CHURCH PLANTING MOVEMENTS

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CHURCHPLANTING MOVEMENTS
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WHAT IS A CHURCH PLANTING MOVEMENT?
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A Church Planting Movement is a rapid
multiplication of indigenous churches planting
churches within a given people group or
population segment.
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ANOTHER EAST ASIA PEOPLE GROUP
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CURRENT CPM IN EAST ASIA

• Every Christian a trainer.
• Practice testimony ten times out loud
• Practice first lesson in triplets
• Identify 100 friends and family
• Share testimony and lesson with five
• Teach the five to reproduce the process
• Keep teaching the next lessons out through the
  chain.
• Train trainers of church
  planters.

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THE GREATEST THING!

• IT IS GREAT TO WIN SOMEONE TO CHRIST
• IT IS BETTER TO START A CHURCH
• IT IS BEST TO TRAIN A CHURCH PLANTER

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THE KHMER OF CAMBODIA
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EAST ASIA PEOPLE GROUP
92,000 Baptized Believers
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SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA GROUP
240,000 Baptized Believers
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Church Planting Movements
The people walking in darkness have seen a great
light on those living in the land of the shadow
of death a light has dawned. - Isaiah 92
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TEN UNIVERSAL ELEMENTS
PART ONE
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ONE PRAYER
Prayer is fundamental to every Church Planting
Movement. It is typically the first element in a
master strategy plan, and it is the vitality of
the missionarys prayer life that leads to its
imitation in the life
of the new church
and its leader.
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TWO ABUNDANT GOSPEL SOWING
A Church Planting Movement does not emerge where
evangelism is rare or absent. The law of the
harvest applies well If you sow abundantly you
will also reap abundantly.
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The converse is also true wherever government
or social forces intimidate and stifle Christian
witness, Church Planting Movements are
effectively eliminated.
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THREE INTENTIONAL CHURCH PLANTING
In every Church Planting Movement someone
implements a strategy of deliberate church
planting before the movement can get
underway.
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FOUR SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY
Church Planting Movements rest solidly on the
authority of the Word of God. Even when the Bible
hasnt yet been translated into the heart
language, its authority is unquestioned.
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FIVE LOCAL LEADERSHIP
In CPMs, missionaries walk alongside local
believers cultivating and establishing local
leadership rather than doing it themselves.
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SIX LAY LEADERSHIP
Church Planting Movements are driven by lay
leaders. These leaders are sometimes
bi-vocational and always come from the general
profile of the people being reached.
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Reliance upon lay leadership ensures the largest
possible pool of potential church planters and
cell church leaders.
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SEVEN CELL OR HOUSE CHURCHES
In a Church Planting Movement churches begin as
small reproducible cell churches of 10-30 members
meeting in homes or storefronts.
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EIGHTCHURCHES PLANTING CHURCHES
As CPMs enter a multiplicative phase of
reproduction, the churches themselves plant new
churches. Nothing disqualifies local lay
believers from winning the lost and
planting new churches.
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NINE RAPID REPRODUCTION
Rapid reproduction is evidence that the churches
are unencumbered by non-essential elements and
the laity are fully empowered to participate in
this work of God.
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TEN HEALTHY CHURCHES
CPMs consist of healthy churches carrying out the
five purposes of 1) worship 2) evangelism and
missions, 3) education and discipleship, 4)
ministry, and 5) fellowship.
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Office of Overseas Operations International
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention P. O. Box 6767 Richmond, VA
23230, USA
ALL GODS PEOPLE MULTIPLYING CHURCHES AMONG ALL
PEOPLES