DMM: DBS-The Efficacy of God's Word

The Efficacy of God’s Word

Puisi. In the Indonesian language this word is translated

Poetry.

Ibu Amina sat on our backporch for a respite, or so I assumed. She works for two days a week to help with the daily needs of running a household here.

I saw that she was fighting back tears. After I called out to her I saw that indeed there was something big brewing.  

Through stifled cries, she proceeded to tell me, outside the earshot of our temporary American guests, that she was struck by the way the man was trying to read.

This man and his wife love the Lord, as they work in Hong Kong. This particular morning of their visit he was reading his Bible on a tablet. The unusual part came when he read out loud. Five years have passed since he suffered a stroke. The effects could still be observed.

So, here he was struggling to read out loud the Word of God in English, so that he could focus his stroke-scarred mind.  Here was Amina, having heard him read, with no knowledge of what book he held. And yet, she described what she had just heard spoken as “poetry”. 

Amina is a SaSumBi Muslim with whom I go through the DBS stories. She then takes each story and facilitates a Discovery Bible Study process using 8 simple questions:

1. What are you thankful for?

2. What is a present challenge?

3. Retell last story, how you and your household obeyed?

4. Read out loud 2x's, the next story from the Word, take turns rephrase text in own Words

5. What does this teach us about God? 

6. What does this teach us about man?

7. What does this impress on you to obey? ("I will...")

8. Who else in your family/friends needs to hear this story? When?

I invited our two American friends to join us for the next story. We walked through the whole process, with me coaching Amina to facilitate the simple 8 step process of Discovery Bible Study questions.

How could one not be shaken at the incredible reminders of the utter potency of the Word of God, in concert with the power of the Holy Spirit to convict men of sin, righteousness, and judgment.

This process of DMM…really is that simple.