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Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle?

Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle?. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle?. Growing Through Organic Reproduction. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle?. Growing Through Organic Reproduction God’s first blessing to humanity.

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Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle?

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  1. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle?

  2. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Growing Through Organic Reproduction

  3. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Growing Through Organic Reproduction • God’s first blessing to humanity

  4. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Growing Through Organic Reproduction • God’s first blessing to humanity • through organic reproduction

  5. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Growing Through Organic Reproduction • God’s first blessing to humanity • organic reproduction

  6. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Growing Through Organic Reproduction • God’s first blessing to humanity • through organic reproduction • multiplying disciples

  7. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Growing Through Organic Reproduction • God’s first blessing to humanity • through organic reproduction • multiplying disciples • developing new leaders

  8. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Growing Through Organic Reproduction • God’s first blessing to humanity • through organic reproduction • multiplying disciples • developing new leaders • indigenous churches planting sister churches

  9. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Is “multiplication” a tool, means to a goal, or God’s design, His intent?

  10. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Is “multiplication” a tool, means to a goal, or God’s design, His intent? • orthodoxyand orthopraxy

  11. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Is “multiplication” a tool, means to a goal, or God’s design, His intent? • orthodoxy and orthopraxy • implications

  12. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Is “multiplication” a tool, means to a goal, or God’s design, His intent? • orthodoxy and orthopraxy • implications • experiment: “Let’s try it and see if it works”

  13. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Is “multiplication” a tool, means to a goal, or God’s design, His intent? • orthodoxy and orthopraxy • implications • experiment • conviction: “Let’s be the church God meant us to be!”

  14. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Is “multiplication” a tool, means to a goal, or God’s design, His intent? • orthodoxy and orthopraxy • implications • what’s at stake?

  15. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Is “multiplication” a tool, means to a goal, or God’s design, His intent? • orthodoxy and orthopraxy • implications • what’s at stake? • warning: lampstands at risk

  16. Multiplication: Effective Strategy or Biblical Principle? Is “multiplication” a tool, means to a goal, or God’s design, His intent? • orthodoxy and orthopraxy • implications • what’s at stake? • warning: lampstands at risk • opportunity: for the church and an effective witness to the lost

  17. Learning from the World Christian Movement

  18. Learning from the World Christian Movement How the church is growing

  19. Learning from the World Christian Movement How the church is growing • rapid multiplication of organic communities (“C.P.M.”)

  20. Learning from the World Christian Movement How the church is growing • rapid multiplication of organic communities (“C.P.M.”) • sustainable

  21. Learning from the World Christian Movement How the church is growing • rapid multiplication of organic communities (“C.P.M.”) • sustainable • reproducible

  22. Learning from the World Christian Movement How the church is growing • rapid multiplication of organic communities (“C.P.M.”) • sustainable • reproducible • transformational

  23. Learning from the World Christian Movement How the church is growing • rapid multiplication of organic communities (“C.P.M.”) Question: Is this the recovery of biblical missiology or a strategically useful approach?

  24. Learning from the World Christian Movement How the church is growing • rapid multiplication of organic communities (“C.P.M.”) Question: Is this the recovery of biblical missiology or a strategically useful approach? Answer: Yes!

  25. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective

  26. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission

  27. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and makedisciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you… Matthew 28:18-20

  28. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication

  29. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication The things you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust these to faithful people who will be able to teach others also. 2 Timothy 2:2

  30. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication The things you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust these to faithful people who will be able to teach others also. 2 Timothy 2:2

  31. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • a special kind of relationship

  32. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • a special kind of relationship hands-on training

  33. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • a special kind of relationship hands-on training intimate, personal relating

  34. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • a special kind of relationship hands-on training intimate, personal relating fighting for the soul of friends

  35. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • a special kind of relationship • inclusive: church is a community of inter-dependant disciples

  36. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • a special kind of relationship • inclusive: church is a community of inter-dependant disciples mathetes (269x N.T.) is a synonym for true believer

  37. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • training for a life of ministry

  38. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • training for a life of ministry • growing in the word John 8:31 • becoming a servant John 13:34 • bearing fruit John 15:4-8 • sharing the gospel John 17:20

  39. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • training for a life of ministry • what’s at stake?

  40. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • training for a life of ministry • what’s at stake? • quality of personal and family life

  41. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • training for a life of ministry • what’s at stake? • quality of personal and family life • sustainable church growth

  42. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Our inherently relational commission • disciple-making is multiplication • training for a life of ministry • what’s at stake? • quality of personal and family life • sustainable church growth • quality of church life

  43. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Multiplication and the Dynamics of New Testament church life

  44. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Multiplication and the Dynamics of New Testament church life • centrality of the household (oikos)

  45. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Multiplication and the Dynamics of New Testament church life • centrality of the household (oikos) • home church

  46. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Multiplication and the Dynamics of New Testament church life • centrality of the household (oikos) • home church Acts 2:46; 5:42 Jerusalem Romans 16:5 Rome 1 Cor. 16:19 Corinth Philemon 2; Col. 4:15 Colossae 2 John 1:10 Ephesus

  47. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Multiplication and the Dynamics of New Testament church life • centrality of the household (oikos) • home church • household as an organic network

  48. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Multiplication and the Dynamics of New Testament church life • centrality of the household (oikos) • home church • household as an organic network familia—extended family, servants clientela—freed slaves amici—friends and colleagues

  49. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Multiplication and the Dynamics of New Testament church life • centrality of the household • evangelistic appeal of koinonia

  50. Multiplication in Biblical Perspective Multiplication and the Dynamics of New Testament church life • centrality of the household • evangelistic appeal of koinonia What attracted the ordinary man to Christianity? Undoubtedly the love of the Christians had a lot to do with it, so did the moralqualities they displayed, the warmth of their fellowship…

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