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When people get back from door knocking and conversation stall they arrive back in dribs and drabs. It's great to strike when the irons hot and do feedback immediatly. We start the feedback when the first people arrive.
The organiser people always want to do it in small groups etc, but I always like to do it all in one big group so that I can have input into coaching how to do the conversations better.
For door knocking we've sent the team members out in pairs - an inexperienced person with
an experienced person. I always ask the inexperienced person to give
the feedback. There are often great stories of what they learned from
watching the experienced person.
I think it's important to not skimp on this feedback time or to let
an inexperienced person run it. It's one of the best training times of
the mission, picking up on the really good things, emphasising and
encouraging, helping people to have better conversations.
This is really the most signficant thing about mission - that people
learn through the conversations that they have on mission - and through
hearing the others conversations - to actually have conversations
themselves in their normal everyday lives about Jesus.
One woman said to me today that she realised by doing the door
knocking that all her evangelism till now had been inviting people to
church, rather than actually articulating the gospel herself. Another
member told me that she after the conversation stall has resolved that
she needs to know her bible better.
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