{"id":1152,"date":"2013-03-14T19:58:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T23:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2013-04-05T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T14:00:38","slug":"training-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2013\/03\/14\/training-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Men"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Agutaynen<\/a>
Agutaynen reading Titus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our desire is to see our Agutaynen brothers in the Lord become lovers of God\u2019s Word and proclaimers and defenders of His Truth.\u00a0 With this desire, our team has decided to move forward in equipping and training the Agutaynen men.<\/p>\n

This month, Manfred and Stephen have asked the men to give up three mornings and come to study the book of Titus together.\u00a0 The key word is \u201ctogether\u201d.\u00a0 The missionaries and the Agutaynens are reading and listening to the book of Titus together, over and over.<\/p>\n

We try not <\/em>to teach them concerning the message found in Titus.\u00a0 Instead, we ask the Agutaynens questions and hope they give us the right answer.\u00a0 For example, we asked them, \u201cWho is the writer?\u201d or \u201cWhat was the problem with this group of believers?\u201d or \u201cWhat is the believer to do based on this verse?\u201d and finally \u201cWhat does this mean for us today?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sometimes, the Agutaynens quickly give us the correct answer.\u00a0 Other times they don\u2019t.\u00a0 But when they don\u2019t, we together read the book again.\u00a0 Each morning, after a passage has been discussed and studied together, Manfred and Stephen then give the men several opportunities to teach that passage to the group of men.<\/p>\n

\"Village<\/a>
Village man teaching the men from Titus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In many ways this has been an encouragement to everyone, both to the Agutaynen and to us the missionaries.\u00a0 \u00a0In the end, Manfred and Stephen will print an Agutaynen commentary booklet of the book of Titus.\u00a0 This commentary will be comprised mostly as a result of the hours spent together with the Agutaynens.\u00a0 Our team will also add culture notes, and cross-reference passages.\u00a0 A final check will be having the Agutaynen men look at the rough draft for proof reading and to add any comments we left out.<\/p>\n

We hope to have this commentary finished and printed within a few weeks.\u00a0 Then we will also give the men the opportunity to teach, passage by passage, through the book of Titus to the believers on Sundays.<\/p>\n

Please pray that this will encourage and strengthen the faith of the believers.\u00a0 We hope to choose another book of the New Testament and do this again, possibly in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our desire is to see our Agutaynen brothers in the Lord become lovers of God\u2019s Word and proclaimers and defenders of His Truth.\u00a0 With this desire, our team has decided to move forward in equipping and training the Agutaynen men. This month, Manfred and Stephen have asked the men to give up three mornings and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,510],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"category-prayer-request","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}