Turkey

Disciplemaking Principle: Develop Indigenous Praise and Worship

Encouraging local followers to create their own forms of praise and worship is a really important element of how disciples in movements do church together, so that church looks as familiar and normal as it can in that cultural setting. The church works thoughtfully and prayerfully to indigenize praising Jesus into the forms that make sense today so that the church forms don’t look like Western churches and therefore erode people’s identity in their ethnicity or their nationality. They can fully be Christians within their national context.

Prayer Point:

Pray that worship and praise in movements would be alive and fit well for local people, coming naturally from local believers as they become disciples. Pray that Turks, Kurds, and all the unreached people groups would find meaningful ways to express their devotion to Jesus in culturally familiar forms.

Focus City: Ankara