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Biblical Church Planting: Reflections and Realities in the 21 st Century

Explore the challenges and strategies of church planting in the modern era. Learn from biblical examples and discover practical insights for effective church multiplication.

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Biblical Church Planting: Reflections and Realities in the 21 st Century

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  1. Biblical Church Planting: Reflections and Realities in the 21st Century J. D. PayneReverb Arkansas September 17, 2015

  2. J. D. Paynejpayne@brookhills.org@jd_paynewww.jdpayne.org

  3. Church PlantingEvangelism that Results in New Churches

  4. Acts 13-14 Rom 15:20-21 Titus 1:5

  5. 1 Thes1:2-10

  6. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord. Your faith…has gone forth everywhere You became an example

  7. Pathway to Planting

  8. Team

  9. Present Challenges

  10. Ecclesiological Challenge

  11. Challenge of Pastoral Missiology

  12. Apostolic Pastoral

  13. Challenge of Complexity

  14. “have turned the world upside down”

  15. “The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing. It asks for no elaborate organization, no large finances, no great numbers of paid missionaries.” -- Roland Allen, Spontaneous Expansion

  16. “One man who is able to plant a church so modeled that very few ever could approximate his success is not thinking world evangelization. He is near-sighted. There may be room for unique models which are not reproducible, but if the world is to be reached, it will be by multiplication and not by addition.” -- Charles Brock, Indigenous Church Planting, 126.

  17. Reproducibility Complexity

  18. Challenge of Numbers

  19. Where do churches come from???

  20. Challenge of E0 and E1 Church Planting

  21. Realities

  22. Over 11,000 people groups in the world. • Over 6,000 people groups still not reached with the gospel. • Over 3,000unreached people groups that remain unengaged

  23. 74%of the United States has no relationship with Christ • 80% of Canada has no relationship with Christ

  24. An est. 360 Unreached People Groups Live in the United States • An est. 180 Unreached People Groups Live in Canada

  25. Countries with the Largest Numbers of UPGs

  26. Response: Stand on the Bridge

  27. Make the Expectation the Exception (and the Exception the Expectation)

  28. Embrace a Pauline Approach

  29. “Either we must drag down St. Paul from his pedestal as the great missionary, or else we must acknowledge that there is in his work that quality of universality.” -- Roland Allen, Missionary Methods

  30. Pathway to Planting

  31. Stop Expecting Pastors to be Missionaries(and vice versa)

  32. Prioritize According to Unreached PeoplesLeast Reached Places

  33. Keep It Simple

  34. Widen the Church Planting Table

  35. Plant the Church that IS, not the Church to Be

  36. Change Your Metrics

  37. Biblical Church Planting: Reflections and Realities in the 21st Century J. D. PayneReverb Arkansas September 17, 2015

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