We must learn to live like the apostle Paul, looking every day outside ourselves to Christ and seeing ourselves standing before God clothed in his perfect righteousness.
The place or building where your church meets is a great tool for accomplishing your mission, but the building itself is not the church. What happens when you meet there is also very critical to accomplishing the mission, but that’s not church either.
Twenty-five years ago in February of 1986, God was shaping my vision of training and coaching church planters
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We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.”— 1 Thes 2:8
God is advancing the multiplication of disciples through church planting movements around the world. However, CPMs are not happening everywhere. On a conference call last year with some of my OC colleagues around the globe, we identified common obstacles to movements.
The rapid multiplication of disciples and churches is God’s work in this world! Yet this is not seen in North America in the same way that it is evidenced in other regions of the world.
Rapid church growth is happening around the world. The rapid multiplication of disciples and churches in one region of China in the mid-1990s reported an increase from three churches to over a hundred churches in three years.
From April 1993 to April 1996, growth among house churches [in one part of China] increased from three churches with less than 100 members to over one hundred churches with over 16,000 members (by the end of 1998 they had grown to over 55,000)
One of the greatest needs for church planters is more and better leaders. The reality is that you will never be able to recruit enough leaders. There must be a commitment to the continual and intentional development of leaders.
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