Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Frank Pardue
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Prayer
Prayer is the first pillar in the evangelism, church-planting strategy and a vital part of the
leaders personal life. The person who brings the gospel to others is a person of prayer.
Skills come later. Prayer is modeled by the leader for new believers so that they will also
become people of prayer.
How much time are you spending in prayer personally?
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How many people are praying regularly for your people group?
2.
Explain how you have started a deliberate or intentional strategy to plant churches
that plant churches?
4.
Scriptural ____________
What keeps groups from splintering into hundreds of groups? The key is leading
disciples to find the answer in scripture themselves. It must be clear that their actions and
plans must come from the authority of the Bible and the lordship of Christ, not the leader.
The Bible should be in heart language of people - either orally (for non-literates) or in
written form. If the Bible is the clear authority for the believers doctrine, church, and
_______, it allows disciples to grow at their own pace.
Many of the unreached are _____________ and are taught through memorization, Bible
storying, audio-visual methods (like Jesus film), songs, etc.
Rate the authority of Scripture among your people group in the chart below:
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Are lay people doing the church planting or are only the pastors and a few deacons
doing the church planting?
________ Leadership
Lay (or bi-vocational) leaders are encouraged because they are like the people in
education/outlook, etc. A group cannot multiply rapidly when dependent on
________________________ leaders.
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_________ leadership
Disciplers mentor church planters/group leaders rather than doing the job themselves
through participative Bible studies especially with non-Christian seekers. Foreigners also
make it a point to stay out of the spotlight and do not lead the church/group. They model
the motto: Never do anything yourself modeled after 2 Tim. 2:2.
Turning leadership over to Biblically qualified leaders (see Acts 14:23) avoids setting
standards that are unattainable and emphasizes that all are capable of being used by God.
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Unquestioned Authority
Are lay people leading every aspect of the new house churches or does a pastor need
to come to make them truly a church?
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What have you done (or what are you planning to do) to train the new churches/
groups to plant and train another church/group? Do the new churches/groups know
how to train other churches to plant churches? (Is the training of the new churches to
plant more churches dependent on you being the one to train them?)
Rapid _________________
Leaders recognize a sense of ___________ and importance of coming to faith in Christ.
Churches expect to reproduce rapidly. The goal is not to grow large.
12.
Do you know how to train people to lead house churches? Describe how you teach a
new believer how to lead a house church.
10.
Would the churches/groups you started be considered Rabbit churches (0-6 months
before another church planted), Horse church (6 months 15 months) Elephant
churches (15 months 3 years), or Mule church (no new churches planted)?
Healthy Churches:
Five core functions are in evidence, but may look different than traditional churches
a. Worship Celebrating Gods presence
b. Ministry Demonstrating Gods love.
c. Evangelism Communicating Gods message
d. Fellowship Incorporating into Gods family
e. Discipleship Educating Gods family
Overall, how well are you doing at these 10 Universal elements and what is one thing you
need to go back and change immediately? (Example begin to train lay church planters
once a week)
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