“That every African student
at university will get a chance to be discipled and learn
how to correctly handle the Word of Truth and teach the skills
to others.”
Philip Project Partners help the student
move towards a commitment to faithful Bible handling, obedience
and commitment to teaching (with Africa in mind). Each person
starts at a different stage in this cycle and you must decide
together where the student is and how best to make progress.
Generic Profile of a Philip
Project Partner
- Partners are committed to faithful
Bible teaching and a growing gift for exegesis.
- They are of integrity, which are
modelled in their interactions with the student. For example,
fulfilling their commitment to meet regularly.
- They are patient and at the same
time able to motivate students to achieve project goals
- They are able to offer student
opportunity to teach Bible, or at least to allow the student
to practice teaching them.
Duties of Philip Project Partner
- Committed to meeting 1:1 with the
student at least once a month for chat, prayer, BS and reviewing
lessons learnt at Cornhill Training Course. (You can’t
do all these every time.)
- Offering feedback to student after
his/her teaching. (You can request a preaching evaluation
form from the coordinator).
- Discuss regularly how the student
is fairing in the 4 goals:
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- Becoming a faithful Bible
student – later teacher
- Prayer
- Integrity – matching
words with life.
- Reaching out to potential
future students of PP
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- Sharing with other Philip Project
Partners their own experience in discipling. You can use
the Project monthly newsletter The Anvil
Paul writing to Timothy in the second
letter tells him that everyone in the province of Asia has
abandoned him including a couple of people he thought he
could rely on. As he doesn't want to Timothy to undergo
the same experience, he tells him to be careful about the
kind of person he works with. Choose, he says 'trustworthy
people who are able to pass the (gospel) on to others.'
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