DEVELOPING PEOPLE IN THE CELL CHURCH

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DEVELOPING PEOPLE IN THE CELL CHURCH
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When we think of developing people, we often
think of Leadership Development
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NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LEADERSHIP IN THE CELL CHURCH
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LEADERSHIP IN THE BIBLE

• The Bible has 200 verses that has the word
  leader or leaders or leadership in it
• However, most of the verses mentions leadership
  with no direct teaching
• There are less than 5 verses which directly teach
  about leadership

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Today, we like to emphasize Leadership, but the
Bible does not seem to do so.
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The Bible seems to emphasize something that we do
not and do not like to even mention today.
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We like to talk about LEADERSHIP but the Bible
talks about

• FOLLOWERSHIP

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Followership

• In the New Testament
• Disciples 294x
• Follow 76x
• Obey 86x

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The Bible emphasizes Followership while we
emphasizes Leadership
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Leadership and Followership

• When everyone follows, it is not hard to be a
  leader
• When no one wants to follow, even the best leader
  cannot be an effective leader

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• (Ephesians 522) Wives, submit to your husbands
  as to the Lord.
• (Ephesians 525) Husbands, love your wives,
  just as Christ loved the church and gave himself
  up for her

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Husband and Wife

• Do wives need to love their husband?
• Do husbands need to submit to their wives?
• Why only the husband love the wife?
• Why only the wife submit to the husband?

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First Commandment Towards Men

• Honour your father and your mother, so that you
  may live long in the land the LORD your God is
  giving you. (Exodus 2012)

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Where is Honour today?
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Ask your child to do something and what will he
say?

• Why?

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Church as a Family
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Church as an Team
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Church as an Army
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Submission

• Do what the leader says even though you do not
  agree with it. The choice is not yours.

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

• Ours is not to reason why
• Ours is but to do or die

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Dion Robert

• Pastor of Cell Church in Ivory Coast he started
  with one family less than 20 years ago and now
  has over 100,000 members

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Leadership and Followership

• When everyone follows, it is not hard to be a
  leader
• When no one wants to follow, even the best leader
  cannot be an effective leader

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What about Leadership?
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How does God lead us?

• (2 Corinthians 618) I will be a Father to you,
  and you will be my sons and daughters, says the
  Lord Almighty.

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DEVELOPING PEOPLE IN THE CELL CHURCH
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Developing People is Spiritual Fathering
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My Spiritual Father
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Fathering is not only Something that You Do

• Fathering does not finish when the task is
  finished

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Instructor Vs Father
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Instructor Vs Father
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Instructor Vs Father
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Instructor Vs Father
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Instructor Vs Father
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Developing People

• Developing People cannot just be a program
  although we use programs
• Caring and Love is the Key
• Each individual is unique
• We cannot love only on the group scale

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Program-oriented/Material-oriented
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Personalized-oriented/Picture-oriented
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Developing People

• Personalized-oriented
• Parenting-oriented
• Picture-oriented
• Purpose-oriented

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How To Go From Durban To Pretoria?
3. How do you get there?
Durban
Pretoria

2. Where are you?
1. Where are you going?
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Whatever you do, you start from the beginning!
NO
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You never start from the beginning, you always
start with the end!
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How do you build a table?
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How do you sing a song?
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You need a Blueprint
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Jesus knew His life mission
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Paul knew his life mission
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Two people getting married

• Are you willing to take this man?
• I will!
• Are you willing to take this woman?
• I will!
• And they live happily ever after!

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Here comes the baby!

• What sort of child will it grow up to be?
• What values?
• What qualities of life?
• What social skills?
• What spiritual qualities?
• What physical qualities

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Important Principle!

• Whatever you do, you need a blueprint you need
  to see the end picture before you are ready to
  begin!

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The first thing you need in Developing a Person
is to have a Blueprint.
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The Concept of the Journey Guide

• You can have Journey Guides for whoever you
  want to develop

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You can have Journey Guides for

• New Believer initial follow-up
• Growing Christian discipleship
• Cell Leader leadership
• Supervisor of Cell Leaders coach
• Zone Pastor pastoral staff
• Others worship leader, youth worker, etc.

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How To Go From Durban To Pretoria?
3. How do you get there?
Durban
Pretoria

2. Where are you?
1. Where are you going?
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Six Parts of a Journey Guide

• Welcome page
• Understanding the present and the past
• Testing your knowledge section
• Understanding growth issues
• Introducing new concepts
• Journey Map

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Journey Map for New Believer
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Building the Items in the Journey Map

• This is Flexible
• There are many tools you can use
• Be Simple
• The Best Tool is the Word of God
• When the goal is clear, you can be flexible in
  your Method
• When Method is clear, you may not achieve the goal