other’s families.
      • Pray for the members in your Community Group.
      • Pray for the other members of RND.
      • Pray for the pastors of RND.
      • Pray for missionaries, ministries, and church plants.
      • Pray for unbelieving friends, family members, and neighbors.
      • Pray for the nations.
  • Hold each other accountable to:
    • Communion with the Lord through regular prayer and reading of the Scriptures
    • Faithful obedience to the Lord
    • Consistent repentance from sin
    • Living above reproach
    • Fulfilling one’s responsibilities
    • Faithfully sharing the gospel with unbelieving neighbors, friends, and family members
    • Sample Accountability Questions:
      • Ed Stetzer compiled several example lists of accountability questions that can be found here.
  • Develop a Personal Disciple-making Plan:
    • Here is a practical, devotional, fillable sheet designed by the Church at Brook Hills to assist disciples in developing a thoughtful strategy to carry out one’s personal, spiritual disciplines in community and to reproduce disciples.
5. SERVE AND SHARE THE GOSPEL TOGETHER
  • Partner together to meet needs in each other’s missional networks.
  • Volunteer together with one of the ministries RND partners with.
    • ESL — We are in the process of establishing an ongoing English as a Second Language (ESL) ministry as a way to serve and build relationships with internationals in the area. If you would like to be a part of helping us with this, reach out to danielw@redemptionutah.com.
    • Fish N’ Loaves Food Pantry — Donate food/supplies or serve as a driver to deliver supplies to a family in need.
    • Bountiful Food Pantry — Donate food/supplies or volunteer to collect, sort, and distribute donations to people in need.
    • Journey Clinic — Volunteer to be a Patient Advocate or Volunteer Nurse.
    • We are still building a list of partner ministries in the area, but for a more updated list and for opportunities to serve alongside them, email danielw@redemptionutah.com.
  • Form an outreach team to engage an area or neighborhood of North Davis.
    • Develop regular rhythms of prayer and gospel engagement with people in designated communities in North Davis and in the SLC area.
6. READ GOOD BOOKS TOGETHER
7. OPEN YOUR HOME AND LIFE
  • Model for other disciples what it looks like to faithfully follow Christ by inviting them into the regular rhythms of your life (e.g., your home, workplace, community, recreation, church, etc.).
MORE RESOURCES FOR DISCIPLESHIP
OTHER TOOLS FOR EARLY DISCIPLESHIP
  • The Wheel is a quick, reproducible tool offered by Navigators that can be used to highlight four essential disciplines of the Christian life: Scripture Reading, Prayer, Evangelism, and Membership in a Local Church. Other basic discipleship tools can be found at www.navigators.org.

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