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Branch Ministries number one goal, number one focus, number one purpose, is to bring people Heaven with us. Therefore, we preach the gospel, make disciples, and give our all until the whole world hears.

 

As Branch Ministries visits each country, Matt Coughlin, Drake Westfall, and various Branch leaders lead the preachers in the Church congregations from various communities as they gather together for discipleship (training) classes and conferences. They learn how to make disciple-making disciples.

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They learn how to share the truth of the gospel with people from all different backgrounds. From those who do not belief in the existence of God, to those who are taught falsely. To those who have been hurt and etc. They are taught how to help these people from wherever they are at in life. From there they are taught to share the gospel of Christ effectively, and then make them a disciple-making disciple.

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What Does This Look Like?

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As Branch travels through out the world, trips consists of classes being held in Church congregations where they lead the preachers and Church members from various communities as they gather together for discipleship classes.

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In these sessions, they learn how to share the truth of the gospel with people from all different backgrounds. From those who do not believe in the existence of God, to those who are taught falsely. As well as, those who have been hurt or battle with anything else.

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We teach them the right thing to say in certain situations. If someone is hurting, love on them. Then on the other side of the fence if someone is teaching against God's Word, we teach them to boldly stand up to it, and the right thing to say in defending God's Word.

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How Do We Teach This?

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The way we teach this here at Branch is through a method created by Kirk Hacker, and believe it or not the method is role playing.

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The role playing is done by one person playing the role of someone out in the world that we may run into. Someone who is lost in one of many ways. Then a member from the Church will come up and act as themselves looking to sharing the gospel with that person. This may not always be quoting scripture. Say it is someone who is very down and going through something, we teach them not to quote what God says about love, rather show that love to that person who needs it. Then through that there is now an open door to share what God says about love and to share the gospel. This can consist of multiple different scenarios. This is also explained in our

                                                       

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We will then go on to the part of training where we break down how to teach God's Word to a stranger. This may be someone they strike up a conversation with on the street, or it may be someone who is teaching God's Word falsely and they need to put a stop to it. We act these scenarios out with them in the role playing. After we do all this work we then go out into the community and shake things up for Christ as we put practice into play.

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This really is practice evangelism in a sense.  We practice sharing the gospel with each other then go out into the world to win souls.

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As a result of this we are able to see the Church grow in new ways and really spark a revival.

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How Does This Grow?

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You may be seeing all of this and be asking, "how does this spread into the whole world?" At Branch we take this teaching to every congregation that we can.

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We will teach this in a congregation, then travel across town to another congregation to teach again. Then we do so with a third congregation. This now creates an area where there are multiple Church congregations that are ready and willing to go out into town and share the gospel. Now the entire area within this space of congregations now are hearing the gospel.

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At this point each congregation goes down the road to teach the same thing, covering more ground, and we see disciples, who are making disciples. We see disciple-making disciples. Now the fire begins to spread more and more as the gospel is not just being shared but is being spread.

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Sharing the Gospel vs. Spreading the Gospel

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We hear very often, "lets's share the gospel." We agree, let's share the gospel.

However, it is important to see the difference between sharing the gospel, and spreading the gospel.

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Sharing the gospel can be done by anyone, spreading the gospel requires more than just the first person.

 

Sharing the gospel is simply one person telling another of Christ and the good news that comes from Him. Then going on to the next person, and the next. It is making disciples. Yes, this also in a sense does spread it if we are being technical, but listen to the next part in this idea...

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Spreading the gospel comes when you share with someone who then goes and shares with someone else. One person shares with 2 people, then those 2 people go and share with 2 more people each which is 2 a piece, 4 more and those 2 who shared, so 6 total. Then those 6 people go and share with 2 people each, that is 12 more and 18 total. Keep counting! This is making disciple-making disciples. Oh and not to mention... Until the whole world hears!

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