Bill Brady   Updated 11/29/2018

Everyone is Meant to Facilitate Encounters!

• Facilitation is as fundamental and basic as breathing!
• And learning to walk!

Facilitation is spiritual walking! 

• Every newborn begins to explore the world around them.
• Learning to explore heavenly realms is self-facilitation.
• Facilitation is learning to walk.
• You facilitate yourself into encounters with God.
• And you quickly begin sharing your discoveries with others.
• This is testimony.
• It is also facilitation.
• We are all meant to bring others into encounters with the living God!

Here is a partial list of beginner’s encounters:

• The River
• Your Garden
• The 4 Chambers of the Heart
• The Tree of Life

Everyone is already a facilitator.

• If you are a mother or a father, then you are a facilitator.
• If you were an older brother or sister, then you are a facilitator.
• If you have a job, then you are a facilitator.
• Of customers
• Or of fellow employees that you have shown how to do the job that you do.
• A facilitator is simply someone who shows someone else how to do something.

Every believer is meant to be a facilitator of encounters.

• There are basic experiences with God that every believer has.
• We call experiences with God an encounter.
• You had an encounter when you were born again.
• You have had many encounters since then.

You facilitate someone into an encounter when you show them how to have an experience with God.

• There are certain basic experiences with God that every believer is meant to have.
• Every believer can show someone else how to have those experiences.
• Every believer can lead someone else into these experiences.
• Every believer can facilitate encounters.

 In the past we have thought of these kinds of skills as pastoral.

• They were skills that a pastor has and a congregation receives from the pastor.
• This is old wineskin thinking.
• We didn’t use the word “facilitate”.
• We used the word “ministry”.
• These skills were part of the “ministry” of pastors.

In this day all believers are kings and priests.

• We can all “facilitate”.
• We can all facilitate certain basic “encounters” / experiences.

I picture us like heavenly realms beginner’s encounter tour guides.

• Each of us will become comfortable with facilitating a beginner’s level encounter.
• Each will also learn to take beginners on a standard list of beginner’s encounters.

In this day of harvest every believer is meant to be able to facilitate encounters.

• It is not a skill just for the few.
• It is a skill for all.
• Get rid of anything that remains in your thinking from the old wineskin.
• Let go any thinking about “ministry”.
• And begin thinking about “facilitation”.
• Let go of ministry as being something that the few do.
• Chose to facilitate as something that everyone does.

Every believer is meant to be able to facilitate a standard list of encounters.

• Everyone new to group encounters will experience these beginning encounters.
• Every believer can lead other believers into each of these beginning encounters.