Life-on-Life Missional Disciple-Making Survey

Thank you for taking this brief survey. We are gathering input from field workers to better understand current experiences with life-on-life missional disciple-making, including preparation before field service and ministry practice during the past 24 months. Your responses will help identify patterns across contexts and inform future conversations and resources.

Instructions

This survey is anonymous. Please answer honestly. Your responses will help mission leaders better understand how to prepare, support, and coach cross-cultural workers.

For this survey, please keep the following definition in mind:

Life-on-life missional disciple-making is the process by which a maturing disciple commits to an extended relationship with a few individuals for the purpose of modeling life and ministry while helping them grow to maturity and equipping them to reproduce themselves in a third spiritual generation.

(Please note that this kind of disciple-making goes beyond meeting for Bible study, prayer, or coaching. It includes shared life, relational time together, and a deepening friendship, while maintaining a focus on spiritual growth, ministry formation, and multiplication into future spiritual generations.)

Missional Disciple-Making Survey

To recieve survey results
This is to track participation. Individual answers will be kept anonymous.
1. Before going to the mission field, did you personally receive life-on-life missional discipling?
2. Does your current ministry role include the expectation that you will personally engage in life-on-life missional discipling of host-country citizens or immigrant/refugee believers?
3. In the last 24 months, how many host-country citizens or immigrant/refugee believers have you personally discipled in a life-on-life manner as defined above?
Please answer honestly. A response of “0” may reflect many realities, including serving among people who are highly resistant to the gospel.
4. Based on your best estimate, what percentage of the host-country citizens or immigrant/refugee believers in the ministry context have received life-on-life missional discipling?
5. Based on your best estimate, what percentage of the host-country citizens or immigrant/refugee believers in your ministry context are actively engaged in life-on-life missional discipling of other believers?
6. How many total years have you served as a cross-cultural field worker?

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