The Lord used the 4 day intensive training to shift my heart to be more like His.

Even after years of studying the Word of God, this time in the Word challenged my understanding of God’s desire for His people and His plan to mobilize them to their neighbors and the nations.

This training also gave me a clear and biblical pathway to follow Jesus and fish for men – highlighting patterns set by Jesus, His disciples, Paul, and Paul’s many co-laborers.

I have attended several of these trainings over the years and I give it a 5 out of 5 star rating. I highly recommend it.

I worked as a pastor for many years wondering if there was a way to do ministry closer to the patterns of Jesus I saw as I read the New Testament. It was at a Four Fields Intensive in 2016 that I was first exposed to the missional strategy of Jesus and the early church in a clear way.

I also saw simple tools and ways to seek to live these principles out in my day life and to help others do the same.

Since that time, it has been amazing to the see the fruits of generations of disciples and church the Lord has given as we have walked this path. The Four Fields Intensive has a 5 star rating in my book!

This training was crucial to my understanding of the core missionary task.

Biblically understanding how Jesus and Paul lived out a life centered on God entering into new places, sharing the good news, discipling others, gathering as church and identifying and equipping leaders was paramount to my growth and reaching others for Jesus.

This training was biblically sound and simple enough to understand and reproducible enough to equip others.

The in-depth scripture study paired along simple and reproducible tools was huge for both my understanding and application personally and corporately.

I did not realize how unclear my discipleship training pathway was. And I could not see how that was restricting the disciples I made from making disciples.

When I was a part of a 4 Fields Intensive, my eyes were opened to see Jesus as a ministry model. The Four Fields pathway leaped off the pages of the Bible (was that always there??) and I left with a major game-changing shift in my perspective.

The pathway became clear.

And after that, the disciples I trained began to walk out the same life-changing journey and learn to make and multiply disciples, leaders, and churches the way Jesus did it.

After 4 days of in-depth scripture study, best practices, and pathways towards multiplicational disciple making and church planting, my single biggest barrier, how to do it and teach others to do the same was finally broken.

5 years of trying to make disciples without all of the extras that money and complex church structures affords created the environment of failure that readied my heart to see and understand the core activities of Acts, and the 4 Fields Intensive was the catalyst.

Going through a four fields intensive helped open my eyes to the biblical basis of Jesus’ mandate to make disciples. I have believed for many years that the words of scripture are inspired by God and truthful… but the main question the four Fields intensive answered was not only “what is the word of God?” but “what are the ways of God?”

It says in 1 John 2:6 – “whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.” I have proclaimed to abide in Him for many years, but through the four fields intensive trainings, it helped me to understand how to actually walk in the same way that Jesus and His disciples walked. We are pursuing Jesus and his mission, we are not pursuing ourselves and our own mission.

If we are pursuing Jesus’s mission, doesn’t it make sense that we pursue his mission the same way that He did? That his disciples did? That the first Church did?