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Touching People for Christ in Your Own Backyard . . .

How to Make a Difference in Your Community!. Touching People for Christ in Your Own Backyard . . . Adapted from Neal Hughes, NAMB, and The Community of Hope Model in Montgomery, AL. HOPE Helping Others Prepare for Eternity. Dilemma: Hurting souls not entering the church house.

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Touching People for Christ in Your Own Backyard . . .

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  1. How to Make a Difference in Your Community! Touching People for Christ in Your Own Backyard . . . Adapted from Neal Hughes, NAMB, and The Community of Hope Model in Montgomery, AL

  2. HOPEHelping Others Prepare for Eternity • Dilemma: Hurting souls not entering the church house. • Solution: Let’s go to them with never a regard that they come to us… and let’s love them to Jesus! • A church without walls! • RCM Church Planting Department, MBCB

  3. Montgomery, AL What Is the Community of Hope? The Community of Hope exists to proclaim the HOPE of Jesus Christ to the unreached people of Montgomery and the world through multihousing and non traditional church planting. • Mother Church-Hope Community Baptist Church… A Church without Walls…Member of the Montgomery Baptist Association. • Project Hope-In Partnership with Area Churches to take the Gospel to the unreached. • Hope Community Ministries-Respond to the needs of the overlooked and ignored of society and plant churches in their midst. • Hope Network-Build relationships and friendships with like minded Christians across the continent, networking for the purpose of beginning a church planting movement in North America through city church development. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  4. What does the Unreached Culture Look Like? A Cycle of Hopelessness… Then Jesus made a circuit of all the towns and villages. He taught in their meeting places, reported kingdom news, and healed their diseased bodies, healed their bruised and hurt lives. When he looked out over the crowds, his heart broke. So confused and aimless they were, like sheep with no shepherd, the overlooked and ignored. Matthew 9:35-36 (The Message) Church Planting Department, MBCB

  5. The Church has been charged by our Savior to make a difference to hurting souls…. Luke 4.18-19 Church Planting Department, MBCB

  6. Isaiah 58.10,12 Church Planting Department, MBCB

  7. Are You Ready to Make a Difference in Your Community? • Ephesians 3.20-21 • Habakkuk 1.5 Church Planting Department, MBCB

  8. 1. Enter the Area • Probe a community with windshield surveys and dream discussions. • Get all permissions from the local management. • Organize your team (minimum of 2, maximum of 7), and begin strategizing. • Begin to Pray, and Spy Out the Land. • Intensive Prayer Meetings with Team • Tabernacle Prayer Church Planting Department, MBCB

  9. North American Mission Board Multihousing Church Planting • TWO TYPES OF CULTURE GROUPS • (From a Spiritual Perspective) • Type A- This group (commonly called “oikos group”) • Type B- This group (commonly called “the pagan pool”) MULTIHOUSING CHURCH PLANTING PENETRATING THE INNER CITY CULTUREMISSIOLOGY 101 Church Planting Department, MBCB

  10. North American Mission Board Multihousing Church Planting Church Planting Department, MBCB

  11. North American Mission Board Multihousing Church Planting THE PAULINE CYCLE OF MISSIONS • The Fundamental Elements of Paul’s Master Evangelism Plan/ Missionary Enterprise • The Holy Spirit was the Divine Director- Acts 13:2; 52 • Prayer was the Atmosphere- Acts 13:1-4 • The Scriptures were the Foundation- Acts 15:15 • The Church was the Agency- Acts 15:22 Church Planting Department, MBCB

  12. North American Mission Board Multihousing Church Planting THE LOGICAL ELEMENTS OF PAUL’S MASTER PLAN OF MISSIONS • Missionaries Commissioned- Acts 13:1-4; 15:39-40 • Audience Contacted- Acts 13:14-16; 14:1; 16:13-15 • Gospel Communicated- Acts 13:17-41; 16:31 • Hearers Converted- Acts 13:48; 16:14-15 • Believers Congregated- Acts 14:21-22; 15:41 • Faith Confirmed- Acts 14:21-22; 15:41 • Leadership Consecrated- Acts 14:23 • Believers Commended- Acts 14:23; 16:40 • Relationships Continued- Acts 15:36; 18:23 • Sending Churches Convened- Acts 14:26-27; 15:1-4 Church Planting Department, MBCB

  13. North American Mission Board Multihousing Church Planting MOST OF THE INNER CITY RESIDE IN MULTIHOUSING • Multihousing- refers to both attached homes and those in close proximity with shared amenities. This would include: • Private Apartment Communities • Condominium / Association Communities • Manufactured Housing Communities • Senior Housing Communities • Public Housing Communities Church Planting Department, MBCB

  14. North American Mission Board Multihousing Church Planting NORTH AMERICA MULTIHOUSING FACTS: • More than 30% of North America lives in multihousing. • Apartment dwellers have doubled in the past 20 years in North America. • By the year 2010, more than half of all North Americans will reside in multihousing. • While public housing may remain the residence of last resort, many people choose multifamily dwellings for a variety or reasons, including convenience, lifestyle and community. • Once considered the home of the poor, multihousing communities dot the entire North American social-economic landscape, from low income to $5 million dollar homes. • 60% (120 million people) of the unchurched of America live in multihousing. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  15. North American Mission Board Multihousing Church Planting SPECIAL NOTE…. When outreach efforts to assimilate someone from multihousing to the local church were attempted, the success effort reached only 24%. However, when a church is planted on site, the success rate of retention jumps to 70%! Church Planting Department, MBCB

  16. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting WHAT DO THOSE WHO LIVE IN THIS CULTURE LOOK LIKE? WHAT ARE THEIR NEEDS? LIFESTYLE .... • Many who live in this community are very nice, relationship oriented, and grateful for your assistance. • Many are in a single parent dwelling, with several children and family members who “stay” there. • Many have an income at poverty or below status, working minimum wage jobs. • Many are either insured by Medicaid or have no insurance. If they have a steady job, more than likely they will not have medical insurance. • Many love their children dearly, and are doing their best to help them succeed in life. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  17. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • Many encounter on a regular basis an environment that produces the vices of life… drugs, alcohol, prostitution, gangs, drive-bys, etc.; many have experienced jail or have a close family member in jail. • Many are either experiencing personally or know of someone close to them that has been killed or wounded violently, or suffering from such horrible diseases such as Aids, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, etc. • Many live in a community where the majority of the youth are either dead or in prison. • Many do not have a vehicle, thus not allowing them to wander far from their community (many have never been to the mall or Wal-Mart in Montgomery). • Many women suffer from the silent sins (i.e. starch, chalk addiction, incest, gang rape, etc.), and several commit acts of prostitution, drug selling, etc. to support addiction, or to survive with needed income. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  18. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • Many drink or do drugs to escape the hopelessness of their community, home, and personal regrets. The heaviest addiction presently seems to be crack • Many are seeking “community,” and will find it with the good or the bad, pending on who gets there first. • Many will say yes to almost anything, but don’t always mean it. Politeness generally dictates priority over being honest. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  19. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting WHAT DO THOSE WHO LIVE IN THIS CULTURE LOOK LIKE? WHAT ARE THEIR NEEDS? Theology .... • Many have some understanding of God, and generally a holy respect of Him and His people (more so than the suburbs). • Many, if asked, know the language of Zion, and speak of some distant church attendance, but are unchurched at present. • Many are hungry for a relationship with Jesus, but generally lack the discipline to “stay the course” in the midst of living in the middle of “Sodom.” • Many have an “Armenian” background, thinking they lose their salvation when they sin, thus having many hands raised again for “the sinner’s prayer.” Church Planting Department, MBCB

  20. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • Many have been influenced somewhat by Muslims and Jehovah Witnesses, and some demonstrate the post-modern habit of forming one’s own religion. • Many are sincere about their desire to walk with God, and be transformed by His power. They usually do well with small accountability groups who monitor their commitment to holiness. • Many feel they have inferior clothing to go to a conventional church, and many do not have the means to get there without asking for a ride. • Many are anxious for added events such as literacy, GED, etc. They are genuinely appreciative of your coming to tell them about Jesus, and to help them help their community. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  21. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • Many respond well with the gospel narratives, and with biblical story telling. One does not need to go through all the “pre-talk” to point them to Christ. They prefer you to “cut to the chase.” • Many welcome any kind of “relationship/friendship oriented” meeting (i.e. block party, bible study, sitting under a tree, servant evangelism, etc.) but dislike the “come in, conquer, and leave” mentality that most churches have when dealing with the inner city. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  22. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting HOW DO I REACH OUT INTO THE INNER CITY? • BE YOURSELF... • You have been made in the image of God. You have your testimony and your gifts given by Him. People of all cultures appreciate transparency, and a person that is genuine. • BE IDENTIFIABLE... • Don’t go “cloak and dagger” trying to fit in. Identify yourself and your purpose as clear as you can. People of all cultures appreciate honesty. • BE SENSITIVE... • They are dealing with a much harder life than you. Constantly ask yourself, “What would Jesus do?” Church Planting Department, MBCB

  23. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • BE SIMPLE... • Many can’t read or suffer with learning disabilities. Use gospel narratives to share the plan of salvation. Use the “KISS” formula. • BE CONFIDENT... • Don’t go in fear, but with power, love and a sound mind. You don’t need to be consumed with the danger. This robs you of the joy of building friendships. • BE FRIENDLY & RESPECTFUL... • Nobody likes a wise guy in any culture. Don’t dare look down upon them! Church Planting Department, MBCB

  24. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • BE COURTEOUS… • Eat what’s before you, accept their hospitality. Don’t give “body language” signs of caution, or mistrust. • BE PRAYERFUL… • Unless the Lord saves them, everything you do is in vain. God will use you and your personality. Trust Him! • BE POSITIVE… • Treat them like Jesus would. Hover around John 3:16. Point them to hope, God’s word, and a better day in Christ. • BE HELPFUL… • Look for ways to help, but not to take over. Always see everything as a partnership. Be careful to get their opinion and blessing before starting a project. Meet the need and plant the seed! Church Planting Department, MBCB

  25. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting MULTIHOUSING CHURCH PLANTING PROBE .. LEARNING ALL YOU CAN ABOUT YOUR TARGET AREA WHY DO A PROBE? • A Probe helps you to understand your Target Group • A Probe helps you to understand your Strategy • A Probe helps you to understand how to Pray • A Probe helps you to understand the Needs of the Community • A Probe helps you to understand the DNA of the Community • A Probe helps you to understand the Possibilities in the Community Church Planting Department, MBCB

  26. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • PROBING DEVICES • ScanUSA / www.scanus.com • www.reply.com • Claritas Prism / www.claritas.com • National Multihousing Council / www.nmhc.org • Website browsing … key links … demographics, census, city site, community site • Drive around … ask questions to business people and neighbors outside the territory. Drive the community and observe the people, the homes, the cars and the yards. • Research the Multihousing Company Church Planting Department, MBCB

  27. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • Talk to surrounding churches … Can we partner? Is there any history? Are they there for us or against us? • Do a history of the City, Community, People Group, etc. • Do a Community Needs Survey… Ask the people in the community you are to serve several questions, such as: • What are the greatest strengths to your community? • What are the greatest weaknesses? • What do you consider as the greatest needs in your community? • How can we best assist you and your family? • What do you think about God? Church? Their relationship with Jesus? Ask if there are any needs you can pray with them. • Ask them what they think about you planting a church in their community? Church Planting Department, MBCB

  28. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting SPIRITUAL MAPPING • Spiritual Mapping is a means by which you examine beneath the surface of the material world, looking at the spiritual habits and history of the community and defining any spiritual strongholds. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  29. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • What is the spiritual health of the area? • Are there any strongholds that stand out? • Has evangelism been easy or hard? • What is the health of the surrounding churches? • Who are the Christian leaders in the area? • How is their spiritual health? • Is there any sign of unity? • What is their view toward • morality • church • spiritual things? Church Planting Department, MBCB

  30. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting SPIRITUAL REFLECTION FROM THE PROBE • What specific issues rise to the surface from all of your research? Form a Prayer team to start praying immediately over these issues. • Self & Team Reflection: What kind of theology to I have about missions? • What kind of strategy is the Lord telling me from this probe? • Am I truly seeing these people through the eyes of Jesus? • If not, why? • Is there a firm sense from the Holy Spirit that He is directing me specifically to this place? • Does my team have the “go” light from Jesus? Church Planting Department, MBCB

  31. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting • Is our team united in purpose? • Are we prayed up and the demons prayed down? • Do I have others outside my team praying earnestly for this project? Church Planting Department, MBCB

  32. 2. Evangelize the Community • Prayerwalk the Community for seven consecutive weeks, at the same time every week (The Jericho Prayer Walk). • As you get to know the people, do an informal community needs survey, and prepare to act upon it (How can we best help you?). • As you go through the neighborhood these seven weeks, assimilate the people of peace for vision casting and prayer (Luke 10.5-7). Church Planting Department, MBCB

  33. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting PRAYING YOUR FRIENDS TO CHRIST • We Must Pray… • Because It’s God’s Heart (1 Timothy 2:1-4; Matthew 6:10; Romans 10:1) • Because of the Condition of the Lost… • They’re blind (2 Corinthians 4:3-4); • They’re bound (2 Timothy 2:25-26; Ephesians 2:2; Colossians 1:18); • They’re condemned (John 3:18); • They’re under God’s wrath (John 3:36; Ephesians 2:1-3); They’re helpless (John 6:44, 65; Colossians 2:13); • They’re hopeless (Ephesians 2:12). Church Planting Department, MBCB

  34. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting HOW DO WE PRAY FOR THE LOST? • Pray With Praise and Thanksgiving (Psalms 100:4; 1 Timothy 2:4)… • Pray According to the Promises of His Word (2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 5:14; Mark 10:27)... • Pray for Laborers (Luke 10:2)… • Pray Remembering Where You Once Were (Ephesians 2:4-8)… Church Planting Department, MBCB

  35. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting PRAY FOR THE LOST INDIVIDUAL(S)… • Pray for Receptive Hearts (Luke 8:5,12) • Pray that their Eyes will be opened (Matthew 13:15) • Pray for their Attitude adjustment (John 16:8) • Pray for them to be Released to believe (2 Timothy 2:25-26) • Pray for their Transformation (Romans 12:1-2) Church Planting Department, MBCB

  36. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting PRAYER WALKING … • Jericho Prayer Walk… • Seven times or Seven Weeks… Pray and talk to the people. Be a gentle witness. Ask them what you can pray with them about. Discover People of Peace & Goodwill. • Servant Evangelism Prayer Walk… • Meet the need and plant the seed! • Peripheral Prayer Walking / Driving… • Have people go on a regular basis praying down strongholds and praying up your spiritual quest of reaching that community. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  37. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting THE ABC’s OF PRAYER WALKING… KEEP IT SIMPLE! • Keep your eyes and ears open. • Listen, and then speak. • Go with a partner or two. • Move slowly so that God may move fully. • Claim God’s promises. • Anticipate the devil’s interference. • Expect God to answer your prayers. • Tell people that you are praying for them and their neighborhood. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  38. Tabernacle Prayer Model • Altar of the Tabernacle • Follow the scarlet thread to NT and you see the cross • Thank Jesus for the cross. • Laver– • Confess your sins (1 Jn 1.9; Ps. 53.”Create in me a clean heart”) • 7 fold Candlestick • Thank God for Holy Spirit, His power, His witness in our life of Jesus Christ, His role in our life as the comforter. • Shewbread • Loaves made fresh every day. Word of God is fresh every morning. • NT – Bread of Life (Word of God) • Read the Word of God as a group • Incense • Shekinah glory of God all around. • Worship before the Lord acknowledging His presence in our lives. • Bema Seat • NT – veil torn, now we can go directly to presence of God and present our requests. Intercede for the lost community, seek God’s strategy, and any special requests. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  39. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting Final Thought … Remember … NEVER do we accomplish more … Quicker… than when we’re praying! Church Planting Department, MBCB

  40. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting MULTIHOUSING CHURCH PLANTING DISCOVERING & DEVELOPING A PERSON OF PEACE PERSON OF PEACE … Sometimes called “a person of good will,” this individual is someone who is receptive, of reputation, and is a person of referral. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  41. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting EVERY COMMUNITY WILL HAVE PEOPLE OF PEACE … • Demoniac- Mark 5:1-17 • Woman at Well- John 4; • Cornelius- Acts 10; • Lydia- Acts 16:11-15; • Philippians Jailer- Acts 16:29-34). Church Planting Department, MBCB

  42. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting FINDING A PERSON OF PEACE Luke 10:2-11 A Person of Peace will: • Welcome You • Speak Kindly to You • Be a Person of Hospitality (i.e. Invite you into their surroundings/ home) • Have a Heart of Compassion • Share a Similar Vision • Sense the Need for Change Note: You will find in this person an instant friend, who will open the door to others. Make this your base of operation, and your first indigenous leader. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  43. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting Neil Cole and Paul Kaak, Organic Church Planting… “Often, the person of peace has the church meet in their home and may even be the new leader of the emerging church. A church that starts this way is unique in that it is born out of the harvest, is found among the harvest, and is bent on a mission to continue to reach the lost.” Church Planting Department, MBCB

  44. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting DEVELOPING A PERSON OF PEACE… • Become a Friend- • Accept Hospitality- • Go Out to Eat • Fellowship on a Regular Basis • Form a Prayer Triad • Meet Regularly to Mentor • Be The Coach • E. Have An Exit Strategy … • The person of peace must get off the “training wheels” of your hands-on leadership, or church planting will not take place. Church Planting Department, MBCB

  45. Person of Peace… G12 The Governance of Twelve… • Mark 3:13-15 • Call Those You Have Influence Over • Meet Regularly (Caught vs. Taught) • Purpose- • Be With You (Fellowship) • Carry Out the Work You Started (Kingdom) • Build Their Own Ministry (Their G12) Church Planting Department, MBCB

  46. 2. Evangelize the Community (continued….) • Toward the end of the seven weeks, announce and plan a great harvest event (i.e. block party) for the 8th week. • At the sixth week of prayer walking, have people of peace begin to announce that you will be gathering every week at this time at a specific location to study God’s Word and pray… all are invited. Invite to the Harvest Event, too! • Begin to build your strategy for assimilating the new Christians into small groups (i.e. men’s group, women’s group, children’s group). Start preparing the people of peace to be the “principal” in these groups. • 8th week… Celebrate Jesus at the Harvest Event! Church Planting Department, MBCB

  47. 3. Equip the Believers • 9th week… Begin group through “Let the Celebration Continue,” or some beginner discipleship booklet, showing the new believer some of the essentials of Christianity. This should last for six weeks. • Have at least weekly meetings, hosting children in BYBC, and hosting the adult groups in the following way… Church Planting Department, MBCB

  48. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting MULTIHOUSING CHURCH PLANTING HOW TO PRODUCE AN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched- this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.” 1 John 1:1 Church Planting Department, MBCB

  49. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting Cell Church- the living organism of the body of believers in small groups for the purpose of worship, experiencing God, ministering to one another and ministering to and evangelizing the community. “A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a local body of baptized believers who are associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ, committed to His teachings, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth” (Baptist Faith & Message, 1998). Church Planting Department, MBCB

  50. North American Mission BoardMultihousing Church Planting WHY DO CELL CHURCHES DEVELOP AN ORGANIC COMMUNITY? BECAUSE IT’S… Church Planting Department, MBCB

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