POUCH CHURCHES

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POUCH CHURCHES
Modified
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What Are You Aiming For?

• What fruit do you hope to see as a result of your
  ministry?

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What exactly is your ministry?

• Strategic thinking planning ?
• Equipping others for ministry?
• Modeling ?
• Mobilizing ?
• Enabling?
• Evangelizing discipling ?
• Planting a church ?

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Is your aim correct?
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Think More Broadly

• We must begin to think in terms of what needs to
  be done
• rather than
• what we can do personally.

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Your Goal

• Complete evangelization of whatever group you
  are working among!
• Nothing less than a true church planting
  movement among the people group !!

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What Are You Doing Now?

• Is the way you spend your time, the way you
  conduct your ministry now, in line with what you
  claim you are wanting to happen?
• Will your intended outcome result from your
  current ministry?
• If not, what do you need to change?

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Why not re-visit your goal?

1. Consider what your vision would look
like if it were fulfilled.
2. Consider what it would take to get there.
3. Work backwards, step by step, to your
present situation.
4. Take the necessary actions to retrace the
steps forward through time to your goal.

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Evangelizing 6 Million People

• You will need a church in every village and
  city neighborhood.
• 5,000 churches!

How many will it take for your People Group?
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Leading One Person a Day to the Lord

• --until
• my retirement--
• Result
• 15,000 new believers

• 6,000,000
• - 15,000
• 5,985,000
• left to win

How long would it take YOU?
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Twenty Church Planting Teams

• Planting one church a year--would take 250
  years to plant the
• 5,000 churches!

How many years will it take for your Church
Planting teams?
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Two Kinds of Churches
Mule
Horse
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A Mule Church

• Mules are sterile.
• They are hybrids.
• They cant reproduce.

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A Horse Church

• Produces a church every year
• which
• Produces a church every year
• which
• Produces a church every year
• Completing the job in 13.25 years!

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Winning Individuals/Planting Churches

• Winning individuals is
• not the same as
• Planting churches.
• Planting mule churches is
• not the same as
• Planting horse churches.

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Your Church
Based upon your endvision, what will the typical
church in your people group look like?
Describe this to your colleague!
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Describe the Kind of Local Church You Would Like
to See

• What will be the worship style?
• What are marks of success?
• Who will be the pastor?
• How many members will it have?
• Where will they meet?

What questions might you need to describe the
church among your people group?
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P.O.U.C.H. Churches

• Participative discussion characterizes Bible
  teaching. It centers on application.
• Obedience to Scripture by members and the group
  is the measure of success.
• Unpaid, often semi-literate lay people co-lead.
• Cell groups or small independent churches of
  about 15 members are usual.
• Houses or storefronts are typical meeting places.

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P Participative

• Participative Bible Study
• Every member a contributor
• Every member reproducing

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O Obedience

• Obedience to Scripture
• Bible is the authority not a leader, not
  another church, not tradition.

Bible mandate to share or take the gospel to
every people group.
Result Fruitfulness
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U Unpaid
Unpaid Lay Leaders
No seminaries available
Formal education would limit the pool of
potential leaders
Extras would slow down preparation time
Salaries would slow down multiplication of
churches
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U Unpaid (cont.)

• Advantages
• Reduced load
• Reduced requirements
• Prevented distinction between clergy and laity
• Preparation was on-the-job
• Ready supply of extra leaders

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C Cell Groups

• Cell groups or small Congregations will provide
• Intimate settings for effective accountability
• Assured involvement
• A doable leadership task
• A measure of security
• A true spiritual family with a high sense of
  mutual concern

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H House

• House churches
• No expense frees resources for outreach
• Intimacy helps maintain a go and serve
  mentality instead of a come and hear attitude
• Encourages witness to family and friends

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Your Ideal Church

• Ideal Church
• ?

• Critique your stated goal for an ideal church in
  terms of
• REPRODUCIBILITY.

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STOP!
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What is one major tool for establishing your
ideal church ?
The most important tool for establishing your
ideal church is modeling.
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Model Patterns

• In Bible studies, praying and singing.
  (Discipleship is not a body of knowledge to
  teach, it is a series of processes or concepts to
  be modeled.)
• By entrusting new converts to the Lord.
• By teaching that Biblical concepts are the same
  for all people.
• By teaching that they have the same Holy Spirit
  guiding and indwelling their lives.

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Model Patterns

• By involving believers in shared leadership from
  day of baptism
• By allowing new leaders to lead in new group
  meetings.
• In all discipling and training situations

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MODELINGParticipative Bible Study

• When you lead in evangelistic Bible study
• When you lead in discipleship training
• When you lead in leadership training

• MODEL!

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MODELINGObedience to Scripture

• Make obedience the norm
• Ensure that everyone follows the same pattern
• Teach that the Bible demands accountability
• Show the Bible is living book with which to
  interact

• MODEL!

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MODELINGUnpaid Non-professionals

• Use unpaid non-professionals
• or
• model in a way that can be reproduced by unpaid
  non-professionals

• MODEL!

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MODELINGCell Groups
Participate in a cell group
Look for natural groups. (It is easier to group
and win individuals than it is to win them and
then attempt to group them.)
MODEL!
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MODELINGHouses or Storefronts

• Encourage the usage of local homes or storefronts.

MODEL!
Houses become legitimate locales for
evangelism and spiritual activity.
Houses are much less threatening than a
traditional religious setting.
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Training Cycle
Model
Assist
Leave
Watch
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Model
As you train Church Planters
Church Planter
YOU
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Model
Church planting team does the work...
Church Planter
1st Generation
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Discipleship Chains
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Cell Group
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Cell Groups
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Church (Cell Group) Multiplication
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Assist
As team members and others do the work
YOU
1st
CPer
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Watch
Watch for second and third generation starts
you
3rd
Church Planter
Cell church
2nd
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Leave
Leave and start new work in another area. Begin
the process all over!
Church Planter
You
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Model patterns with new churches

• At the macro level when planting a church
• Provide assistance when asked
• Dont give opinions go to Scripture
• Observe from a distance to ensure that
  reproduction occurs
• Leave to begin new work elsewhere

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The Most Common Mistake

• Developing a dependence upon the church planter
  rather than on the Lord
• Over assisting!
• Inappropriate modeling!
• Not observing! Observing ensures they do things
  the same way the CPer did.

Dependence causes exiting never to occur!
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Jazz Chants

• Model, assist, watch and leave
• Modeling is great if you do things right...
• Assist means helpdont get in the way...
• Watch means observe best done from afar...
• Leave means go! Just get out of there...
• Just model, assist, watch and leave...

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To SUMMARIZE

• REALIZE your goal is important because it
  determines
• what is done
• who does it
• how they do it, and
• when they do it.

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To SUMMARIZE

• MOBILIZE the necessary people and resources to
  accomplish your goal.
• Do not be limited by what you can personally do.
• Do whatever it takes under Christ.

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To SUMMARIZE

• Develop (POUCH) or Horse Churches.
• Your goal should be nothing less than a church
  planting movement.

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To SUMMARIZE

• MAXIMIZE modeling opportunities at every level.
• Do this at the individual level in witnessing and
  discipling.
• Do this at the church planting and training level.

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To SUMMARIZE

• UTILIZE local leadership among believers.
• Always.
• Without exception.

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To SUMMARIZE

• EMPHASIZE the training cycle
• Model
• Assist
• Watch
• Leave

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Try Again!
Win Converts 1 Point
Plant Mules 5 Points
Plant Horses 1,000 Points
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