Continue with Family Preparation For Field Service

Family sessions might focus on a series of steps, such as the following: (1) Prepare a well-rehearsed presentation including a scripture to read from the Bible if opportunity permits. (2) Make sure that each one has, if possible, his own field service bag, a Bible, a notebook, a pen or pencil, tracts and other literature in good condition. The service bag does not have to be expensive bit it should be neat. (3) Discuss where and how to do informal witnessing. Follow up each stage of this instruction with periods during which you work together in the field service. offer helpful suggestions, but do not counsel on too many points.

A major part of the work that Jesus Christ assigned to his followers is disciple making. (Matthew 28:19, 20) Making disciples involves more than preaching. It requires teaching. how can your family study help you to be effective in doing this?

As a family, discuss whom it would be good to make return visits on. Some of them may have accepted literature; some may simply have listened. They may have been met int he house-to-house work or in informal witnessing at the market or at school. Let God's Word guide you. (Psalm 25:9; Ezekiel 9:4) Decide whom each one of you wants to call on that week. What will be talked about? Family discussion can help each member to prepare. Make note of specific scriptures to share with interested ones as well as appropriate points from the brochure What Does God Require Of Us? Or the book Knowledge That Leads To Everlasting Life. Do not try to cover too much on one call. Leave the householder with a question that will be answered on the next visit. Whey not make it part of the weekly routine to plan which return visits each one is going to make, when he will make them and what he hopes to accomplish. Doing this can help to make field ministry of the entire family more fruitful.

Next time: Go On Teaching Them Jehovah's Way