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By Bob Roberts Jr.
The Multiplying Church is a primer for pastors and lay leaders fascinated about, or desirous to know about, the church multiplication groundswell in North the USA. It indicates how multiplying church buildings can be a usual, normal functionality of each church to arrive the 70 percentage of usa citizens who've no significant church courting. Detailing the tales and guiding ideas of this dramatic development, this advisor deals perception on: * Why church buildings are multiplying within the East yet no longer within the West * Keys to church multiplication * The lacking link--pregnant mom church buildings * Antioch vs. Jerusalem: Which acquired it correct? * what sort of church buildings may still we commence? * what's the finish video game of church planting? * How enormous does a church need to be to begin multiplying church buildings? * Church planting pursuits or Jesus activities? Bob Roberts is helping us go back to an early-church version of multiplication the place a unmarried church despatched laypeople out to plant different groups of believers.
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Watson went on to say, “CPMs are our hope and prayer. Our part of that is making disciples, equipping leaders, and starting churches with the right DNA that is based on obedience. ” Watson likes the term “gospel planting” because we plant the gospel and train obedience and the result is churches. The focus is not on the act of church planting itself. The Jesus movement is an intense personal relationship with Jesus. Upon close inspection, most Jesus movements don’t come from revival meetings, tract distribution, preaching crusades, mass evangelism campaigns, and “evangelistic” strategies.
All of this was great, but I felt God telling me that it wasn’t enough. If God was going to build another megachurch in the South, it had to be about more than one church. I felt God telling me that West Ridge was put on this earth not just to support church plants but to help start them. 53 THE MULT IPLY ING CHURCH In 2003 we hired our first Church Plant (CP) intern. It was an amazing experience for our church. It really helped us get the focus outside of not only the walls of our church but also the confines of our community.
Five years ago, if you were to visit China and meet one of many pastors with tens of thousands in his church (and some millions of millions in their church network), you might ask him, “How did you start this church planting network? ” Surprise — he wouldn’t know what you were talking about. It wasn’t as if a Chinese person accepted Christ, followed God’s call into the ministry, and then felt led to start a church planting movement. Instead, it happened this way: Individuals found Jesus, he revolutionized their lives, and as a result Jesus spread from their lives to the lives of their family and friends.