Adapted from Carol Davis, Leaf-Line Initiatives, 1990
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CHURCH GROWTH |
CHURCH MULTIPLICATION |
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Aims |
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Seek individual conversions |
Seek family and group conversions |
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Evangelize on believer’s turf |
Evangelize on unbeliever’s turf |
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Read Scripture for information |
Read Scripture to apply it |
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Find more Christians |
Find “persons of peace†(Luke 10) |
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Gather in facilities |
Gather in homes |
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Celebrate mainly in large groups |
Celebrate and serve one another mainly in small groups |
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Build programs and buildings |
Build leaders |
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Leadership |
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Employ a lone, professional church planter |
Local, lay volunteers form church-planting teams |
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Import a professionally trained “Senior Pastor†|
Name local shepherds from among believers |
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One leader leads many members |
Leaders equip many emerging leaders |
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Finances |
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Pay a full-time church starter |
Equip many bi-vocational church starters |
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Make a heavy financial investment |
Make a minimal financial investment |
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Raise harvesting resources from the outside |
Find resources in the harvest |
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Organization |
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Focus first on the church’s needs |
Focus first on the community’s needs |
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Church life centers around clergy |
Church life thrives within small groups led by lay leaders |
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Clergy give most spiritual care |
Lay members serve one another doing gift-based ministries |
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Develop the local Body of Christ |
Develop also the active Army of God |
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Seek additive growth |
Seek also reproductive growth |
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