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Multiplying Through Intentional Disciple Making. Trainers. George Klippenes. Matt Larson. Web Sites. www.efcastartchurches.org. www.jointheanthem.com. Goal. Exegete Conference Logo. Multiplication Question?.
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Trainers George Klippenes Matt Larson
Web Sites www.efcastartchurches.org www.jointheanthem.com
Goal • Exegete Conference Logo
Multiplication Question? • Do you want to be the largest church in the community or do you want to church your community? • Bob Roberts
Exhortation: Start Two • Every healthy church a reproducing church • Every church start two daughter churches • Replace Yourself • Advance Kingdom
Reproducing Disconnect • Believers • Disciples • Leaders • Small Groups • Church Plants • Not Size, It is DNA!
Historical Pattern • "Christianity has always expanded through the multiplication of churches. The book of Acts records how the boundaries of the Christian faith were pushed to the uttermost parts of the world through the multiplication of new churches. • To this day, throughout every generation, Christianity has extended to new areas and new peoples via the multiplication of new churches." (Robert Logan)
What happened? • “How did Christianity change from a faith spread primarily through church plantingto a faith in which church planting has become an unusual practice?” (Ed Stetzer)
Sterile Church Question • "You go into the poor areas of Manila, you plant churches rapidly, they always produce their own leadership, they are never dependent on outside funds and they always reproduce. • "I know two other brothers who plant churches in the same areas and it takes them six or seven years. They are always dependent, they never reproduce and they never can produce their own leadership. They say poverty has destroyed the psyche of the people and they are not leadership quality. • "I want to know why you can do it and they can't." (Carol Davis)
Beneath Surface • Why churches are not catching fish.
First Stage • Matthew 28:19-20 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
Laymen’s Movement • Ephesians 4:11-13 (ESV) 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Missional Movement • John 20:21 (ESV) As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” • Acts 1:8 (ESV) 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Stair Step Commitment • Come and see • Come and follow me • Come and abide • Come and die
Sign Covenants • Covenants are signed at the end of each class. • Increasing commitment with each step and each class.
Plug into Cells • People do not grow on their own. • We all need other people to help us grow.