STRATEGIC EVANGELISM THROUGH CHURCH MULTIPLICATION Part One

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STRATEGIC EVANGELISM THROUGH CHURCH
MULTIPLICATIONPart One

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• CULTIVATING A
• LISTENING HEART

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Proverbs 99
Give Instruction to the wise, and they will be
wiser still teach the righteous and they will
gain in learning.
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James 119
You must understand this, my beloved let
everyone be quick to listen.
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Heart Preparation

• We must believe God wants to speak.
• (John 103-4)

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John 103-4
the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own
sheep by name and leads them outand the sheep
follow him because they know His voice.
-- Jesus
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LISTENING TO GOD

• Why is it that when we talk to God were said to
  be praying, but when God talks to us were
  schizophrenic.
• Lilly Tomlin

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How God Teaches Us Some Basic Principles
1. We must believe God wants to talk. 2. We must
be committed to listening.
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1 Samuel 310
Now the Lord came and stood there, calling as
before, Samuel! Samuel! And Samuel said,
Speak, for your servant is listening.
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How God Teaches Us Some Basic Principles
1. We must believe God wants to talk. 2. We must
be committed to listening. 3. We learn best by
asking questions.
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Luke 246
After three days they found him in the temple,
sitting among the teachers, listening to them and
asking them questions.
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How God Teaches Us Some Basic Principles
1. We must believe God wants to talk. 2. We must
be committed to listening. 3. We learn best by
asking questions. 4. We must capture the learning
by writing it down.
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Principle To Remember
What God teaches us is infinitely more
important than what any one person teaches us.
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PRAYER PAUSE

• He said, Go out and stand on the mountain
  before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass
  by. Now there was a great wind, so strong that
  it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in
  pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in
  the wind and after the wind an earthquake, but
  the Lord was not in the earthquake and after the
  earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the
  fire and after the fire the sound of sheer
  silence (I Kings 1911-12).

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PRAYER PAUSE

• Be Still and know that I am God!... (Ps.4610a).

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PRAYER PAUSE

• Quiet yourself before the Lord.
• Attempt to get yourself to a point of sheer
  silence.
• Clear your mind of all distractions
• Listen for Gods voice in the silence.
• What needs to be off loaded to be open to Gods
  leading?
• What is God saying to you?
• What are you sensing? Hearing?

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• BIBICAL FRAMEWORK MISSIONAL MULTIPLICATION

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• We are foremost a missionary people.

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The Old Testament

• Moses
• The cries of the people of Israel have reached
  me, and I have seen how the Egyptians have
  oppressed them with heavy tasks.  Now go, for I
  am sending you to Pharaoh. You will lead my
  people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.
• Exodus 39 - 10 (NLT)

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The Old Testament

• His Prophets
• I will perform a sign among them. And I will
  send those who survive to be messengers to the
  nationsto Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians
  (who are famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece,
  and to all the lands beyond the sea that have not
  heard of my fame or seen my glory. There they
  will declare my glory to the nations. 
• Isaiah 6619 (NLT)

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The New Testament

• The missional ministry of Jesus
• And this is the way to have eternal lifeto know
  you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one
  you sent to earth (John 173).
• Now they know that everything I have is a gift
  from you, for I have passed on to them the words
  you gave me and they accepted them and know that
  I came from you, and they believe you sent me
  (Jn.177-8).

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The New Testament

• The missional ministry of the Disciples
• Im not asking you to take them out of the
  world, but to keep them safe from the evil one
  (John 1715).
• As you sent me into the world, I am sending them
  into the world (John 1718).

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The New Testament

• The missional ministry of the twenty-first
  century
• I am praying not only for these disciples but
  also for all who will ever believe in me because
  of their testimony
• (John 1720).

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• Missional is participatory
• Missional is incarnational
• Missional is transformational
• Missional is Great Commission living (Go and
  make) with a Great Commandment heart (Love your
  neighbor)

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MULTIPLICATION VALUE

• Multiplication Key Old Testament Value
• Multiplication Key New Testament Value
• Gods design We multiply according to our own
  kind.
• Application to the church
• The nature of God in multiplication
• Antioch congregations

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• Multiplication means it does not end with one
  believer, one leader or one church.

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• ELEMENTS OF A
• MULTIPLICATION MOVEMENT

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Elements of a Movement

• Missional leadership
• Missional (fit) churches
• Agenda harmony
• Systematic approach

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Missional Leadership

• Growing, healthy leaders will build growing,
  healthy churches growing, healthy churches will
  multiply resulting in a greater effectiveness in
  making Christ known.

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Characteristics of Missional Leaders

• Calling
• Character
• Competency
• Commitment
• Courage

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Missional (fit) Churches

• Externally focused
• Engages their culture
• Equips their people as missionaries to their
  culture

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A Missional Model
GO DO Good Samaritan Luke 1037
LEARN BE Yoke Matthew 1129
COME SEE Philip Nathaniel John 146
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• Healthy Church Missional (Fit) Church
• Members as ministers Members as missionaries
• Discipleship Missional living
• Development Programs People Empowerment
• Team Leadership Personal mission
• Reaching Community Transforming Community
• Training Releasing
• Group multiplication Church multiplication
• Diversity Mosaic
• Ecclesiocentric Theocentric
• Great Commandment Missio Dei

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Agenda Harmony

• Agenda harmony is when the lay, pastoral, synod
  and denominational leaders work together for a
  common objective, with a common purpose, in a
  common spirit.

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Systematic Approach

• Judicatory (Synod) that creates a healthy
  multiplying environment
• Healthy multiplying churches
• Healthy, growing, multiplying new churches

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S.T.E.P.S. Multiplication

• S- seeking prayer
• T- targeting potential locations
• E- evaluating the present health of your church
• P- preparing today for tomorrow
• S- spirit directed

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STRATEGIC EVANGELISM THROUGH CHURCH
MULTIPLICATIONPart Two

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The Necessity of Starting New Churches

• Church attendance is not keeping pace with
  population growth
• New churches are more effective in evangelism
• New things attract new people
• New churches better engage a new culture
• Church planting is biblical
• New Churches provide more options for people

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The Necessity

• 7. New churches bridge the gaps between church
  and culture.
• The generational gap
• The racial/ethnic gap
• The worldview gap

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Modern Worldview

• Truth is relative
• The person is the center of the universe

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Post Modern Worldview

• Truth is constructed
• Truth can ebb and flow

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The Necessity of Existing Churches to Start
Churches

• It is the most effective method of planting.
• It is a natural outflow of evangelism
• It is a natural outflow of being a healthy (fit)
  church
• There are more people to reach than will come to
  the existing church

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The Necessity to Start

• 5. The resources for new churches are readily
  available.
• 6. It empowers a church to be more missional
• 7. Diversity of ministry can happen without
  losing sight of the existing churchs call.
• 8. It revitalizes an existing church

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HURDLES MYTHS

• The hurdle of fear
• The hurdle of faith
• The hurdle of finances
• The hurdle of friendships
• The hurdle of leadership

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HURDLES MYTHS

• The hurdle of knowledge
• The hurdle of selfishness
• The hurdle of priority
• The hurdle of ownership
• The hurdle of dead center

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HURRDLES MYTHS

• The myth of attendance
• The myth of age
• The myth of acquisition
• The myth of adequacy

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STRATEGIC EVANGELISM THROUGH CHURCH
MULTIPLICATIONPart Three

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FIVE METHODS

• Public Affirmation
• People connect with what they hear about
• Passion dictates priority

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FIVE METHODS

• B. Prayer
• Missional praying is projected outward
• Missional praying is asking God to work
  outside the walls of our church
• Missional praying directed, outward focused,
  mobilizing prayer

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Two Criteria Missional Praying

• The church must have an evangelistic passion
• The church must have a willingness to pray

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FIVE METHODS

• C. Promotion
• This is a combination of public affirmation
  and prayer.
• It is a churchs willingness to heighten the
  corporate awareness of church planting and
  church planters.

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FIVE METHODS

• D. Provision
• Three Areas
• People
• Finances
• Real equity

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FIVE METHODS

• E. Permission
• This is the willingness of the leader to
  encourage their people to give.
• This is the willingness of the leader to
  release their people to go.

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GOING CALLS

• A vocational call
• A seasonal call
• A work team call

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MODELS OF PARENTING

• Unintentional
• Definition The local church embraces a plant it
  has not initiated with the goal of it becoming a
  growing, healthy multiplying church.

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MODELS OF PARENTING

• Intentional
• Definition This is where a plan and strategy is
  brought together in the life of a local
  congregation through the prompting of the Holy
  Spirit to birth a healthy, growing reproducing
  congregation.

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13 MODELS

• Daughtering
• Partner
• Cluster
• Satellite
• Multi-campus
• Colonization
• Other- language

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13 MODELS

• House church
• Cell church
• Niche church
• Nesting
• Church within a church
• New paradigm

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13 MODELS

• It takes all kinds of churches to parent all
  kinds of churches, using all kinds of models to
  reach all kinds of people.

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• Preparation Strategy

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PREPARE THE PASTOR

• You will have to overcome yourself.
• Buildings
• Bodies
• Bucks

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PREPARE THE PASTOR

• 2. You must be willing to make incredible
  investments
• Five Areas
• Members
• Money
• Mud
• Ministry resources
• Momentum

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PARENT IMPLEMENTATION WORKSHOPPart One

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• The number one reason that change and transition
  efforts fail in congregations is that they do
  not engage in readiness activities before they
  launch a change and transition process.
• George Bullard, Jr.

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PREPARE THE CONGREGATION

• Consider your present situation.
• When you may not be ready
• A church is going through a major change
• A church is spiritually immature
• A church has a large number of
• underdeveloped leaders
• A church lacks reproducing systems
• A church is in ill health

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• When a church is ready to parent
• A burden for lost people
• A willingness to step out in faith
• A vision beyond itself
• A spiritual maturity
• A generous spirit
• A people and leader willing to risk
• A kingdom mindset

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PREPARE THE CONGREGATION

• 2. Have an end-result in mind
• 3. Advance strategically
• Key Principle Make preparations and wait for
  Gods timing.
• 4. Negotiate the challenges
• 5. Get the right people on board
• 6. Evaluate your progress
• 7. Show results

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Why We Plant?

• Youll never have to worry about making God mad
  if you try to plant a church. It seems crazy to
  me that people are under the delusion they need a
  special calling to save souls, to disciple them,
  and to get them together to love Jesus. Whatever
  ministry you are with, you must understand one
  thing Church Planting is not for us, it is for
  God. We do it so God will have a people to
  worship Him.
• (Floyd McClung, YWAM)

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PARENT IMPLEMENTATION WORKSHOPPart Two

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PARENT ACTION PLAN

• Temperature taking
• Goal setting
• Path finding
• Engine starting
• Pit stops

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GOD GAP CHALLENGE

• The God gap is where our resources stop and Gods
  must start if we are ever going to succeed.
• Things you have never experienced before.
• The touch of Jesus like never before.

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THE NEHEMIAH PRINCIPLE

• It is in prayer burdens are birthed and plans are
  prepared.
• Three responses
• He could have ignored the problem
• Location
• Ability
• Workload
• Responsibility

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• Be ignited by the potential
• Inquire through prayer
• When I heard these things, I sat down and wept.
  For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed
  before the God of heaven (Neh.14)

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IMMEDIATE NEXT STEPS

• Cultivate the soil of your soul
• Connect with others
• Chart your course
• Celebrate the fulfillment of the dream

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