Winning the World

Ses s i on 3: Al ternat i ve Forms of Sp i r i tua l i t y and Chur ch 53

c. Rooted discipleship training carefully tied to house church leaders and simple, reproducible curriculum (e.g., see the First Discipleship Training Center Curriculum , Garrison, p. 57)

(1) Genesis 1-10

(2) The Life of Christ

(3) The Book of Romans

(4) The Book of Jonah

(5) The Book of Ephesians

(6) How to Study the Bible

(7) How to Teach the Bible

(8) Personal Evangelism Training

d. Creative training with virtually few or none of the basic supplies taken for granted in Western contexts of training: e.g., pens, paper, Bible, food, sleep, space for training, etc., pp. 57-58

e. Operating in a tenuous environment with the State Religious Affairs Bureau and its directors, p. 59

6. The Yanyin Chinese CPM was characterized by widespread personal and mass evangelism, with immediate incorpora tion of new believers into basic discipleship Bible studies for a short period of time, p. 61.

a. At the conclusion of the studies, new believers were baptized.