The MLT is Forefront's 8-lesson, experiential training that equips everyday believers in cross-cultural disciple-making. It emphasizes biblical principles, discovery-based learning, and practical application. Everyone who goes through an MLT receives a Team Member Workbook to guide them through the training.
Each one has three parts: work on your own, time with your team, and something you go and do.
Teams can be smaller or bigger than this, but 8 to 12 is the ideal number of people.
1 or 1.5 hour meetings, with the off week left open for the Experience.
To grow in love and obedience to Jesus as you actively learn how to share the gospel and make disciples cross-culturally.
To be better equipped to reach your neighborhood, workplace, and community with the gospel.
To have a more biblical foundation for the mission of God, and to learn practical ways to make an impact for his Kingdom.
To learn alongside others who want to grow in evangelism and disciple-making.
Every lesson has the same three parts. The shape stays the same all the way through, so after the first one you always know what is coming.
A short piece of reading and reflection before the meeting. Teams that meet for an hour and a half cover this together instead.
Half the time is spent in accountability groups, where you discuss how you applied what you learned from the previous meeting. The other half is spent learning a new principle of disciple-making.
The most important part of the MLT is applying the principles. We call this the Experience, and each of the 8 lessons has one. This is where personal and community transformation really happen.
You do the Pre-Work on your own beforehand, and the meeting stays tight. Good for teams with full calendars.
The Pre-Work happens together in the meeting. Nothing to do between sessions except the Experience.
Community transformation happens when everyday believers take simple steps of obedience.
You learn, you apply, and you come back and share how it went. Then the rhythm starts again.
The team gathers for Lesson 1.
No meeting. You complete the Lesson 1 Experience in your community.
The team gathers to debrief how the Experience went, and to learn a new disciple-making principle.
No meeting. You complete the Lesson 2 Experience in your community.
Eight lessons at that pace, about four months to complete the MLT
Here are four of the eight lessons. Each lesson pairs something you learn with something you go and do.
The experiencePrayer-walking somewhere in your community.
The experienceSharing your testimony with someone in your community.
The experienceBible storytelling.
The experienceLeading a Discovery Bible Study.
The other four cover an openly spiritual lifestyle, God's vision for the nations, the Holy Spirit, and perseverance.
Most teams are 8 to 12 people, though smaller and larger ones work fine. Every team has a facilitator, usually a Forefront staff member or someone who has already been through an MLT themselves.
If someone on the team is stuck getting their own ministry moving, the facilitator will often go out with them and model it rather than explain it again. Teammates do this for each other too.
Team outreaches are optional and make the most sense when people's ministries overlap, a shared workplace, a neighborhood, a people group. They are also just a good way for a team to get to know each other.
God has brought the nations here. We can help you reach them.
Tell us where you are and we will let you know about MLTs forming near you, or help you start one.
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