Global CCMN

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Global CCMN

• Global Cell Church Mission Network

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CCMN Global Summit

• Taichung, Taiwan
• 5-8 November, 2002

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Global Summit

• Summit is not a Conference
• No Key Speakers
• Not a Conference to learn how to become a Cell
  Church

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Global Summit

• Come to Pray and Dream with Cell Churches from
  all parts of the World
• Come to Connect with the Rest of the Cell World
• Come to find out what God is doing in Other Parts
  of the World
• Come to be Stimulated by Others
• Come to be Inspired by the Holy Spirit
• Come to Reach the Unreached Together

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Participated Nations
Asia

• India
• Pakistan
• Bangladesh
• Sri Lanka
• Nepal
• Taiwan
• Korea
• Myanmar
• Indonesia

• Kazakhstan
• Philippians
• Malaysia
• Singapore
• Timor
• Hong Kong
• China
• Japan
• Kampuchea

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Participated Nations

• Europe
• Ireland
• Ukraine
• Russia
• England
• France
• Norway
• Germany
• Holland

• Australasia
• Australia
• New Zealand
• America
• USA
• Canada
• Brazil
• Africa
• South Africa
• Nigeria
• Kenya

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You Are Welcome!

• Contact Pastor Harold Weitsz
• Cell Church International

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ESSENCErather thanSYSTEM
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APPROACH IS IMPORTANT
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Imitating Models

• For the last 10 to 20 years, we have tried to
  imitate models
• It seems easier to imitate a model
• No one has successfully reproduce a model
• It has created much frustration
• It has created an unhealthy emphasis on
  super-churches

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Problems With Imitating Models

• We presume that models are supra-cultural
• By imitating models we lose our uniqueness
• It is really very hard to imitate a model

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Principles rather than Models
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The Principle Approach

• Principles rather than Models
• Life rather than Methods
• Goals rather than Materials
• Essence rather than Systems

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Releasing Gods Resources for Growth
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• (Mark 426-29) "He also said, "This is what the
  kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on
  the ground. (27) Night and day, whether he sleeps
  or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he
  does not know how. (28) All by itself the soil
  produces grain--first the stalk, then the head,
  then the full kernel in the head. (29) As soon as
  the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it,
  because the harvest has come.""

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• (John 155) "I am the vine you are the
  branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he
  will bear much fruit apart from me you can do
  nothing."

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The Cell System
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There Are Variety Of Systems

• There are many systems of Cell Churches in the
  world.
• Each system is good, but systems are not
  universal.
• We need to learn from systems
• The SYSTEM is not the ESSENCE
• The key is the ESSENCE DNA Indispensables

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Systems Are Important
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Release To Develop Systems

• Jethro (5x5) Is A System
• G-12 Is A System
• House Church Is A System
• There Are Many Different Systems

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What Is The Best System?
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The One That Works For Me
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I dont care whether it is a White Cat or a Black
Cat as long as it catches a mouse, it is a Good
Cat
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EMPHASIZE THE ESSENCE
RELEASE THE SYSTEMS
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Are Mega-churches the Ideal Church?
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What Are The Essence?
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Essence of Cell Church

• Relationships

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Relationships

• The heart and life of the church is the cell
• The cell is the basic part of the church
• The cell is not a program
• The cell is not a meeting
• The cell is life lifestyle

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Essence of Cell Church

• Relationships
• Participation

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Participation

• Everyone is actively participating and leading in
  ministry to others
• Ministry is not optional
• Everyone should be leading others to Jesus
• Everyone caring for others
• Everyone is ministering and leading

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Essence of Cell Church

• Relationships
• Participation
• Empowering

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• Leaders in growing churches concentrate on
  empowering other Christians for ministry.

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Empowering in the Cell Church

• Basic philosophy of the Cell Church is the
  priesthood of the believers
• Empowering is a foundational value of the Cell
  Church
• For Cell system to work, empowering is not an
  option

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A Faithful Cell Leader

• Leads the cell meetings
• Greets and follow up on all the newcomers to the
  cell
• Leads people to the Lord
• Follow-ups all the new believers
• Does all the visitations
• Arranges all the activities of the cell
• Rings up all the cell members
• Personally care for each member

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Wow!
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A Good Leader

• Dont do everything himself
• Persecute his members
• Be tough on them demands commitment
• Remember that God will spit out the lukewarm
  Christians from His mouth
• Why do it when you can get others to do it?

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Empowering

• Everyone is being trained and empowered to
  participate and lead
• Equipping and empowering is not an option
• People are not just trained but empowered
  trusted and released

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Language of Empowering

• Motivating
• Supporting
• Appreciating
• Developing
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Delegating
• Multiplying
• Shadowing

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Essence of Cell Church

• Relationships
• Participation
• Empowering
• Focused on Jesus

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Focused on Jesus

• Everyone experiences and worshipping Jesus as the
  centre of their lives and cell
• It is Jesus doing the work through us
• Leadership is given to Jesus
• Holy Spirit is allowed to do the work as He
  pleases

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Essence of Cell Church

• Relationships
• Participation
• Empowering
• Focused on Jesus
• Outreach and Multiplication

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The Great Commandment
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The Great Commandment

• Matthew 2236-40
• Mark 1228-31, 33
• Luke 1027

• Matthew 712
• Romans 139
• Galatians 514

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Question

• If Loving God is the 1st and Loving Neighbour
  is the 2nd, then why did the Bible summarise them
  with the latter and not the former?

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Outreach and Multiplication

• Everyone is actively reaching the lost and seeing
  cell reproduce itself
• The heart of God is for the lost
• People who follow the steps of Jesus must reach
  out to the lost
• This is the heart of the cell

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Essence of Cell Church

• Relationships
• Participation
• Empowering
• Focused on Jesus
• Outreach and Multiplication
• Networking

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Networking

• All cells are knit together by visionary, servant
  leadership
• Likeminded cell churches network together for the
  building of the Kingdom of God
• The cell is not independent but interdependent
• The same apply to the Cell Churches

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Essence of Cell Church

• Relationships
• Participation
• Empowering
• Focused on Jesus
• Outreach and Multiplication
• Networking
• Adaptable Structures

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Adaptable Structures

• The system and structure should be adaptable to
  the context of the society or culture
• The organization is to serve you and not to bind
  you