A Critical Analysis of Church-Planting/Disciple-Making Movements, Part 2: Disciples Who Make Disciples
This article is the second in a series of articles on Church-Planting and Disciple-Making Movements. In our first article, we explored the history and core characteristics of these multiplying movements (MMs for shore). In today’s article, I’d like to overview and analyze the first main strategy that movement leaders emphasize.
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Three Passe Assumptions of Tim Keller
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“De-Urbanization… For Keller, ministering in cities was ministering to the future. To plant churches in rural or suburban areas was a losing proposition. This is no longer the case.” - Juicy Ecumenism
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A Critical Analysis of Church-Planting/Disciple-Making Movements, Part 1: Something New Under the Sun?
“There is no new thing under the sun,” the Preacher tersely stated (Ecclesiastes 1:9). However, between 1997-1998, missionaries David Garrison and David Watson began to speak of “something new” God was doing in the world through a ministry paradigm shift that would eventually become known as a Church Planting Movement. According to Jerry Trousdale, “Over the last 50 years, and especially since the turn of the 21st century, the Spirit of God has been birthing a new concept in the earth. Instead of addition, the Spirit of God is calling forth multiplication.
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Every Church Should Be a Sending Church
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“Inevitably, the issue of church size enters the discussion. They say things like, “We’d like to do more, but we’re just a small church.” … Sometimes, comments about size serve as a cover for different concerns.” - Lifeway
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Way Too Many Characters (and a Happy Ending)
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Planting a Spanish-speaking church … in small town Wisconsin - GARBC
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Taking the Light to the City of Light: A Church Plant in Buffalo, N.Y.
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“In addition to their sending church and CBM, the Robbinses formed a church planting team that includes 24 churches and 30 individuals to make their vision a reality.” - GARBC
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Is the Multi-Service Model Really Practical?
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“I would argue that…. every additional service a church holds could be a new congregation that the church multiplies.” - 9 Marks
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Even Small Churches Can Plant Churches
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“We have learned that we don’t have to be a big church to do something great for the Lord….We constantly remind ourselves that church planting is not about the mother church’s seating capacity but its sending capacity.” - GARBC
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