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Multiplying Churches

Multiplying Churches. The Local Church is the only HOPE For the world!. The creation of new bodies of believers is implicitly understood as a normal expression of New Testament Missiology. Percent of US Population Attending Church. Source: The American Church in Crisis, David T. Olson.

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Multiplying Churches

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  1. Multiplying Churches

  2. The • Local Church • is the only HOPE • For the world!

  3. The creation of new bodies of believers is implicitly understood as a normal expression of New Testament Missiology.

  4. Percent of US Population Attending Church Source: The American Church in Crisis, David T. Olson

  5. Churches Opened and Closed Each Year Sources: The American Church in Crisis by David T. Olson and Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird

  6. Churches Opened and Closed Each Year Sources: The American Church in Crisis by David T. Olson and Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird

  7. Churches Opened and Closed Each Year Sources: The American Church in Crisis by David T. Olson and Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird

  8. Churches Opened and Closed Each Year Sources: The American Church in Crisis by David T. Olson and Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird

  9. Churches Opened and Closed Each Year Sources: The American Church in Crisis by David T. Olson and Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird

  10. Churches Opened and Closed Each Year Sources: The American Church in Crisis by David T. Olson and Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird

  11. Churches Opened and Closed Each Year Sources: The American Church in Crisis by David T. Olson and Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird

  12. Churches Opened and Closed Each Year Sources: The American Church in Crisis by David T. Olson and Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird

  13. Growth Rates for Evangelical Churches by Age Source: The American Church in Crisis, David T. Olson

  14. Why do you think the Church is in this present crisis?

  15. Why multiply rather than just plant? • Because Jesus’ goal was not a single healthy church, but a movement.

  16. Church multiplication (planting) is an effective evangelistic methodology. • Church multiplication necessitates an outward focus. • Church multiplication is the natural result of a growing, healthy church. • Jesus had no desire for one healthy church, but his vision was a movement of churches

  17. What are barriers to multiplying churches?

  18. Two Barriers to Church Multiplication • Fear of loss. • Loss of… • Members • Money • Mud (parts of the community) • Momentum • It is NOT a resource issue, it is an issue of the heart!”

  19. The Heart of the Matter • It is not the size of the church that matters, but the size of the church’s HEART that makes all the difference!

  20. 2. Corporate selfishness-it is all about us. • Church Multiplication is a spiritual decision of a local church to put the needs of a desperate world before self-preservation.

  21. How can we keep up? • Churches plant churches not Denominations or Conferences. Why? • Don’t have the resources • Don’t have the right leadership pipeline • Don’t have the contextual relationships.

  22. Churches Denominations Conferences

  23. Big Question: HOW? • Three typical ways: • Hive off • Internships • Intentional small group development • Permission Giving.

  24. Now What? • Pray for God’s spirit and presence • Cast vision for a movement • Identify those God may be calling • Study your community • Schedule training • Promote missional communities - (TKP) • Pick your twelve.

  25. Desire What it takes to start a movement. “Want to” Vision Knowledge Passion 25

  26. Resources Desire What it takes to start a movement. “How to” Personnel Training Finances “Want to” Vision Knowledge Passion 26

  27. Resources Desire Climate What it takes to start a movement. “How to” Personnel Training Finances “Want to” Vision Knowledge Passion “Get to” Interdependence Strategy Harmony 27

  28. 3. The right climate • A positive and prevailing attitude, held by a majority of pastors and lay leaders that church multiplication is our goal.

  29. Resources Desire Climate What it takes to start a movement. Frustration “How to” Personnel Training Finances “Want to” Vision Knowledge Passion Futility “Get to” Interdependence Strategy Harmony Fruitlessness Effective Church Planting Movement 29

  30. Movements are never clean, safe, or predictable. They must be dangerous to be effective. They are always unsafe, messy and risky.

  31. Where are you in the Circles?

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