The effectiveness of discipleship methods used by the Life Challenges Africa for discipling of MBBS: its implication to mission

Abstract

Life Challenge Africa is a resource and development centre that promotes Muslim discipleship programs for MBBs. It has been in operation for the last thirty one years. This research sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the methods which Life Challenge Africa uses in its discipleship programs of MBBs and its implications to mission work. The researcher interviewed nine leaders and nine disciples with Muslim background context who were his main source of information for this work. The research designed from research question which guided him in his research for this study. The scales of 1-5 where one represents the most effective method and five represents the least ineffective method were used to determine the effectiveness of the methods. It was found out from the result that individual discipleship, bible study and listening to bible stories were methods which were highly valued and this showed that they were highly favored by both the MBBs and the disciplers in L.C.A. But still there were challenges which came out clearly from the respondents. The challenges include limited numbers Of disciples, lack of training materials and poor attendances were pointed out. Therefore, the research showed that L.C.A. need to give more attention on meeting the need of more disciples, finances to buy more materials and encourage the disciples to improve on their class attendance. It should also maintain the spirit of disciplining of MBBs, if we need the MBBs to be established in the Christian truth and also become disciplers of the same.