Transcript 08 part 2 Church Planting Movement
Church Planting Movement
A rapid and multiplicative increase of indigenous churches planting churches within a given people group or population segment
Church Planting Movements – Garrison and IMB 1
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Prayer: Prayer is the starting point for all ministry – know the mind of god and join Him in His work.
Scripture: The prime authority and source of teaching Households/“families” : Focus on households/families, not on individuals Disciples: Make disciples, not converts. Teach Obedience: Every encounter is a challenge to obey the Word at some point, no doctrine.
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Access Ministries: Access Ministries open the door for Church Planting and lead to community transformation Plan/ Be Intentional: Plan your work and work your plan – Be intentional in Access Ministry, Prayer, Scripture, Evangelism and Church planting. Man of Peace/Discovery Bible Study: Start with the Man of Peace or an existing relationship that will permit a Discovery Bible Study or witness Community of Believers (church): Form new believers into minimum Biblical practice groups that become Communities of Believers (churches) who transform communities.
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Reaching Out (missions): Reaching out to “all” segments of society becomes a part of the group DNA as a result of obedience to the Great Commission (missions) Reproducing: Reproducing disciples, leaders, groups and churches becomes a part of the group DNA. Inside Leaders: Keep all thing reproducible by Inside Leaders.
Authority and Holy Spirit: Authority of Scripture and the Holy Spirit are all that is needed to start.
Persecution: Persecution is a part of being a Christian Church Planting Movements – Garrison and IMB 4
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ducation/Training/Equipping/Mentoring: Discipleship and Leadership Education and Training are “on the job,” continuous and primarily through mentoring. This builds communities that hold each other accountable for obedience to the Word of God.
Outside Leaders: Outside leaders Model, Equip, Watch and Leave.
Self-Supporting: Self-supporting local leaders start and sustain all work – including groups, fellowships, and churches.
Redeem Local Culture (Embrace the Local Culture): Do not import external culture, but redeem local culture by embracing all you biblically can in a culture and transforming the rest. Church Planting Movements – Garrison and IMB 5
Ten Common Factors
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Worship in the heart language – Trade languages limit potential in prayer, songs, illustrations and applications Evangelism has communal implications – rely on family webs and social connections
Rapid incorporation of new converts into the life and
ministry of the church – baptism is closely tied to conversion and new believers are expected to become witnesses and often encouraged to join another new group Passion and fearlessness – which attests to the importance of salvation and necessity of conversion – a spirit of timidity or fear quenches CPM A price to pay to become a Christian – CPMs planted where Christ is not popular or socially advantageous – insincere and folks with personal agenda don’t make it.
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Perceived leadership crisis or spiritual vacuum in society
– Societal disintegration from war, disaster or displacement is good environment for CPM – eternity is very close.
On-the-job Training for Church Leadership – Church based training is essential – cannot leave the church for training (short-term training modules in Bible, doctrine and Leadership) Leadership Authority is Decentralized – hierarchy of authority and bureaucratic decision-making kill CPM Outsiders Keep a Low Profile – Must minimize dependency, foreignness, and intimidation-factor to encourage indignity (draw new believers into leadership through participative Bible Studies and mentoring house-church pastors privately) Missionaries Suffer – Oddly the history of this movement shows calamity often falls on the initiator Church Planting Movements – Garrison and IMB 7
Ten Practical Handles
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• • Pursue a CPM orientation from the beginning – “end vision” is being lived out from start modeling evangelism, discipleship and multiplication training within cell-group Develop and Implement Comprehensive Strategies – 4 areas: (1) Prayer, (2) God’s Word, (3) Evangelism (4) Church planting Matrix of ministries for human needs ministries, communication strategies, mobilization, etc. Evaluate Everything to Achieve the End-Vision – What do you say “no” to is key – does it help or hinder the CPM Employ Precision Harvesting – rather than random sowing by using “response filtering” to find individuals already inclined, then focus discipleship and CP with them Prepare New Believers for Persecution – A call to Christ is a call to a Cross! Harassment, persecution should not be a surprise – it is part of the evangelism process – taught to expect hardships (Mark 8:34) Church Planting Movements – Garrison and IMB 8
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Gather Them, then Win Them – start evangelistic worship and Bible study groups – they are not won outside such a group Try a POUCH methodology:
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articipative Bible study and worship
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npaid and un-hierarchical leadership
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• • • • • • • Develop Multiple Leaders within each Cell Church – this avoids the trap of inadequate leadership, but authority and ministry must be tied together.
Use on-the-job Training – teaching while doing One month training- two months pastoral work Eight sessions of training for two weeks at a time over two years (once a quarter) Higher education may be necessary eventually, but will quench CPM in early stages
Model, Assist, Watch & Leave (MAWL)
Problem for missionary is he enjoys pastoring and is often doubtful of new leader’s capabilities Can be minimized if sharing responsibilities from beginning with those he is leading.
A pattern of modeling new church planting and worship, then assisting the church members to do the same in their homes (2 Tim 2:2) Only when the missionary steps away is the cycle of MAWL completed Church Planting Movements – Garrison and IMB 10
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Obstacles to CPMs
Imposing extra-biblical requirements for being a church – land, bldg, seminary-trained salaried leader Loss of a valued cultural identity – can’t be foreign Overcoming bad examples of Christianity – if they know of older churches who don’t reproduce or have had scandals.
• • Non-reproducible church models – electronics, sound systems, projection techniques, etc.
Subsidies creating dependency – once started it will be required – stifles initiatives, builds false expectations
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Outside funds might be useful in printing literature, radio programming and broadcast, Jesus film, translation, CD/DVD/cassette production Financing a few subsidized pastors will limit growth unless all are paid as well. Church Planting Movements – Garrison and IMB 11
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• • Extra-biblical leadership requirements (Christ’s selection of the 12 in Matt 4:18-22 and Paul’s criteria in 1 Tim 3) Note: no technical training required Linear, sequential thought, steps and practice – it isn’t one step then another, its all together – discipling unsaved into conversion, then immediately involved Planting “frog” rather than “lizard” churches: Frog churches see themselves as end in themselves, sitting fat and complacent on a hill or lily pad (main street) expecting the lost to come to them Lizard church are always pursuing the lost, adaptable and ready for action, often a hostile environment. Go to homes with evangelistic Bible studies, willing to change colors, expend energy or lose their tails if necessary Prescriptive strategies – There is no prefabricated method that works – each is creative. It is not a know-nothing approach, but a multiple arsenal approach.
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Paradoxes of CPM
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Go slow to go fast Focus on few to win many Share only where people are ready to hear New insider is more effective than highly trained, mature outsider Start with creation, not Christ Let the lost lead the Bible studies Disciple to conversion
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Prepare to spend a long time, but anticipate miracle accelerations It’s about discovering, not teaching The best time for a church to plant a new church is when it is new Do personal evangelism, so that masses will hear Focus on ordinary people, not professional Christians Expect the hardest places to yield the greatest fruit Small for-profit projects often yield much higher long term access and goodwill than charity or free services. Church Planting Movements – Garrison and IMB 14