• Model. Invite people along with you to the settings where you share your faith with non-Christians.
• Train others. Lead a small group in a study about sharing the Gospel. Potential tools include :
  • Classics such as Becky Pippert’s Out of the Salt Shaker and Jim
  • Peterson’s Living Proof are still gold standards for personal evangelism, available through web portals such as Amazon.com.
• Deploy others. If a sufficient number of people are ready to take the next steps in evangelism, developing missional communities (MCs) is one of the most effective current ways to accomplish that. MCs bring together people who are already friends, or who all have a passion for sharing the Gospel among a local group, such as a neighborhood, college students at the local university, or local Kurdish refugees.
• A simple model for a missional community is Austin Stone Community Church’s 3-2-1 model, where members of the community commit to weekly spending at least three hours alone with God, two hours with an unbeliever who is part of the group that the MC is trying to reach, and one hour of prayer for the people group you’re trying to reach. The group typically meets together once every 1-4 weeks to pray, study scripture and encourage each other.

Resources for Missional Community

• The Verge Conference is a conference held annually in March in Austin and brings together many churches and leaders who are using the missional community model in their churches. Gather friends to go together; or, if this is not possible, access past Verge Conference videos free online, and discuss them.
• Mike Breen’s blog and book Launching Missional Communities (available at amazon.com) are tremendous resources for MCs.