The Conference - Day 3

Wow!!! Today was amazing - the cummulative impact of teaching disciple-making was witnessed. In the last teaching of the day, Steve taught on "The Vocabulary of a Disciple-Maker." The pastors were very alert and listening - however, when the example of most ministries being like a person trying to fill a group of bottles by throwing a bucket of water that direction verus taking your time and filling each bottle up individually a little bulb definitely turned on! Today many of the pastors caught the understanding of multiplicative disciple-making and it was amazing! Their eyes lit up and you could tell God had opened their understanding of Jesus command to make disciples. At the end of the talk the pastors came to their feet and clapped! Many spoke of how this had deeply impacted them, how they believed this was what God wanted them to be about, how they saw this impacting India, and how this was a big idea that had changed their view of ministry! Praise God- He is good! Several talked after about how they desired to understand discipleship more - we will be sending them more materials!

Earlier in the day we visited some of the poorest neighborhoods in Bangalore. It was very difficult to see people living in such poverty. We visited a small clinic in the slums. Also, we visited some schools - in one class the second grade kids sang Christian songs to us - it was moving!