Conversation Guide 2 | Planting Healthy, Multiplying Churches

Conversation Guide 2 – Planting Churches

In this conversation guide, we walk through the Book of Acts to explore the key steps involved in planting and forming new churches.

THE EARLY CHURCH GREW AS ORDINARY BELIEVERS SHARED THE MESSAGE OF JESUS, GATHERED IN COMMUNITY, AND FOLLOWED THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

This guide will help you and your team learn from their example and apply those principles today. Together, you will discover how to start new churches that are simple, sustainable, and focused on multiplying disciples.

By following the patterns found in Scripture, you can help form communities of faith that grow naturally and impact the world around them.

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Guide 2 Overview

This Guide provides a comprehensive plan for local church or regional leaders to equip church planting teams to reach new areas or people groups. With the New Testament book of Acts as their manual, this Guide can be used to equip teams to plant a variety of types of local churches as well as mission hub churches that will intentionally reach their city or regions. All essentials are covered, including reasons for planting, theological frames, the preparation needed, the importance of relational streams; the essential ethne, oikos and mission-hub models of planting; centred-set faith and church, New Testament case-studies, ethne and oikos mapping; as well as a multiplication plan and district church planting project plan.

Local church leaders and ministers, mission catalysts, and state or regional mission agency and denominational leaders committed to equipping volunteer or paid church planting teams. Experience has demonstrated that when teams of 4 or more are equipped, the new church plant will be most effective and sustainable.

This equipping can be delivered in a weekend retreat, over several weekends, or one evening a week over several weeks. It is ideal for either in-person or Zoom formats. The workshop host or facilitator could be a local minister/pastor, a key local leader, or a regional denominational or ministry/missions leader seeking to foster a movement of church planting. All invited to participate should come in their teams of 4 or more—or if the training is done by Zoom, these teams will work together in “breakout rooms.” Together they will prepare their Church Planting Project Plan.

The host/facilitator needs to download Conversation Guide 2 (FREE) and the videos (FREE) from here.

Each participant will need:

(1) A printed Conversation Guide 2: Planting Churches—in which to write notes and plans.

(2) A supply of Discovery Bible Reading bookmarks and Discover Jesus starter Bibles (of Mark, John and Acts).

(3) A copy of If You Are Thirsty … You Can Be Spirit-filled (Signs 2018).

All printed guides, bookmarks and books are available from HopeBooks and the Adventist Book Centre Online.