An Appropriate and Effective Church Planting Model

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An Appropriate and Effective Church Planting
Model

• An Overview of the UEPG Process of the IMB
• South America AGM in 2008

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A Model of Church Planting

• Model that engages an unreached ethnolinguistic
  people group or a segment of that ethnic group
• Model that evangelizes in that groups heart
  language or dialect
• Model that is pitched to or based upon the most
  common demographic characteristics of the EPG
  being evangelized unless the group has singled
  out a segment of that group for evangelization

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A Model of Church Planting

• Model where the local churches can initially fit
  in a typical house, shop, clinic, cave, shed, of
  the common people within the UEPG. They may stay
  there or may find housing for their church
  elsewhere.
• Model where housing the church is the
  responsibility of every congregation that becomes
  church not the church planters
• Model that possesses, understands, conducts and
  accomplishes witness, discipleship and leader
  mentoring on site within each local church being
  planted

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A Model of Church Planting

• Model that brings competent personnel on-site to
  assist in building into the model the previous
  functions through non-academic, mentoring means
• Model that can be reproduced by orals, by
  literates, by educated persons and/or uneducated
  persons. The issue is that the church planting
  model is such that the potential exists for any
  person within the majority profile of the group
  to function normally as a believer and even be
  called and established by God as the pastor of
  that church. No church goes outside for a pastor
  or other leader.

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A Model of Church Planting

• Model whose Gospel content and presentation
  engages, addresses and speaks to the common
  worldview barriers to the Gospel through the most
  tactful and effective Biblically-based content
  and cultural presentation avenues
• Model wherein church members understand the need
  and intuitively find change Scriptural passages
  or stories to ones that more effectively address
  worldview issues

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A Model of Church Planting

• Model wherein church members sense who, when and
  under what conditions a gatekeeper/s will arise
  and who find means of minimizing or preparing for
  a gatekeepers attempts to stop them and their
  church
• Model wherein function determines form
  (structure) while tenaciously avoiding the
  development of any outside institutions upon
  which the multiplication of churches depend

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A Model of Church Planting

• Model that does not place on the emergence and
  existence of new local churches any
  extra-biblical rules, practices and restrictions.
  This is especially true concerning the New
  Testament right of a church to
• recognize itself as a church,
• call its own pastor,
• grant its pastor the right to handle the
  ordinances of baptism and Lords Supper.
• This is a major reason for the growth of Baptists
  in history, but our people fail at this more than
  any.

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A Model of Church Planting

• Model that is intuitively, instinctively, and
  habitually instilled into the churches by the
  third generation of the churches that are
  planted. The model is so present that this
  generation will naturally reproduce this model in
  the fourth generation of churches and that fourth
  generation will do the same as with the
  succeeding generations.
• A model where the SC, team members or no other
  leader from the outside will pastor one of the
  churches at least during the first five
  generations and prayerfully none after that

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A Model of Church Planting

• Model that causes each new church to develop to
  start another church like theirs with all of
  these characteristics of their model or feel
  unfilled as a mother who wants a baby but has not
  yet had one

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A Summary of A Church Planting Model based upon
Lessons Learned through Historic Missiological
Studies, CSI and Fifteen On-site Church Planting
Movement Studies

• Prepared by Dr. Jim Slack
• Missiologist and Field Assessments Consultant for
  IMB