1. Reaching Unreached People Groups
Winning and discipling the first generation of converts

2. By Definition Work in a UPG is different than working among the established church
An Unreached People Group
Lacks adequate resources to evangelize their own people…
Without outside help.
This means that evangelism and discipling is the critical function for cross-cultural workers because there are no or only few local Christians for near-neighbor witness

3. Learning how to effectively share the Gospel in your target people is critical…
For your own evangelistic effectiveness
For discipling new believers
For training local Christians how to share their faith with their own people
For equipping culturally near Christians to evangelize among this people group

4. Reflect on your own practice…
How many questions did you ask and how much observation did you do before you first started sharing the Gospel with people in your host culture?

5. Thinking about our own practice…
What was the cultural origin of the way you presented the Gospel?
What was the worldview of that group?
What were the primary biblical ideas presented? What was ignored?
What was the method used to present the content?
What underlying assumptions about evangelism are revealed by the method?

6. Component Parts of a Model
The kind of UPG-a church existing among the people group or not, the cultural distance of the church existing outside the people group
Determining your role
The status of the Christian faith and history of outreach, success and failure
Prayer-spiritual warfare-signs and wonders
Worldview analysis
What is the quest?
Conversion narratives
Hunting cultural factors implicated in evangelism, conversion and discipleship
Developing the evangelism configuration-co-adhering environmental factors
Developing a contextualized message for evangelism and discipleship and experiment with CPM methods
Draw upon multiplication methods and techniques

7. Kinds of Unreached People Groups
The continuum-0 to 2% evangelical
The presence of culturally near Christians who can be mobilized
A small, ghettoized church in existence
Persecution from the state
Persecution from family
A minority defined against the majority
Issues of identity
Does a church movement AGWM relates to exist?

8. Working in a UPG that has an existing church among that people
The amphibian role
Do not work unilaterally-always build bridges and seek blessing
Avoiding redundancy and working to help with what they cannot do
Missiological discussions and planting seed-make the argument for a bigger tent and multiple modes

9. Working with a UPG where the country has a church other people groups
Train for cross-cultural outreach
Develop teams to reach the UPG but build relational connections to the other movement.

11. Prayer-spiritual warfare-signs and wonders
Character based church planting
Tithing time to Jesus-deep abiding
Prayer walking
Developing a prayer team
Illustration from Mauritania-Scripture,
healing, initial groups, relational networks

12. Research the history of outreach, success and failure
What is the history and status of the Christian faith among this people?
Research the history of outreach, success and failure

13. Worldview Analysis

14. Worldview
Culture patterns perception of reality into conceptualizations of what reality can or should be, what is to be regarded as actual, probable, possible, and impossible. These conceptualizations form what is termed the “worldview” of the culture. The worldview is the central systematization of conceptions of reality to which the members of the culture assent (largely unconsciously) and from which stems their value system. The worldview lies at the very heart of culture, touching, interacting with, and strongly influencing every other aspect of the culture.
Kraft, C. (1979). Christianity and Culture: 53

15. Worldview Definition
A worldview is all the presuppositions and assumptions you bring to bear on every decision you make in life.

16. Chris Wright on Worldview (MOG, 2006:55)
Where are we?-the nature of the world around us?
Who are we?-the essential nature of humanity?
What has gone wrong?-why is the world in such a mess?
What is the solution?-what can we do about it?

17. WORLDVIEW: “WHAT IS REAL”
Paul Hiebert says, "Worldviews are the most fundamental and encompassing views of reality shared by a people in a culture" (Transforming Worldviews, 2008, p. 84).
Every people group has a worldview--a network of beliefs that makes reality meaningful and determines how people view themselves and relate to others.

18. THE CORE OF CULTURE IS WORLDVIEW
“Worldviews are the basic stuff of human existence, the lens through which the world is seen, the blueprint for how one should live in it, and above all the sense of identity and place which enable human beings to be what they are.” N.T. Wright “The New Testament and the People of God”

19. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CULTURE & WORLDVIEW?
Culture may be likened to the total game Worldview is the unseen set of rules that determine how the game is played

20. Why worldview analysis is so important
Why worldview analysis is so important. When we share with people that we have overlap with, it is easier to create understanding. But when there is no overlap, we are not understood.

22. What is done? What is true? What is real? WORLDVIEW BELIEFS VALUES
BEHAVIOR
What is done?
VALUES
What is good or best?
BELIEFS
What is true?
WORLDVIEW
What is real?

23. Worldview Analogies
Worldview lenses

24. Our worldview is the rails on which our lives run.
Worldview Analogies
Our worldview is the rails on which our lives run.

26. Hofstede-Culture: Software of the Mind
Symbols-words, gestures, pictures, objects that carry a particular meaning for people sharing that culture
Heroes-persons who are alive, dead or imaginary that possess characteristics that are highly prized and serve as models for behavior.

27. Hofstede-Culture: Software of the Mind
Rituals-collective activities
Hofstede places symbols, heroes and rituals under the category of practices. These are visible to outsiders, but their meaning is invisible. Practices are interpreted and understood by insiders.
Values-form the core of culture. “Values are broad tendencies to prefer certain states of affairs over others.”

28. What is the quest?
Finding starting points that make sense to them. Good news in their worldview.
Lack of fit and gaps, cultural longings
Observe, listen, question, move past observed behavior to understand how they are making meaning
ILLUSTRATION-these are good questions, but they are not our questions
4 spiritual laws-key quest is plan for life
Evangelism explosion-key quest, life after death
Western explanation of the Gospel-Jesus gives you meaning and purpose
Majority world-Jesus is stronger, conversion as a step up
Great Tradition religions-??
ILLUSTRATION-my dukkha project

29. From Anita Koeshall on Cultural Exegesis
Key Areas to Look Into
What are the myths/rituals/ religions that people participate in?
Have you seen in the interviews what role these play in his life?
Has your teacher kept his religion private, or does he talk openly about it?
What does he believe about God?
What rituals are part of the culture?
Do these rituals continue to carry original meaning, or are they only culturally or socially important?
Is there one major belief system in your culture or many?
How important is religion to the identity of the people? The nation?
Is religion a private affair, as in the USA? Or does it permeate every aspect of life?
From Anita Koeshall on Cultural Exegesis

30. From Anita Koeshall on Cultural Exegesis
Key Areas to Look Into
Do ordinary people have access to religious knowledge and power?
Is it monopolized by a group of religious leaders?
Can people who strongly hold different religious beliefs be friends?
How does religion affect:
Community and family power?
The use of social space?
Ideas about pure and impure?
Female and male relationships?
 Does the major religion support the present political system or undermine it?
What are the fears and anxieties reflected in your culture?
 How do the people use religion, rituals and/or myths to control uncertainties in life?
From Anita Koeshall on Cultural Exegesis

31. Conversion Narratives-How is God bringing people to faith?

32. Conversion narratives…
Demographic info
When did you actually here the Gospel first time, what is the chronology? What was your reaction? What drew you to seek more?
When and how, what pushed them across?
Why were you willing to believe and identify with something outside your community?
Who is involved-the human vectors?
ILLUSTRATION-the importance of observing and listening to what God is doing. The story in Chiang Mai about pastors doing tracting for evangelism but seeing God bring people to faith by a process.

33. Conversion narratives…
When did you decide to follow Jesus? Unpack your thoughts, emotions, experiences.
What happened after your conversion?
How did you fellowship?
What are the costs?
What are the barriers?
How do you share faith with others?
What stories and illustrations do you use to share your faith?

35. Cultural Factors that Impact Evangelism, Conversion, and Discipleship
The structure of relationships
How messages are transmitted
How decision-making is done
How are friendships built and maintained
Reciprocity and obligation
How is identity constructed and what are the key markers?

36. ILLUSTRATION-The Christian worldview from Ephesian 2:1-10

38. View evangelism and discipleship as a seamless process, not a point in time event. It is not serial but parallel-doing everything all the time, not in step-by-step order

39. Authentic Relationship with Christ +
Close Proximity +
Clear Communication=
MAXIMUM IMPACT

40. The Configuration/Environment that Facilitates Response to the Gospel
Prayer
Relationship, Trust, Credibility
Encounters with Power, Truth and Allegiance
Ask questions-does this work?
Share content and monitor for understanding
Invite people to experience the community of faith and “overhear” God’s grace
Invite to formal gatherings (church)
Methodologies of disciple making movements

41. Prayer
Relationships
Message contextualization
Community
Power encounter

42. Building a context-sensitive presentation of the Gospel
Finding their starting points
Flexibility
Drawing upon and challenging their worldview
Using objections and scripts as dialogue points
Viewing it as a process

45. A toolkit for discipleship issues

46. Periphery
Core
Core

47. Moving from a point in time view to a journey/process view
Build evangelism around existing relational networks
Make space in your life to develop redemptive relationships
Forefront faith, make it natural
Three crises make people look up: relational, economic, physical
Share personal testimony and Gospel content at open moments
Learn to pray for people on the spot

48. Defining Oikos-Relational NetworksMe
Family
Close Friends
People I associate with-work, school, play

49. List the people in your oikosMe

50. Integrating Insights from Church Planting Movement Methods and Techniques
Disciple to conversion
Discovery Bible Study Method
Any 3-basic evangelism as a filter
Oral storying of the Bible
Obedience oriented-lay driven
Simple meeting format
Constant training