Transcript Church Planting Movement

Church Planting
Movement
A rapid and multiplicative increase of
indigenous churches planting churches within a
given people group or population segment
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Definitions
1. Church:
– A local group of baptized believers in the Lord Jesus Christ
who gather regularly for worship, nurture, and fellowship;
and who depart the gathering endeavoring to obey all the
commands of the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. Church Planting:
– The process of winning individuals and families to Christ
through any and all means that effectively communicate to
the culture, then gathering and baptizing them into the Body
of Christ for the purpose of doing church.
3. Church Planting Movement:
– Local churches within a people group rapidly and regularly
planting multiple new churches within the same people group
as a normal part of being and doing church.
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Definitions
4. Evangelism:
– Taking the Gospel to one’s own people group for the
purpose of redeeming individuals and families in such a way
that churches can be started.
5. Missions:
– Taking the Gospel to a people group that is different from
one’s own for the purpose of redeeming individuals and
families in such a way that churches are planted and a Church
Planting Movement can be started.
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Components of a CPM
• Rapid: New churches are started quickly
• Multiplicative: not just incremental growth — a few
churches a year – but compounding with each church
regularly duplicating itself without professional
missionaries.
• Indigenous churches: Generated from within rather
than from without
– A missionary initiated the entrance of the Gospel without
Western trappings
– The momentum quickly become indigenous w/o missionary
involvement, except for training
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What CPM Is NOT
• More than evangelism that results in churches
• More than a revival of pre-existing churches
• More than evangelistic crusades and witnessing
programs
• More than a final goal – the objective is God is glorified
– As individuals enter a right relationship to God through
Christ they are incorporated into churches where they grow
in grace with other like-minded believers
– Anytime people come to new life in Christ, God is glorified
– Anytime a church is planted – no matter who does it – there
is grounds for celebration
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Why is CPM so Special?
• Is the greatest potential for the largest number
of lost individuals glorifying God by coming
into new life in Christ and communities of faith
• A CPM occurs when the vision of CP shifts
from the missionary to the churches themselves
• Missionaries will always be limited – local CPers
must be added to the pool
• CP is woven into the DNA of every new church
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What has been learned
• Shift ASAP to house church methodology
• Accept the loss of control by focusing on teaching
• Persecution will weed out insincere, but acceptance of
“priesthood” of believer will assure continuance –
hierarchical churches will die
• Missionaries introduce the Gospel, encourage CPM
vision, utilize cell-church methodology and protect
movement from dependency on foreign funds.
• Mobilized and trained lay missionaries is key to CPM
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Ten Universal Elements
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Prayer – Give away the chief power source the
missionary has to the national
Abundant gospel sowing – hundreds or thousands are
hearing the claims of Christ on their lives: mass media,
personal evangelism and personal testimonies of life changes
Intentional church planting – someone implements a
strategy of deliberate CP from the beginning
Scriptural authority – in non-literates Chronological Bible
Storying until Bible can be translated
Local Leadership – Missionary must be disciplined to be the
mentor to CPers rather than do it personally – Gives training
IN ministry in stead of training FOR ministry
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Ten Universal Elements
6. Lay Leadership – typically bi-vocational from
people group (if typically illiterate people, then leaders
will be as well; if fishermen, then leaders will be as
well). Paid clergy may develop, but very few. No
dependency on institute or seminary trained
leadership.
7. Cell or House Churches – small, reproducible cells
of 10-30 members meeting in homes or stores
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Cell Churches are linked to one another via networks,
which is linked into a larger, single church identity – more
easily conformed doctrinally
House Churches look similar, but not organized under a
single authority or hierarchy of authorities, but are
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autonomous units
– less vulnerable
to hostile governments
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Ten Universal Elements
8. Churches Planting Churches – first ones usually
planted by Ms or M-trained CPers – new members
must believe that reproduction is natural and no
external aids are needed
9. Rapid Reproduction – communicates the urgency
and importance of coming to faith and laity are fully
empowered to participate
10. Healthy Churches – Five Purposes: 1) worship 2)
evangelistic outreach 3) education and discipleship
4) ministry 5) fellowship
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