Definitions

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Definitions

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CP Workshop Definitions.ppt
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Church

• A local group of baptized believers in the Lord
  Jesus Christ who gather regularly for worship,
  nurture, and fellowship and who depart the
  gathering endeavoring to obey all the commands of
  the Lord Jesus Christ transforming families and
  communities.

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Church Planting

• The process of winning individuals and families
  to Christ through any and all means that
  effectively communicate to the culture, then
  gathering and baptizing them into the Body of
  Christ for the purpose of being and doing church.

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Church Planting Movement

• Local churches within a people group rapidly and
  regularly planting multiple new churches within
  the same people group as a normal part of being
  and doing church.

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Evangelism

• Taking the Gospel to ones own people group for
  the purpose of redeeming individuals and families
  in such a way that churches are planted and a
  Church Planting Movement can be started.

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Missions

• Taking the Gospel to a people group that is
  different from ones own for the purpose of
  redeeming individuals and families in such a way
  that churches are planted and a Church Planting
  Movement can be started.

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Ministry

• Meeting the felt needs of individuals, families
  and communities in such a way that the Gospel has
  an opportunity to be communicated and heard, and
  evangelism and/or missions can be accomplished.

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Access Ministry

• Ministry that is designed to provide access for
  evangelists and/or missionaries to an unreached
  or lost population segment.

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Strategy Coordinator/Catalyst

• The person given responsibility and held
  accountable for designing and implementing
  strategies that initiate and nurture a Church
  Planting Movement in a specific mega-city or
  among an ethno-linguistic people group, segment
  of that city or group, or homogeneous unit.

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Cross-Cultural or Foreign (X)

• People from a different culture.
• Usually ethnicity and language are different.
• Mature Christians are Cross-Cultural and/or
  Foreign to the World.

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Near-Cultural (gt)

• People from a similar culture.
• Usually ethnicity and language are similar.
• Christians are often Near-Cultural, especially if
  they are new or not growing.

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Cultural ()

• People from the same culture.
• Ethnicity and language are the same.
• Christians are Cultural when they are new and/or
  carnal.
• The gift of Evangelism allows a person to stay in
  touch with his/her culture and be a growing
  Christian at the same time.

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Cultural Baseline/Change Chart
Romans 12 1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in
view of Gods mercy, to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Godthis
is your spiritual act of worship. 2Do not conform
any longer to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then
you will be able to test and approve what Gods
will ishis good, pleasing and perfect will.
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Evangelist

Months as Developing Christian
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Culturally Appropriate
1 Corinthians 9 19Though I am free and belong to
no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win
as many as possible. 20To the Jews I became like
a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I
became like one under the law (though I myself am
not under the law), so as to win those under the
law. 21To those not having the law I became like
one not having the law (though I am not free from
Gods law but am under Christs law), so as to
win those not having the law. 22To the weak I
became weak, to win the weak. I have become all
things to all men so that by all possible means I
might save some. 23I do all this for the sake of
the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
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Culturally Appropriate
1 Corinthians 717-24 Nevertheless, each one
should retain the place in life that the Lord
assigned to him and to which God has called him.
This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.
Was a man already circumcised when he was called?
He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man
uncircumcised when he was called? He should not
be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing and
uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping Gods commands
is what counts. Each one should remain in the
situation which he was in when God called him.
Were you a slave when you were called? Dont let
it trouble youalthough if you can gain your
freedom, do so. For he who was a slave when he
was called by the Lord is the Lords freedman
similarly, he who was a free man when he was
called is Christs slave. You were bought at a
price do not become slaves of men. Brothers,
each man, as responsible to God, should remain in
the situation God called him to.
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Culturally Appropriate
Matthew 23 8But you are not to be called
Rabbi, for you have only one Master and you are
all brothers. 9And do not call anyone on earth
father, for you have one Father, and he is in
heaven. 10Nor are you to be called teacher, for
you have one Teacher, the Christ. 11The greatest
among you will be your servant. 12For whoever
exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever
humbles himself will be exalted. 13Woe to you,
teachers of the law and Pharisees, you
hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in
mens faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor
will you let those enter who are trying
to. 15Woe to you, teachers of the law and
Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land
and sea to win a single convert, and when he
becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of
hell as you are.
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Culturally Appropriate
Amos 5 21 I hate, I despise your religious
feasts I cannot stand your assemblies. 22 Even
though you bring me burnt offerings and grain
offerings, I will not accept them. Though you
bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have
no regard for them. 23 Away with the noise of
your songs! I will not listen to the music of
your harps. 24 But let justice roll on like a
river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
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Five-Fold Ministry
Ephesians 411-12 11It was he who gave some to
be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be
evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
12to prepare Gods people for works of service,
so that the body of Christ may be built up
13until we all reach unity in the faith and in
the knowledge of the Son of God and become
mature, attaining to the whole measure of the
fullness of Christ.
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Apostle (Ephesians 411-12)

• One who serves a community by bringing the Gospel
• One who serves the church by making disciples and
  training leadership
• One who introduces/trains obedience to God as a
  core concept and value
• One who holds leaders and churches accountable
  for their obedience

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Prophet (Ephesians 411-12)

• One who proclaims the Word of God and declares
  consequences of obedience and/or disobedience
• One who verbalizes in the body what the Holy
  Spirit has to say to the entire body
• One who trains others to be involved in prophetic
  ministry

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Evangelist (Ephesians 411-12)

• One who trains others to win individuals and
  families to the Lord in such a way that churches
  are established and a Church Planting Movement is
  started
• One who introduces the concept of obedience to
  the Word of God to individuals and families

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Pastor (Ephesians 411-12)

• One who exhorts the church to be obedient to the
  Word of God
• One who trains others to fulfill the shepherding
  roles in the church

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Teacher (Ephesians 411-12)

• One who teaches the Word of God
• One who teaches individuals and the church how to
  be obedient to the Word of God
• One to trains others to teach the Word of God and
  how to be obedient to the Word of God