Listen to Christ is enough by Hillsong
What is G12?
G12 is about a man.
G12 is based on Jesus discipling 12. We believe His life and ministry is the template for a generation of disciple today. He spend his entire 3 and a half years forming his disciples. When He left and ascend to heaven, He left this 12 disciple with the mandate to go and make disciples and change the world. He is our example.
G12 is a message.
Jesus spoke powerful words when He chose his twelve. He said, “ Come and follow me and I will make you a fishers of men” Jesus impart the vision of world conquest and He knew the Father’s plan for His life and He had a divine compulsion, which we call the Great Commission “Go and make disiciples of all nation”, to accomplish it.
G12 is a model.
G12 has a local expression at MCI Church in Bogota ,Columbia along with several other churches in all parts of the world. This dynamic G12 life and ministry has actively living the words of Jesus “let your will be done here on earth as it is in heaven” The Senior pastor equips their 12 with practical tools on how to do it and draws our their God-given potentials and spirit of conquest to be used for the Kingdom.
G12 is a movement.
We have developed a leadership strategy called Win, Consolidate, Disciple and Send. And a training tools called PEPSOL. This strategy develops the new believer spiritually as well as in the areas of soul winning, consolidating new believers, discipleship and to be send to multiply. They learn how to gather the harvest, preserve the harvest, disciple the harvest and send the harvest. We know who we are in Christ. Aware, when we know who we are in Christ, we are able to stop focusing on ourselves and become aware of the needs of those around us. United, once we become aware of the need, we realize we cannot do it alone.
it is going to take all of us, we then become united. Then, the Church becomes all she was ever meant to be, a powerful force, ” and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”. It becomes a movement.
G12 a materials or tool for multiplication
We have created materials and books for pastors and PEPSOL training materials written by Pastor Cesar Castillanos for leaders to help make this vision become a reality. We have taken the principles of the life of Jesus with His 12 disciples and created relevant topics, applicable tools and memorable points to help the disciples make the message of Jesus come to life in their own walk with the Lord.
What G12 Does…
G12 sounds a wake up call
G12 is a wake up call for all pastors and leaders, exposing the battleground we didn’t even realize was there. We, as the Church, cannot passively sit by and watch this generation be saturated with a culture that will kill them.
Our church today is more focus on program and not on people. We see gifted people but not fruitful people in the Kingdom of God. Christians loves church event and activities but not training process. Church attendance is the only achievement and the only spiritual exercise that we have. Personal devotional time is absent among many believers today. Soul winning and discipleship is totally unpopular among the church leaders. Ministry was perceived as church program maintenance. Where are the people ministry? This church bad culture destroy the life and the effectiveness of the church.
Our battles are on the grounds of apathy and negative affects of poverty. The world is becoming very small, very quickly. Some Muslim countries are teaching their children, at the age of three, how to kill Christians and Jews.As you can see, the battles our children face right now are going to change rapidly. The responsibility of preparing this generation for what lies ahead rests on us, all of us.
As a culture, we have facilitated early development in every area other than spiritual. Our kids have accelerated in their growth, physically, educationally, emotionally, developmentally but have lagged sadly behind spiritually. We must wake up and help the next generation become strong, fervent and determined Christians, full of the Spirit of the Lord and ready to assume an offensive position instead of our current spiritual defensive stance.
G12 provokes action
Barna says, We retain, 10% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, 60% of what we do.
Why does our ministry consist mostly of telling and hearing? It is too critical at this time in history to allow the few moments we have with the believers every week to be a 10% retention factor, or even 30%.
G12 is a ‘get in the action’ model of ministry that compels our lives to live boldly for the cause
of Christ NOW. Just like Jesus, we expect our life is involve in taking the nations for Jesus by winning and disciping people and not to be to be hidden in the house or found inside the church building alone. We want every believers to walk in the revelation of his word and live supernaturally.
This vision is amazing! It makes so much sense. It’s like, why didn’t I think of this. It’s so simple and yet I had completely missed it. — a pastor
Not only do we expect them to learn and grasp spiritual truths BUT we fully expect them and give them the opportunity to walk them out in their daily lives. G12 equals action. Faith is great, but faith without works is dead. Our people need the opportunity to win souls and make disciples, learn more about them, step out in faith-filled prayer so that God can respond to this faith in action. They will know that they have experienced God for themselves and no matter what contradicting or confusing messages they face, they can’t deny it.