Xee BeNeLux: info
Vision
XEE BNL is a nondenominational association that serves all and any Christian churches.We equip believers to share about Jesus in their networks: family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and acquaintances.
Our vision is that every believer knows how to bring their network of people to the Gospel in an understandable and respectful way - and teach others to do the same.
Global Evangelism Explosion (EE) is one of the largest and fastest growing Christian ministries. It is based on D James Kennedy’s discussion framework, which has been in use with success for 60 years.
Interactivity enables powerful multiplication of the ministry: one person cannot reach all, but one can equip others to reach further people for the Gospel.
Xee Stories : Christina • Christopher • Harrison • Jape • Mark
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Three Pillars of XEE
Prayer Partner Prayers
Exodus 17:8-16 describes the battle of Israel, where Moses stood on a hill hands raised. The Israelites were winning as long as Moses’ hands were lifted up high. The battle lasted long and he became weary, so Aaron and Hur came to assist him. They held Moses’ hands until the victorious end of the battle.Prayer partners are every XEE students and team leaders “Aaron” and “Hur”. Their support is key to the success of the training, because prayer is the best friend of evangelism. They are inseparable.
You pray with prayer partners for minimum 15 minutes per week throughout the XEE semester. During XEE teacher clinic, the prayers carry you two weeks before the first weekend, between the weekends and two weeks after the last clinic meeting.
On the Job Trainings
True learning can only happen when the theory is put into practice. In every XEE course meeting, groups of three will go out (or online over zoom) to meet those friends that do not know Jesus yet. The theory from the XEE training is put in practice in those discussions, supervised by the team leader.The on the job trainings are prearranged meetings with people from your networks. The team of three can also decide to meet some new people. The first and foremost goal is to utilise existing connections - those people that you will anyway encounter in your daily life.
Leading by example - team leaders
When teams of three are formed on a XEE semester, the team leader will be a person who has already passed at least one XEE semester. This experience enables the team leader to coach and encourage his students towards independent evangelising lifestyle. He processes the theory with his students and is responsible for the activities during the on the job trainings.The goal of the XEE semester is that the students who pass the semester will act as a team leader on the next semester. Teaching others helps to keep growing the lifestyle adopted on the first XEE semester. When one teaches others, the information transforms into knowledge and understanding. Acting as a team leader supports genuine discipleship and adds to the multiplication of Jesus’ witnesses.
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XEE training content
Connect Life
Good relationships and connections are the foundation of a fulfilling life and offer great opportunities to share faith. In this first section we focus on developing people skills. This will help to deepen the existing relationships we have and to create new ones.Share Life
The second section is about telling about your faith in inspiring and respectful way. Students write their own testimony, learn how to steer the conversation in gentle and intentional way and to share the Gospel through stories, Bible verses and questions.Multiply Life
A new believer is like a baby that needs care. In the final section we learn how to grow and disciple the new believer. You’ll also learn to transfer your new evangelism lifestyle to others in the church.XEE in local church - How do XEE and the church go together
XEE is great fit for a local church ministry. In Benelux three denominations are involved in the trainings. This his how we help the local churches to own the great command of Jesus: "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” (Mark 16:15)We train church leaders via XEE teacher clinic to start XEE semesters in the local church. The trainings will help to transfer the responsibility of sharing the Gospel from hired staff to everyone in the local church jointly. Every XEE trained person can train others as a team leader. This is the natural way to multiply witnesses.
People of today can best receive the Gospel from people they know best. That’s why it’s crucial that as many Christians as possible share their faith. Our goal is that “everyone would tell, so that everyone would hear”. XEE is first and foremost friendship evangelism, through which we learn how to share the Gospel in our own network of people.
“XEE is born in the church and has always been based in local church. Students are called to the XEE semester form the local church, they’re equipped on the training within the church, church sends them, and they share about their church, bring new believers to the church and disciple them within the church.”
-D James Kennedy”
The Gospel also belongs to children. Hope For Kids Bible club helps you to ensure that the kids in your church understand what the Gospel is truly about. The children get excited about the message of the Bible so much, that they want to share it with their family and friends.
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Questions & Answers
What makes XEE unique?
Practice separates XEE from many evangelism trainings. During the training, the theory gets put into practice by doing the things that are taught during the training.XEE is interesting also because it fits all believers independent on denomination, ministry, calling or status. The training supports the students’ growth in faith in a significant way. XEE can boost the livelihood of the church, especially when the leaders have been trained. The power of example is huge as can be seen from D James Kennedy's story.
Two of the unique traits of XEE are its interactivity and the multiplication of witnesses. We do not bring the world to Jesus by working alone. When we learn how to tell about Jesus in an understandable way and teach the same to others, we use our limited resources wisely.
If one team leader trains two students to witness, the two will each train two more. The work of the team leader has resulted into six equipped witnesses to Jesus. If each and everyone of these XEE trained, further train two more believers - after 10 semesters, we have 2046 new witnesses. And this if each trained is on the XEE semester only twice (once as student and once as team leader). Many people get so excited that they keep on training year after year…
One individual cannot tell about Jesus to over 2000 people in person, let alone make this many disciples. Every equipped witness can instead share with one person in his network - and teach him how to bring the Gospel to their network. This is how the wonder of multiplication happens: when we focus on making rooted disciples, we will bear the eternal fruit into Gods kingdom.
Not all are evangelists?
Of course not. What would be a body (of Christ) full of eyes? (1st Cor 12:13-31)We need to be ready to give answer to all who ask about the foundation of our hope (1st Pet 3:15).
The goal is not to produce evangelists, nor that everyone tells every new acquaintance about Jesus after the XEE training. Instead, we want to equip the common Jesus follower - you - to those situations, where there’s an opportunity to tell about Jesus’ life changing power.
Many believers who are already involved in some kind of ministry experience enormous growth of faith during the XEE training. Going back to fundamentals and meeting different people during XEE surprises even the most experienced Christians with challenges. XEE training offers a safe environment to challenge one’s own ways of work and thinking. Participants get to learn from each other and get built up in faith through shared experiences via the theory and the on the job trainings.
Guaranteed growth to all Christians!
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Our services / Offering
XEE training
The core of the ministry is a 13 week XEE semester, during which a believer / student gets hands on experience on the job, with experienced team leaders starting from day one."Share Your Faith" - afternoon in the local church
One time event that engcourages every believer to test sharing about Jesus. You’re not alone - experienced team leaders go out with you.XEE Clinic
Two intensive weekends with homework between the clinic days give a foundation to host 13 week XEE semesters. XEE teacher clinic is designed for church pastors, elders, leaders and volunteers.Hope For Kids
Interactive and practical Bible and Gospel club Hope For Kids teaches 7 to 12 years old children Bible fundamentals within 12 weeks.XEE BNL Facts
Brought to The Netherlands from Finland - our supporting nationStarted in Eindhoven on 2015, with current reach including
The Hague, Rotterdam, Zwolle, Brussels, Ghent and Namur
7 years in Benelux
3 denominations involved
15 trained people
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History - How did XEE began
Evangelism Explosion – EE was started in 1962 by Dr. D. James (Jim) Kennedy. As a young pastor, Jim watched all his attempts to grow his first congregation go down the tubes. His church attendance dipped. Recalling those difficult times, he said, "Extrapolation made it clear that I had two-and-a-half months of ministry left before I was preaching to only my wife—and she was threatening to go to the Baptist Church down the street!"Jim called this time the lowest point in his ministry. It was then that friend, and pastor, Kennedy Smartt, invited Jim to assist him in, of all things, a series of evangelistic services in Scottdale, Georgia, "I who had decimated one church was being asked to ship my technique across state lines. Have plague will travel!" quipped Jim.
During those 10 days of meetings, Jim simply went out with his friend and watched him engage people spiritually. By the end of the meetings, 54 people made professions of faith in Christ. Jim returned to Fort Lauderdale with the seeds that eventually became Evangelism Explosion. His church began to grow, and grow. In a brief 12-year period, church membership increased from 17 to 2,000.
Realizing that he couldn't do this alone, he made witness-training a bedrock of his ministry, utilizing on-the-job training. In 1967, his Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church was singled out as the most rapidly expanding church in America. In 1972, EE was incorporated with its own staff and Board of Directors. As it spread to other countries, EE materials were translated into other languages. By 1984 more training clinics were held overseas than were held in the US.
In early 1996 EE was planted in all nations of the world. Materials have been translated into more than 70 different languages and clinics have been held in many countries. But there is still much work yet to be done developing national leadership and establishing strong, indigenous ministries in every nation.
The International Office provides an administrative base and raises financial support for the international operations of this ministry. It also oversees the material sales and training clinics for the United States. EE is a multi-denominational, non-profit missions organization whose operations are dependent upon our Lord’s grace and the gifts of His people.
XEE Ministry now: EE for younger generations
EE has developed XEE, a new and effective way to equip newer generations of students in personal, relational evangelism.Global Evangelism Explosion (EE) is one of the largest and fastest growing Christian ministries. EE/XEE ministry is active in 83 countries - having had full semesters in each country on the globe (last county was North Korea in 1995). Hundreds of thousands local churches have had semesters in the last 60 years. In 2019 over 60 000 local churches hosted a semester. XEE materials are available on 22 languages Other EE materials are available on all major languages.
EE materials were modernised for generations X and Y (hence the name XEE) in 2000’s. The core of the ministry remains the same, but the stories, Bible verses and examples were upgraded to better suit the modern post Christian cultural context.
Finland started the ministry in 1997 and by now they’ve helped the ministry to start in the Netherlands, Sweden, Latvia, Austria, Switzerland, England, Ireland, Germany, Israel, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Cuba. In the Netherlands XEE ministry landed in 2015.
Rather than aiming for big numbers, our core is to reach one person in our networks. We focus on meeting the needs of our family member / friend / relative / neighbour / colleague / acquaintance properly by being with them. We guide and coach them to become a disciple of Jesus.
Once our life style changes through the XEE training, it enables us to disciple more people in our networks.
