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House Churches

which Multiply

Disciples making disciples...

• new churches starting new churches…

• new chains of churches…

• sustainable church multiplication

RPT Workshop Level One PowerPoint 1-1-2012 = WITH WORDs & info version for ENG context = A.pptx

Workshop Level 1

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Workshop Concepts Introduction1. Pray out more workers. 2. SHARE authority with your apprentices.3. Commission & send out workers.4. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers.5. Keep instructions SIMPLE6. Worship7. Have workers start flocks (in houses of worthy persons)

so as to reach whole families.8. Encourage workers to bond with the people & adopt

their customs.9. Expect Persecution 10. Proclaim the original Good News.11. Permit God’s miracles as others report activities and

results.12. Listen to workers.

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• Introduction

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• Introduction Answer this question: “What makes a church?”

• Matthew 16:16-20. • Matthew 18:18-20. • Matthew 28:18-20.

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• Introduction Answer this question: “What makes a church?”

Matthew 16:16-20. Authority to bind and to loosen.Matthew 18:18-20. Real Presence of Christ in congregations of any size.

Matthew 28:18-20. Teaching to obey all of Jesus commandments.

Jesus is the One who builds His church.Jesus gives authority to bind and to loose.Jesus promises to answer prayer.Jesus is in the midst of those who gather in His name.Jesus commanded us to make disciples who obey his commands. Application….Flocks come in all sizes. Cell groups can be little flocks within big congregations. Cells and congregations can all obey the commands of Jesus, doing all that the NT expects of them.

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• Introduction

• Have each group’s members pray together to bind themselves together as a flock and to invite Jesus to be in their midst.

• Have each group’s members choose one of them to serve as its shepherd. After one minute, pray for those elders to have grace and gifts from Jesus to serve their flocks.

• Show these shepherds a simple way to serve communion and let them serve their flocks.

• Discuss how were the things you just did commanded by Jesus, easy to do and imitable?

• An easy way to serve the Lord’s Table (If denominational leaders allow)• If you do not serve communion during the opening session, then do it

later to illustrate obedience to Jesus, or how to train novice leaders, or • Invite the flock shepherds come near to you so you can instruct them.

Have the flocks prepare themselves for communion. Invite them to listen to your instructions to their shepherds.

Form groups into little flocks

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#1 Praying

&

Looking

• Pray out more workers. (1)

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

Jesus said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."

Mt 9:37-38;   Lk 10:2

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

Ask & Discuss:What kinds of workers to train and send?

Q

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

Ephesians 4:7-13 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it[a] says:

“When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men.”[b]

(What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions[c]? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)

It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

Group Bible discovery

What did Jesus do when training new

workers? • Mark 3:14-15. • Mark 6:6-13. • Mark 6:30.

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• Mark 3:14-15. They be with him and he send them out.• Mark 6:6-13. He gave them instructions and sent them out.• Mark 6:30. They returned and reported to him.

Jesus had His trainees accompany Him. He gave them power over demons. He equipped them to proclaim God’s Word. He listened to their reports. He did not simply teach them theory for some future work.

Also : Jesus modelled pastoral skills in a way that His disciples could easily imitate, Jesus trained only a few, so that He had time to deal personally with all of them in

a loving way, Jesus made plans with them, to keep them focused on what they would do with

the people, Jesus aimed at social networks instead of individuals when he evangelised Jesus gave specific commands for His disciples to obey. Jesus helped them to exercise basic ministry skill.

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

- Chains of churches -

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

Antioch, Ephesus,

Colosse Laodicia….

Hieropolis

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Group Bible discovery

What did the apostles do to train

new workers?

• 2 Timothy 2:2. • Colossians 1:7-8.• Colossians 4:12-17.

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

Group Bible discovery

What did the apostles do to train new workers?

• 2 Timothy 2:2. Training ‘chains’.• Colossians 1:7-8. Epaphras.• Colossians 4:12-17. Nympha.

Apostles and shepherds trained new workers on the job.Apostles and shepherds maintained chains of trainers who trained others in turn.

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Group Bible discovery

• 1 Timothy 1:3-4. • 1 Timothy 5:21-22.

• Titus 1:4-5.

What is a “Training Coordinator”?&

What is the role of training coordinators?

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

Group Bible discovery

What is the role of training coordinators?• 1 Timothy 1:3-4. Exhort, warn, train.• 1 Timothy 5:21-22. Keep the rules without partiality.• Titus 1:4-5. Put churches in order, appoint elders.

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• Pray out more workers. (1) Also…

Coordinators ensure that new leaders get appointed in new flocks. Coordinators provide for the training and instruction of novice leaders. Coordinators seek to get churches planted in every town. Coordinators set up TEEE (theological education and evangelism by extension)

programmes. Coordinators train trainers provide materials and oversee record-keeping. Coordinators inform congregations about neglected communities so that they

can pray. Coordinators discern when the work is completed in a region (Romans 15:18-

21).

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

Question:

Can someone summarize this concept (regarding praying & looking for new

workers)?

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• Pray out more workers. (1)

Work group tasks• Draw a map or your work area, showing

the existing flocks and cells that could send workers to start new cell groups and congregations.

• Name coordinators for each region in which you work and plan to work, who will start or strengthen an extension Bible school.

• Pray together, asking God to thrust more workers into the harvest.

• Ask the Holy Spirit to empower your current workers to train many novice shepherds for new flocks.

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Tea & Coffee

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#2 Share Authority

• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

Jesus called to him his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority over the unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure diseases and to heal every affliction. After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others … and said to them, “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.”

Mt 10:1; Mk 6:7; Lk 9:1; Lk 10:1, 19

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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

Skit: “Sheep and Wolves”

Ask:• “Which is more valuable, sheep or humans?” (Matthew 12:12: How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! )• “What number of sheep is an unacceptable loss?” • “What do wise pastors do when their flock grows big?”

• Matthew 7:15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

• Matthew 10:16: I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

• Luke 10: Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.• Acts 20:29: I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among

you and will not spare the flock.

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Group Bible discovery

• 1 Timothy 3:1-7. • Titus 1:5-9.

What kind of persons should be trained as shepherds?

• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

The KEY: enrol individuals who meet biblical requirements of shepherds as listed in Titus 1:5 9 and 1 Timothy 3:1-7.‑

Other suggestions:• Trainers should not enrol as many as possible simply to have bigger training

classes. Teachers of big groups usually fail to prepare leaders who shepherd others, and their teaching sessions become a mere exercise for passive students.

• Trainers should enrol only leaders, and potential leaders, who will begin at once to shepherd others. Enrolling students who are not leaders loses the discipline of shepherd-level training.

• Novice trainees should begin at once to shepherd their own families and any friends who join their new congregation or cell.

• It is awkward for a shepherd to teach believers what they have also already learned along with him in a training program that enrols everybody in his congregation.

• When commissioning apostles and shepherds, do not impose man made requirements that are not biblical. Such traditions remain one of the biggest hindrances to flock and leader reproduction.

Skit: “Jesus the Rock”

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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

Skit: “Jesus the Rock”

Ask:• Who is the “rock” & what do we learn for application?

Remember…• Both builders listened to Jesus’ words, but only one

obeyed. (“Both kinds attend this workshop!”)• Jesus was explaining the foundation of our lives and

ministries. This foundation is not simply a doctrine; for it requires us to have a loving relationship with Jesus and to obey His commands.

• Jesus said, ‘If you love me, obey my commands.’ (John 14:15).

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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

Matthew 28:18-20Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in

heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[

a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I

have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

• “What was the risen Christ’s final command?” [Answer: To make disciples of all nations.]

• “How should Christians make disciples, according to Jesus’ teaching?” [Answer: We are to baptise them and teach them to obey Jesus’ commands.]

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Group Bible discovery

Acts 2:37-47

In what ways did the early church obey Jesus’ commands?

• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

ACTS 2:37 “When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” 40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. The Fellowship of the Believers 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”

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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

ACTS 2:37 “When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” 40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”

Repentance; Baptism; Love; Giving; Prayer; Lord’s Supper; Evangelism and Edification

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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

Ask: What did the 3,000 new believers start doing right away?

• It was these commands that the 3,000 new believers in the first church began obeying at once.

• These are Jesus’ main commands, upon which all other New Testament commands and ministries are based.

• In Islamic regions, the list can be shorted to six by combining the first two. In Buddhist regions, the list can be increased to eight by separating love for God and love for others.

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Question:

Can someone summarize this concept (regarding SHARING your authority with

your new workers)?

• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

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• SHARE authority with your apprentices. (2)

Group work tasks• Identify which of the commands of Jesus

need attention in your churches & cells?• Make plans to authorize workers and

flocks to perform the commands of Jesus.

• Write on your maps the name of workers whom you would like to enrol as trainees.

• Pray for one another that the Lord Jesus will call many folks to faith and all you all to make disciples of them.

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Tea & Coffee

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#3 Commission new workers

& send them in teams.

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• Commission new workers & send them in teams. (3)

Jesus sent them out two by two, to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. “Go your way, He

said, “Behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of

wolves”.

Mt 10:5; Mk 6:7; Lk 9:2 and 10:2

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• Commission new workers & send them in teams. (3)

What are some biblical models of starting new flocks?

• Acts 10:21-27 with 10:45. When summoned, Peter took along companions.

• Acts 13:1-3 with 14:21-25. Send out apostles who start new congregations.

• Acts 18:1-3 with Romans 16:3-5. Self-supported workers start home-based groups.

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• Commission new workers & send them in teams. (3)

Remember:• The Acts 10: A “man of peace” who called together

his relatives and friends.• The Antioch model of a flock sending apostles who

started new flocks in a region and stayed long enough to appoint elders in every new flock.

• Aquila’s and Priscilla’s self-support model, moving to other cities and starting churches in homes.

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• Commission new workers & send them in teams. (3)

• Travelling in groups of two or more was Jesus’ and the apostles’ consistent practice.

• There is more power from God when two or more agree together in prayer.

• Team workers can usually bring more spiritual gifts into play than can one.

• Some workers may have speaking gifts and others may have serving gifts.• Team workers can experience the Presence of Jesus in their midst

• Team workers serve as reliable witnesses to the outcomes of their work.

• Team workers can encourage each other and keep each other accountable.

• When one worker trains others, they will often go out together for a time.

• When one worker is detained at a place, the others can go on or return where needed.• Team workers appear more serious and important to sceptical communities.

Are there advantages of going in small teams? YES!

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• Commission new workers & send them in teams. (3)

Group work tasks

Plan to commission publicly those who shepherd flocks and whom you will send to start new flocks.

In your plans, note the names of persons with different gifts whom you can put together in teams.

Pray for one another and for those who will form task groups that will start new flocks.

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Tea & Coffee

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#4 INSTRUCT workers

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Give Clear Instructions

for your trainees

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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)

Jesus instructed his disciples,

"Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of

the house of Israel.” Mt 10:5-6; Mk 6:8

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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)

Acts 1:8 “___________________________.”

What are four kinds of places in which God wants his servants to start new flocks?

• Jerusalem (a town), • in Judea (a region), • in Samaria (another culture), and • to the ends of the earth.

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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)

Criteria for choosing a new field in which to work.

Workers should choose a people group that is:

• Neglected. Its congregations are too few, not yet reproducing, or do not fit its culture.

• Receptive. Local people respond to the Good News and put their faith in Christ.

• Reachable; easy to reach. God will open doors for you to work there, often through believers’ friends and relatives.

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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)

1) Pray to begin.2) Listen to reports.3) Plan Ministry 3) Plan Studies. 4) Assign reading. 6) Practice new skills. 7) Pray for each other, again.

MentoringTime with your trainee(s):

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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions to apprentice workers. (4)

Remember…• Mentors listen to each trainee’s report on what his

flock is doing or is lacking. Listen! God does this with us…. He listens to the cry of our heart. Ps 107:6.

• God planned  ministry this with Elijah, giving him assignments. See 1 King 19:13b -19. “What are you doing here, Elijah?"

• Trainers and trainees plan  together what the trainees will do with their congregations during the next week or two. They may practice together a ministry skill, to prepare the student.

• The trainer assigns  Bible  reading   and other studies that correspond to each trainee’s plans. Jesus did this with his disciples and does this with us.

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• Instruct Workers. Provide clear instructions. (4)

Show on your map neglected places, people groups and families where you will send workers to evangelise and start churches.

Identify current and potential trainers whom you will train to mentor novice leaders. Draw a faces on your map and write names in your plans and. If you must speak to them first, then write a query mark (“?”) beside their name.

Make a plan to hold a workshop like this one for your co-workers and workers in other ministries.

Group work tasks

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Tea & Coffee

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#5 Keep instructions

SIMPLE

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Keep instructions SIMPLE (5)

Jesus charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff, no bread, no bag, no money in their belts. but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. He said to them, “Take nothing for your

journey, no staff, no bag, no bread, no money; and do not have two tunics. Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road. Acquire no gold nor silver nor copper for your belts, no bag for

your journey, nor two tunics nor sandals nor a staff, for the laborer deserves his food.”

Mt 10:9-10; Mk 6:8-9; Lk 9:3; Lk 10:4

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Keep instructions SIMPLE (5)

Question… “What happens when believers exhort, comfort and instruct one another?”

Read 1 Corinthians 14:24-25.

But if an unbeliever or someone who does not understand comes in while everybody is prophesying, he will be convinced by all that he is a sinner and will be judged by all, and the

secrets of his heart will be laid bare. So he will fall down and worship God,

exclaiming, "God is really among you!"

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Keep instructions SIMPLE (5)

Group work tasks Show on your map (or in some other way

identify) the neglected areas of a population that can be evangelised with low-cost methods and self-supported workers.

Name self-supported, adult men who can take the gospel to nearby, neglected places and families.

Plan to launch or expand an extension training programme; name a co-ordinator and some trainers.

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Tea & Coffee

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#6Worshi

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Worship (6)

Matthew 4:10 “Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.”

Exodus 4:23

“And I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.”

Genesis 47:31“And Israel worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.”

Exodus 12:31

[ From the Exodus ] “During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites!

Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.”

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Worship (6)Act out a Scripture text

Can drama be a part of the time of worship?

What advantages does drama provide?

Act out the Scripture text of Luke 10:30-36, “the good Samaritan”, with six participants.

What do we learn?

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Worship (6)Group Bible discovery

What are some essential elements of worship that most churches observe

at least once a month?

• Acts 2:41-42; 20:7. • 1 Corinthians 14:26. • 1 Timothy 4:13.

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Worship

• Acts 2:41-42; 20:7. Baptise, add believers, teach, break bread.

• 1 Corinthians 14:26. Hymn, message, revelation.• 1 Timothy 4:13. Read Scripture, preach, teach.

Overall…o Praise (Testimonials, singing)o Prayerso Edification (Speaking one to another to encourage and

strengthen, 1 Cor. 14:3, 24)o Communion (Allow time to communion with Jesus, 1 Cor.

10:16)o Scripture (Reading, teaching, explaining, applying, obeying)o Fellowship (Listening to each other’s needs and joy)o Giving (Meet urgent material needs and support workers)

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Worship (6)

Have groups plan together a short, small-group worship that they will hold during a meal time.

If convenient, have the groups go to a public place and hold worship in a quiet manner.

If possible, have the groups go to a religiously hostile place and worship in a secret manner.

Group work tasks

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Worship (6)

What are the purpose and importance of baptism?

BAPTISM

• Acts 2:37-41 • Romans 6:3-8

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Worship (6)

Choose a Bible story and prepare to act out the story in front of the workshop.

Choose training program if you have not done so yet. You might use one, two or three programmes in regions having different conditions.

Practice using the training menu. Form pairs of group members. Have one tell the other an urgent need in their flock and together consult the menu till you find your need. Then let the other tell a need and consult the menu, again.

Continue planning the workshop that you will hold for workers in your ministry region.

Pray for trainers who will be able to plan with novice apostles and shepherds.

Group work tasks

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#7 Have workers start flocks

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Jesus said, “Whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you

depart. And whatever house you enter, greet it. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

First say, 'Peace be to this house!' And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if

not, it will return to you.”

Mt 10:11-13; Mk 6:10; Lk 9:4; Lk 10:5-6

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Have workers start flocks (7) Group Bible discovery

Where did the apostles evangelise and start new flocks?

• ACTS 2:46 - 47• ACTS 10:24 - 27 + 33• ACTS 16:13-15 + 40• ACTS 16:29 - 34• Romans 16:3 - 5• Colossians 4:15

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• Acts 2:46-47. Disciples were added to the congregation daily.• Acts 12:24 and 13:48-49. The Word spread, folks believed.• Acts 14:21-23. New congregations were formed and elders appointed.• Acts 16:5; 19:10 and 20. Disciples grew in numbers, whole regions

heard the Word.• Colossians 1: 6.

Group Bible discovery

What happened wherever the apostles made disciples?

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• “How can church planters avoid this unwarranted fear that newer congregations will prove to be weak or stray from the Word?”• “How can we know that each new congregation is

born with the same potential?”

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• “What does the Holy Spirit do, supernaturally, to

cause a new congregation to be born?”

• “How soon should a new congregation attempt to

reproduce, to start a ‘daughter’ flock?”

• “Why is it increasingly necessary in many places to

organize house churches?”

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Elephant flocks and rabbit flocks

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‘Rabbit’ congregations multiply much faster. Believers in an average small congregation win many times more people to Christ than do the same number of believers in an average ‘elephant’ congregation.

A congregation can be both a rabbit and an elephant, in two ways: (1) An elephant congregation can let cell groups multiply to become tiny congregations within the big one; and (2) ‘rabbit’ flocks can serve one another and celebrate together occasionally, thereby forming an elephant congregation.]

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TIPS for RABBIT-STYLED Cells

• Let believers enjoy interactive small groups.• Free up believers to obey the Lord Jesus. Keep

group leaders focused on the commands of Jesus and of the New Testament.

• Begin groups with an organizational structure and a curriculum that is entirely new and radically New Testament.

• Build new cells around new believers and their existing relationships.

• Keep groups small enough that every participant has a chance to talk if they want.

• Focus on current concerns in the cells.

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• Allow small group members to take to themselves many of the functions and privileges of traditional pastors. Allow new believers to participate from the start.

• Start small groups as a means of making disciples of seekers and new believers rather than simply as a means to numerical growth.

• Let small-group participation remain voluntary.• Organize small-group shepherds to help older believers

grow in their practice of church body life, as they receive on-going guidance from church leaders.

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• Establish ministries according to local needs.

• Start three groups at about the same time, if possible.

• Provide regular, patient coaching, in addition to training seminars.

• Keep it simple! • Pray for grace that all members are simply

serving others.

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“Common fears”

Dr. Dogmatic: Mr. Fearful Mr. Bossy Dr. Control Mr. Quality Rev. Protector

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On your maps, show where existing elephant congregations are located.

Draw arrows from the elephant congregation to places where they will start rabbit flocks.

Make plans to help your congregational members to form house-based, daughter flocks.

Plan a small group worship that you will hold together during a meal time or this evening. Ensure that each one of you has something to do in the meeting.

Pray for each other’s plans, co-workers, trainees, and new flocks.

Work group tasks

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Tea & Coffee

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#8

Bond with the people

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Encourage workers to bond with the people & adopt their customs. (8)

Jesus said, “Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves

his wages. Do not go from house to house. Whenever you enter a town and they receive you,

eat what is set before you”. Lk 10:7-8

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Group Bible discovery

ASK: “What does God think of human cultures?”

Read….

• John 4:20-23. • Galatians 2:11-16.• Acts 10:26-29.• Revelation 7:9-10.

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Bond in your evangelism … Extraction Evangelism?

Bond in your relations... Example of Ruth

Bond in your worship style ... Worship properly

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Extraction Evangelism?

What does this look like?

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Revelation 7:9-10

• Believers will take their cultural identity into the Kingdom. Their customs which are acceptable to God should be acceptable to us, also.

• All foreigners bring foreign ways into their worship. Sometimes, foreign ways fit well; often they make Christian faith look and sound very foreign. Every culture must find ways to worship that please God and allow local folks to worship Him without having to adopt foreign customs.

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"How would your express the following worship activities in your own culture?"

· Praise, worship· Prayer, intercession· Reading the Word, sharing a testimony· Confession of sins, assurance of forgiveness

· Celebrating the Lord's table· Fellowship, sharing· Offerings, giving· Baptizing, welcoming

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Encourage workers to bond with the people & adopt their customs. (8)

On your maps, identify the culture, language and ethnicity of each region and family where you plan to evangelise and start new flocks.

Make plans to start new flocks that respect the language and culture of their members.

Name workers who have the same culture, or a similar culture, as those whom they will evangelise.

Identify another organisation that has workers with the same or a similar culture as those whom you wish to evangelise, and talk about forming a partnership with it.

Pray for your co-workers that they will find ways to let the gospel flow freely in neglected people groups.

Ask the Lord of the harvest to thrust forth more workers from within neglected regions and peoples.

Work group tasks

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Tea & Coffee

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#9 Expecting Persecution “You, however, know all about my

teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch,

Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12 In fact, everyone who wants to

live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”

2 Timothy 3:10-12

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John 15:18-21 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you... If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you... because they do not know Him who sent Me." John 16:1-4 “These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues [today it might be from churches]; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them." John 17:14-18 "I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one." Galatians 5:11 "And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased."

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Jesus said, “Wherever anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave

that house or town…. go into its streets and say, 'Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this: the kingdom of God has come

near.' When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. The one who

hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

Mt 10:14, 23; Mk 6:11; Lk 9:5; Lk 10:10-11,16.

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Group Bible discovery

What skills did Aquila and Priscilla have that enabled them to train

leaders in a hostile field?

• Acts 18:1-4. • Acts 18:24-28.

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We learn: • Aquila and Priscilla combined business with the Lord’s

work. They did not earn their living by being missionaries.

• Aquila and Priscilla supported themselves, in their case with a small business, instead of working only as church planters. So doing diverts suspicion by hostile authorities.

• Aquila and Priscilla mentored (coached) Apollos quietly in the background. That is how you, too, must train new leaders where authorities are hostile.

Applications?

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We also learn….• Wise ‘tentmakers’ work at a job that allows them to

mix freely with the working class, among whom it is normally easier to reproduce churches.

• Fields with hostile authorities require church-planters to serve as bi-vocational workers.

• Pricilla, a woman, taught a man, Apollos, in a quiet way, with her husband’s approval.

• Wise mentors will try to train more than one worker at a time when possible.

Applications?

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Question:

How to avoid hostile authorities?Move operations to another town or to another social

class in the same town.Send in workers who are culturally more similar to the

local people.Meet in homes and other non-public places instead of

in religious buildings.Train workers quietly, a few at a time, instead of in big

classrooms.Send only self-supported workers who are not known to be gospel workers.

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Adopt more local cultural forms, including local religious forms.

Learn what local people need to know and teach them what the Bible says about it.

Let local folks be the real leaders from the start and you serve as a trainer in the background.

Teach local believes how to respond to persecution and trust the Holy Spirit.

Demonstrate persevering prayer.

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Describe the forms of persecution and hostility that workers experience in your fields.

If needed, plan to introduce worship forms that avoid drawing hostile attention to believers.

Lay plans to train your workers how to avoid hostility and what to do if arrested.

Discuss together how you might form partnerships to reach a culturally-distant population.

Work group tasks

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Tea & Coffee

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#10 PROCLAIMING…

but BE CREATIVE

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So Jesus’ disciples departed. They went out through the

villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. They

proclaimed that people should repent.

Mk 6:12; Lk 9:6

Proclaim the original Good News. (10)

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Group Bible discovery

“What was the original Good News?”

• Luke 24:44-48• Acts 2:22-24• Acts 2:38-39• Acts 3:18-31• Acts 5:29-32• Acts 10:38-43• Acts 13:26-31• Acts 17:1-4• Acts 17:30-34• 1 Corinthians 15:1-8

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How do we repent?

• Matthew 21:28-32 (two sons)• Luke 15:11-24 (rebellious son)• Luke 18:10-13 (two men at a temple)• Luke 23:39-43 (thief on a cross)• Acts 2:38 (repentance & baptism)• Acts 8:22 (an evil magician)• Acts 26:20 (prove with good deeds)• 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 (turn from idols)

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• Ask God to forgive you.

• Get baptised, as an expression of love and obedience to His command.

• Turn to God from any and all idols.

• Turn away from any known sins.

• Walk with Jesus moment by moment, asking Him to live through you.

Repentance

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Proclaim the original Good News. (10)

Shall we use stories, as we train and preach?

Are biblical skits and drama permitable?

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Group work tasks

Choose ways to tell the Good News so that local folks can share it with others, in turn.

Identify which materials, equipment and methods hinder the Good News flowing freely in your regions. Plan to replace those with things that are more appropriate.

Pray about how to help seekers repent in your ministry culture.

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Tea & Coffee

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#11 LOVE in ACTION

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“Jesus’ disciples cast out many demons and anointed with oil many

who were sick and healed them. “

Mark 6:13; Lk 9:6

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Concept: LOVE in ACTION (11)

• Romans 12:4-10• 1 Corinthians

12:7-11• 1 Peter 4:10-11.

Group Bible discovery

What kinds of gifts does the Spirit give to believers?

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Speaking gifts for sharing truth.

Serving gifts for helping the needy.

Teaching Exhorting Wisdom Knowledge Tongues Interpretation

Giving Leading Mercy Faith Healing Miracles

Unity of His body, in service.

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Ephesians 4:11-12

5 kinds of workers that God gives to flocks. Have someone read

• Apostles, those who are sent to start new flocks.• Prophets, those who speak to strengthen

believers.• Evangelists, those who take the Good News to

unbelievers.• Shepherds, those who take care of flocks.• Teachers, those who help believers to obey

Jesus.

5

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Group work tasks• Assess the unmet survival needs of your

population.• Which of those needs can be met by integrating

development work with starting flocks?• Identify gifted and trained individuals who can

implement such development work.• Pray and ask God to raise up workers who have

both speaking and service gifts.• Pray and ask God to make signs and wonders part

of your workers’ evangelism.

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Tea & Coffee

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#12 Listen,as you TRAIN the

disciples

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Listen to the Lord

• Our Master of eternity remarked: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear.“

• “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”

• “Consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him."

• “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;        and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! …Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good. And your soul will delight in the richest of fare.”

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The twelve apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while." … And Jesus took them, and they went away in the boat … to a desolate place by themselves. The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"

And Jesus said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”

Mk 6:30-32; Luke 9:10 and 10:17-18

Listen to your trainees

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Group Bible discovery:

What did Jesus’ trainees do after they went out to preach?

• Mark 6:30-32. • Luke 9:10. • Luke 10:17-20.

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Group Bible discovery:

What are some congregational ministries required by the NT?

• Luke 10:25-27. • Acts 20:28-32. • Ephesians 4:11-16.

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Group work tasks Discuss some current learning needs of your

shepherds and apostles? Identify which ministries required by the NT need

attention in your trainees’ congregations. Plan a series of conferences and training

seminars. How often will you hold those? Once a year?

Twice? Thrice? Pray for your trainees to learn to listen and plan

with their trainees.

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