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 Resources For While You …Learn God’s Multiplication Table. Discern how multiplying churches differs from merely planting new ones: Church growth and multiplication compared Confirm Jesus’ presence, as you agree on plans: Let your agreement be bound in heaven Read about how churches actually multiply. Workers and planners have found George Patterson’s article in the Perspectives Reader motivating and informative: Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches Read God’s compass. Start outreach in a right direction by following guidelines from the Book of Acts. This serious study can help you record effective action plans: Action points in Acts to extend outreach Common Traps To AvoidTrying to get as many workers on your team as possible. If you succeed at that, then you will fail to multiply churches. How many games would a coach win if put every child in school the same squad? Assume only professionals can plant churches. Most churches worldwide are started by untrained, new believers who want to win friends to Christ in a nearby community. Wait to build a strong home base before becoming a sending church. The longer a church waits, the harder it will be to reproduce, because believers grow accustomed to disobeying Jesus’ commands. Accept accountability to an organization  that insists on an institutional church, or that allows only professional clergy to baptize or serve Communion. Such rules force thousands of new churches around the world to disobey Jesus’ commands. Invite close friends to serve on your advisory board. Unless they agree fully with your multiplication strategy, painful disaster awaits you. Fail to examine an administrative yoke before putting it around your neck. Unwise accountability can turn out to be a painful noose. If you are considering work with an agency or ministry team, then first find out if the person to whom you will be accountable agrees with your vision and plans. Many workers whose only mission agency is a sending church have started movements. Workers prove most effective when an “Antioch church†sends them with permission to follow New Testament guidelines and to obey Jesus’ commands above all else. |
Bind Your Agreement to Multiply
Bind Your Agreement to Multiply