Conversion Continuum Worksheet - Ministry Exchange (MX)

Cynic to Seeker	Strategy:	Strategy:	Strategy:
Cynics are those who may	Seeking to Know and	Addressing campus	Soul
be:	Understand	Issues (Rapid Response	Awakening
Opposed to	2 Plus	Team)	Events
Jesus/Spirituality	Spring Break or UP	Building trust with	Film
Apathetic to	“Amping up”	campus organizations	Screenings and
Jesus/Spirituality	curiosity	Partnering with other	discussions
Skeptical about	Prayer Mtgs for	campus groups	Art Shows
Jesus/Spirituality	Healing	.Proxy Stations	Service
The move to a Seeker may	Contact Evangelism	Projects
look like:	Surveys	Speakers who
Asking questions about	Prayer Walks	address issues
Jesus/Spirituality	Training:	Training:	of social
Becoming aware of	What is the Gospel?	How to get involved	injustice.
their own soul	on campus?	Prayer Vigils
Beginning to Explore	Dialogue with	How to build
religions	cynics/skeptics	relationships and
Telling your story	partnerships?
Telling God’s story	How could our	Training:
fellowship do contact	.What and how
Leading a Bible	evangelism?	to do
study	follow-up?
How do you
GatheringEvangelists	call people to
respond?
Seeker to Follower	Strategy:	Strategy:	Strategy:
The move to a Follower	GIGs	Addressing campus	LG Talks
may look like:	Spring Break	Issues	Harvest
Wrestling with key	Projects	Building trust with	Events
questions that are	Answering Questions	campus organizations	Spring Break
keeping them from making	Partnering with	Projects
the decision to follow	Asking for	campus groups on
Understanding some	decisions	similar values
form of the Gospel	Offering Prayer	.Proxy Stations
message	Contact Evangelism	Training:
Making a decision to	Training:	Prayer Walks	.What and how
choose Jesus and align	Telling your story	Training:	to do
themselves with Him	Telling God’s story	How to talk about	follow-up?
IV’s mission on campus	How do you
Leading a Bible	call people to
study	faith?
How to call for a
decision
Follower to Minister	Strategy:	Strategy:	Strategy:
The move to a Minister	Inviting to serve	Identifying needs on	Service
may look like:	alongside	campus or in the	Projects
Wanting to serve in	Affirming God’s	community and inviting	Mission
some way	work in them	students to serve.	Projects
Recognizing they have	Affirming their	LG/SG
something to give	gifts	Giving
Using their gifts to	Discipleship	Training:	students roles
build God’s Kingdom	How to talk about	in pulling off
Training:	IV’s mission on campus	events
What it means to be
a disciple	Training:
How to disciple	Servanthood
someone?
Minister to Leader	Strategy:	Strategy:	Strategy:
The move to a Leader may	Pointing out their	Encouraging students	Service
look like:	influence	to take initiative	Projects
Wanting to have	Casting Vision for	Giving students	Missions
influence in seeing	Leadership	vision for their	Projects
people come to know God	Pointing out gifts	potential for Kingdom	LG/SG
Recognizing they have	Prayer mtgs focused	impact in their	Encouraging
something to offer	toward the vision	leadership roles in	students to
others	Plugging students	other orgs.	envision and
Using their gifts to	into the campus	organize events
build up the body and	mission
empower others to
minister and/or lead	Training:
Having vision and	How to have
taking initiative	influence?	Training:
Developing	Recognizing	Training:
Leadership	opportunities for the	Organizing
skills/gifts	fellowship to “get off	Events
Discovering your	the sidelines.”
spiritual gifts
Leader to World Changer	Strategy:	Strategy:	Strategy:
The move to a World	Casting vision for	Attending events	Projects
Changer may look like:	a lifetime of	addressing world issues	LG/SG
impacting the Kingdom	Speakers
Wanting to have	Co-sponsoring events	Encouraging
impact that lasts	Providing	addressing world issues	students to
forever	opportunities to	envision and
Recognizing the needs	discover gifts,	organize events
in the world and making	passions and creative
career choices	futures	Prayer Vigils
accordingly	Reading Books
Using their gifts,	Prayer mtgs focused	Training:
talents, lifestyle and	on the world	Networking	Training:
career to be the change	Organizational	Organizational
agent God is calling	Training:	Collaboration	Collaboration
them to be and bringing	Bottom-up Influence
others along with them
on the journey	Ordinary Kingdom
Building

New England’s Vision and Strategy Val Gordon Cynics ( Seekers ( Followers ( Ministers ( Leaders ( World Changers

Conversion Continuum	Strategies	Training
Cynic to Seeker
Cynics are those who may be:
Opposed to
Jesus/Spirituality
Apathetic to
Jesus/Spirituality
Skeptical about
Jesus/Spirituality
The move to a Seeker may look
like:
Asking questions about
Jesus/Spirituality
Becoming aware of their own
soul
Beginning to Explore
religions
Seeker to Follower
The move to a Follower may
look like:
Wrestling with key
questions that are keeping
them from making the decision
to follow
Understanding some form of
the Gospel message
Making a decision to choose
Jesus and align themselves
with Him
Follower to Minister
The move to a Minister may
look like:
Wanting to serve in some
way
Recognizing they have
something to give
Using their gifts to build
God’s Kingdom
Minister to Leader
The move to a Leader may look
like:
Wanting to have influence
in seeing people come to know
God
Recognizing they have
something to offer others
Using their gifts to build
up the body and empower
others to minister and/or
lead
Having vision and taking
initiative
Leader to World Changer
The move to a World Changer
may look like:
Wanting to have impact
that lasts forever
Recognizing the needs in
the world and making career
choices accordingly
Using their gifts, talents,
lifestyle and career to be
the change agent God is
calling them to be and
bringing others along with
them on the journey