M28 church planting initiative in the centre of Europe

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M-28church planting initiative in the centreof
Europe
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Apostolic sphere

• Joel 1.1-3
• Joel 1.14/2.12/2.15
• Eph. 3.18

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Spiritual situation

• 800000 residents
• 80 catholic 10 prot. 10 others
• 0.3 believers
• Approx. 150 villages without churches
• Approx. 100 without christan testimony
• A great deal of occultism in the country
• A great deal of mystics in the city

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committed communitiescc
100 house- churches
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organic cp - apostolic cp

• Organic church planting
• 2. Transitional stage cp organic - structured
• 3. Transitional stage cp structuredapostolic
• 4. Apost. cp with multiplication of teams

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cp-cycle (acc. Paulus)
call/ leave/ teamforming /landing
Prayer
Multiplication
Apost. Evang.
Jesus Prayer Word Suffering
Development of leadership
discipleship
Committed community
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Main jobs of an apostle

• The apostel brings (radically) new staff
• Spiritual families
• Multiplication of the aposotlic

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Main jobs of the church

• 1.Cor 31-11 to water
• To administer ( continuing with farming the
  field)
• To make out new apostles and send them

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1. call/ leave/ teamforming/ landing

• Seeking God - God speaks
• 1999 period of fasting
• And God spoke, saying, Go forth from the ark,
  you and your wife and your sons and their wives
  with you. Gen. 815

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1. call/ leave/ teamforming/ landing

• God confirms
• Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,
  for by so doing some people have shown
  hospitality to angels without knowing it.
  Hebr.132
• Waiting
• In faith and not by sight

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1. call/ leave / teamforming/ landing

• Labour pains
• battles, price (Sarah)
• accomodation

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1. call/ leave / teamforming/ landing

• breakthrough
• Team
• Finances, double reward
• rainbow

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1. call/ leave / teamforming/ landing

• team
• apostles work always in teams
• team teamchurch / mobile church
• team teamleadership (honoring)
• Team 50 - ministry 50

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2. Prayer (walking)

• 1. the Lord is LORD
• 2. we claim the land and bless everything
• 3. we call people of peace
• 4. We need the leading of the Holy spirit
• 5. Proclaiming the gospel and plant churches
  with signs following
• 6. We want to become makers of disciples
• 7. We want to become a sending movement
  

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2. Prayer (walking)

• Love for the people
• Sursee ? town gate
• Praying man Bern-Luzern (Malters)
• Womens chain of prayer
• Demoniac battles -gtvomiting
• Richtstätte Schwyz
• Seance
• The land belongs to us

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3. powerevangelism
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3. apostlic evangelism
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4. Jüngerschaft incl. Evangelisation Training und
Gemeinschaft

• tools
• Discipleship is NOT a programm
• 50-75 Community / LTG
• Demonstration (EE, Powermeeting)
• Questions
• 11

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5. Discipleship incl. Evangelisation Training and
Community
coinonia / LTG One another-Scriptures 25
1.Joh 227 Joh 519
1.Joh 32
11 Discipleship with the bible 25
Coinonia /LTG Demonstration 25
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5. committed community

• challenge
• Church as spiritual family / community
• modern people ? community
• postmodern people ? discipleship
• covenenting ? commmitted
• extended family ? conflicts
• Supply-church participate-church

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5. community-gt structure
cp-team
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5. community-gt structure

• Coinonia Discipleship Multiplication
  spiritual family/HC/cc
• Coinonia Discipleship Multiplication Eldest
  Networking vernetzte HG/cc

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Development of a network
Deacons
CP- Team
Deacons
Deacons
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Netz mit Ältesten
Elders
Deacons
CP- Team
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Eph. 4 Dienste- Dienstgruppen
Eph. 4
Ministry groups
Elders
CP- Team
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Development of Leadership

• Redefinition of leadership
• A good leader leads good ???
• leader ladder
• New role of leaders trainer

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Leadership

• Disciple spiritually the highest level
• Leader (apostle, elder,diacon) disciple
• maturity for marriage
• maturity to start a familie
• Maturity of life
• Knowledge of the sripture

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4 levels of leadership

• Our principal values loving community,
  Discipleship, Multiplication
• Apostle -gt reproduces them lives them
• Jünger -gt loves them
• Deacons -gt take care that the values will be
  lived out by all of the cc-members lives
  them
• Elders -gt take care that the values will be
  lived out
• by the cc-networks lives
  them

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Multiplication

• Have children and increase your numbers. Fill the
  earth and bring it under your control
  Genesis (1.Mose) 128
• Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
  by baptising them in the name of the Father and
  of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and by
  teaching them to obey everything I have commanded
  you. Matth. 2819-20

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Multiplication

• Only if it comes to a
• A) (House)church planting movement and
• B) Apostolic movement
• we are able to execute the missionary command of
  Jesus!!

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Multiplication

• 2.Tim. 2.2
• Now pass on what you have recieved

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Multiplication on every level

• Disciples ---- new disciples
• Deacon ----- new deacons
• Elders ----- new Elders
• communities ---- new communities
• Networks ---- new Networks
• Eph. 4 ministries ---- new Eph 4 ministries
• CP Teams ---- new CP Teams

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Multiplication

• Multiplication of Cantons/Regions
• 2000 1.LU 1.CP-Team
• 2004 2.SZ(2000-2006)
• 3.ZG (2004-2005)
• 4.NW CP-Team
• 5.UR cc
• 2005 6.OW CP-Team
• 7.LU 2.CP-Team
• 2007 8.UR CP-Team

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Multiplication

• Multiplication of
• CP-Teams
• 20001 core team
• 20041 core team
• 2 sub-teams
• 3 cp-liveteams
• 2007 1 Baseteam
• 3 core teams
• 2 sub-teams
• 1 team sent out

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Multiplication

• Multiplikation cc
• Aug 2000 -gt Start
• Jan 2001 -gt 1 cc
• Dez 2004 -gt 9 cc
• -gt 1 DG
• -gt 4 cc I.
• April 2007 -gt 15cc
• -gt 3 I.

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M-28-gt Europe

• The vision
• Self-reproducition of
• Disciples
• House churches
• CP-Teams

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Suffering

• Suffering is one of the characteristic features
  of an apostolic ministry

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The 7 greatest misstakes

• 1.teamforming more delicate than expected
• Balance 1/3 1/3 1/3
• cp-live and core team seperated
• Not knowing each other -gt Risk!
• Role/function man-woman
• 50 energy for the team 50 energy for the
  work? Alles mal an uns selber !

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The 7 greatest misstakes

• 2. Prayer (Apg. 6.24) in the beginning okay
  but afterwards it saged.
• India (f.e. Prayerwalking)

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The 7 greatest misstakes

• 3. Evangelisation no apostolic evangelisation
• It took 3-4 years to build a community out of a
  pick n mixed group of

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The 7 greatest misstakes

• 4. Discipleship Program
• Discipleship based on the open bible
• Discipleship to share life

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The 7 greatest misstakes

• 5. CP - Commitment
• To many cc at once no time for real
  discipleship
• We took people which were already christians
• commitment insufficient explanation ? based on
  the new testament we want to live faith together

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The 7 greatest misstakes

• 6. Development of leadership
• Not a good leader leads goog OT Modell but a
  good leader is a good ladder NT Modell
• the job of a leader is to release spiritual
  level of a leader good disciple plus 4 fould
  maturity
• decentralisation too late ? started to late with
  the development of leadership

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The 7 greatest misstakes

• 7.Multiplication
• mistook addition with multiplication
• To many places at the same time
• decentralisation too late ? started to late with
  the development of leadership
• M. of cc and cp-teams

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My biggest question

• How to trigger church planting movements in
  Europe ??

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Spiritual situation in Europe
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Spiritual situation in Europe

• evangelical christians in Europe
• average 1-2,4 depending on count
• 24 Nations less than 1
• 11 Nations less than 0,2
• 250 000 villages without church
• 80 of the french people never saw or touched a
  bible

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Some examples

• Italia 0.9
• France 0.8
• Spain 0.8
• Russia 0.7
• Croatia 0.5
• Yugoslavia 0.4
• Lithuania 0.4
• Greece 0.4
• Austria 0.4
• Albania 0.3
• Luxembourg 0.3
• Slovenia 0.2
• Macedonia 0.2
• Cyprus 0.2
• Poland 0.2
• Azerbaijan 0.1
• Bosnia 0.1

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New church plantings

• On 300 existing churches one new church is
  found/planted

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The islamic challenge in Europe

• From 1900 to 2000 the number of moslems
  throughout the world octuplicated from 150
  millions to 1200 millions!

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The islamic challenge in Europe

• Europe (especially Southern - a. Eastern Europe)
  experiences a dramatic process of declining
  population
• Every year the EU needs about 1,6 millions of
  immigrants, to keep the economically active
  population on the same level

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The islamic challenge in Europe

• Today we have in Europe approx. 20-50 million or
  rather approx. 7 Moslems.
• If the trend will continue and without a
  spiritual Reformation, in 2025 they will count
  approx. 100 million
• By the end of the 21st Century Europe (
  Westmaghreb) will have a Muslim majority in the
  population.

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The islamic challenge in Europe

• 7 of all children born in Europe last year are
  Muslim
• In a city like Brüssel these are about 57
• Today the most common name for children in
  Brussels, Amsterdam and Rotterdam is Mohammed
• Today we already have small towns in Germany and
  France which are populated by 80 of Muslims

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Apostolic Ministries in Europe

• The Waldensians 1170 in Lyon
• Lay preacher,lay church planters,
  persecutions, dispossesions, turnouts and
  excommunications .
• Fruit fast spreading of waldensian groups
  from Spain up to the Baltic Sea as far as Hungary

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Apostolic Ministries in Europe

• The Baptists Zuerich-Europe-World
• Each candidate for baptism has to commit himself
  and his gifts to the matters of god and the
  spreading of the Gospel
• 20. April 1527 Augsburg martyr-synod (60
  leaders of the Baptists) target to evangelise
  Europe and to plant churches

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Apostolic Ministries from Europe into the whole
world

• 1727 the Moravian Brethren
• After revival chain of prayer for more than 100
  years for the spreading of the gospel
• Sending out of 3000 Missionaries between1732 and
  1930. This equals a twelth of the member of the
  moravian brethrens. All missionaries were tent
  makers and evangelised solely in unreached
  regions. Many of them gave their lives for their
  Lord.

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Apostolic Ministries in Europe

• John Wesley 1703-1791

• untiring he rode from town to town and preached
  daily four or five times (in total 40'000) in
  front of thousands of auditors
• They studied the Bible
• Small groups (classes)

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The vision of the 4 Blocs

• Situation at the end of the 80s
• Eastern Bloc
• India (H B)
• Islam
• Europe

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Why does Europe need an apostolic reformation ?

• Family (values) collapse
• Figures
• Postmodern-new groupsBusinessmen etc.
• New generation
• Social alteration
• Unreached regions in Europe
• New nations Bosnia Macedonia
• Foreigner in Europe / special focus Islam
• Commandment of discipleship
• Apostolic ministry is given (Eph. 4.10-11)

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Strategy

• To sow to call to coach to send
• To sow to call to send to mentor

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Breathtaking times

• 90 - 95 - Eastern Bloc
• 95 - WJ - India (a little Buddhism)
• 2000 - WJ - Islam millennium event
• ???? - WJ - Europe