REDUX

What is Redux?

Redux gives each organization, family, or individual the ability to fully customize paths for moving a seeker along the journey towards becoming a believer. It’s a digital platform, an app, that helps you manage the process of making disciples. This cloud-based platform helps churches, families, and individuals build intentional relationships with unbelievers, encouraging them to move from seekers to believers. Redux utilizes technology from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software and leverages it toward the goal of sharing the gospel.

Since it’s a cloud-based software program, it can be accessed anywhere through a computer or mobile device via the responsive Redux platform. Users create profiles for their non-believing friends. On each friend’s profile, users can note details from previous conversations, schedule tasks (like coffee dates or reminders to pray for that person), save important dates and contact info, and more. It’s an easy way to track and manage the details that matter in each of these relationships.

Not only that, Redux users can create customized paths for sharing the gospel and track where each friend is along the journey. Whether you’ve just met someone, asked a few questions about their faith, or had an opportunity to share your own, you can track all of these steps and more through the Redux app. Churches, families, and individual users can create paths.

Why Do We Need Another Tool for Discipleship?

With access to multiple forms of social media, mobile messaging, online gaming, and many other platforms, most of us are building vast networks of friends. We’re connecting to increasing numbers of people throughout the day. Staying up-to-date on the details of our friends’ lives can be challenging.

When those relationships are with unbelieving friends, it’s even more critical that we find ways to steward our connections well. Checking in regularly, scheduling time together, and sharing prayer requests are purposeful activities that we don’t want to neglect. But the idea of managing such an extensive network of relationships and keeping track of so many people is overwhelming.

At GNPI, we’ve been developing resources for strategic evangelism in nearly every region of the world for over 40 years. Our mission is to share the gospel with everyone, everywhere; our most recent project has the potential to equip Christians in any part of the world, including America, to thoughtfully manage their connections with unbelievers and steer them toward evangelism. That’s why we’re developing a tool called Redux.

How Can Redux Help Me Become More Effective?

All Christians know that we’ve been called to share the good news with the world. But often, we’re not sure where to start. By breaking evangelism down into a manageable, step-by-step process, Redux simplifies what can be intimidating for many Christians. It gives users a clear path for communicating and helping their friends. More than checking items off a list, it’s about intentionality. Redux allows users to see where their relationships have stalled out and where they may need to invest more time and prayer.

When entire churches use Redux, leaders get a clear, data-driven picture of how their members are reaching out and engaging with those around them. This bird's-eye view allows pastors and other leaders to train their congregations more effectively, knowing where they’re seeing progress and where people might need more help. 

Redux is also highly customizable, which means that individuals or churches can build their own processes for cultivating relationships with people who do not yet believe, and even people that do. You can tailor these steps to fit different groups of people you’re reaching out to or different types of relationships. Churches can also use Redux to move those who are already believers along other discipleship tracks, like church membership or leadership training. However you use it, Redux can help you steward relationships and intentionally move people toward kingdom goals.

What's Next for Redux?

Redux already integrates seamlessly with many of the apps that are already on your mobile devices, such as maps, calendars, messaging, email, and contacts. We’re also working toward building partnerships with more third-party systems in the future. If you’re already using church management software, such as Church Community Builder or Rock RMS, you’ll eventually be able to move contacts from Redux directly into those platforms. When the friends you’ve been praying for eventually join your church, they’re not entering the system as blank slates. Leaders will be able to see connections within the congregation and how they got there.

We’re also hoping to develop more resources for assessing, assisting, and encouraging our users as they share the gospel. That will include things like discipleship training and tools for helping organizations analyze their success and learn how to adjust their approach. 

We use apps and mobile devices every day to help us simplify and complete tasks. Why aren't we using an app to help us do the most important job God gave us? Redux is designed to do just that. For individuals and groups of all sizes, it’s the app that helps the church be the church.There’s so much potential, both in the U.S. and in many of the nations where we work, for this project to equip everyday believers to become more effective in sharing the gospel. Contact Mike Schrage at mschrage@gnpi.org to learn more about these efforts.

OCTOBER 18, 2019 UPDATE: Redux is in beta testing. Release is planned for March 2020.