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Church Planting

Multiplying "communities of disciples who follow Jesus."

Our desire is to follow Jesus ultimately to see a healing gathering of Christ-followers within practical, cultural and relational distance of every person and touching every neighbourhood with Christ's saving power, love, care and truth - that “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea (Habakkuk 2:14).”
 


 

Beginning Your First Disciple-Making Community:

Making disciples

Forming disciple-making communities

Understanding Church Planting Movements:

 

Root principles of Movements that Move - Dwight Marble

 

Church Planting Movements (CPMs) - David Garrison                       

Can CPMs take place in the West? - David Garrison and Ed Stetzer  

"Critical Elements of CPMs" - David Watson, in 2 formats:

"CPM Counter-Intuitives" - David Watson, 20 brief teaching segments (in MP3)

 

Mission Frontiers on T4T; full issue on CPM approaches.

 

Carol Davis: "Stop Planting Sterile Churches" (PDF)

  • The difference between church planting and CPMs (Perspectives "Lesson 13")  MP3 audio

  • How to plant reproducing churches (Perspectives "Lesson 13")                         MP3 audio

Perspective on the Global Task:

The Past: click here for a very encouraging historical perspective

Today: (click on either of these images to enlarge)

 

 

Each dot represents evangelical presence.

Next Steps: please read Seven Million Churches to Go - Jim Montgomery 

 Comparative Global Needs for Church Planting:

Global and regional maps: in PowerPoint or PDF

By Country: in Excel including

  • % evangelical & evangelical growth rate

  • % Christian & Christian growth rate

  • unreached people groups

  • number of Christian congregations

  • church-to-population ratios (showing comparative priorities for church planting)

  • number of new churches needed to bring church-to-population ratio to 1:1000

Christian, Evangelical and Muslim distribution and trends (PowerPoint).

Other Studies: Todd Johnson - "Christianity in Global Context: Trends and Statistics" (PDF

"Discipling a Whole Nation" Strategies (DAWN or SCP): Practical steps for those committed to engage a 'whole city, region or nation':

In a Word - What is DAWN? - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

13 Steps to Saturation Church Planting - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

Fire in the Philippines - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

The Discipling of a Nation - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

Seven Million Churches to Go - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

Then the End Will Come - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

Also by Dr. Montgomery:

13 Steps to a Successful Growth Program - Dr. James Montgomery (PDF)

The DAWN Research Handbook - Roy Wingerd (PDF)

Contributions to a Canadian Experiment - Murray Moerman

Leadership involves learning to develop teams

For links to more church planting sites, please click here.

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