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MODULE 7: CHURCH GROWTH
From Discipleship to Discipling Movements


1. CHURCH MODELS
    DISCIPLING MOVEMENTS (Power-point)
   
Readings: BIBLICAL THEOLOGY FOR POOR PEOPLES' CHURCHES
                      THE MIDDLE YEARS: CHRISTIAN NURTURE
                     CHURCH OF THE POOR 
2. WORK PATTERNS IN URBAN POOR MOVEMENTS (Power-point)
   
a. 
80 STEPS IN A CHURCHPLANT
b. HESSELGRAVE'S CHURCHPLANTING CYCLE
   b.  PHILIPPINE CHURCHPLANTING WORK PLAN

   c.  WORK PLAN FOR A CHURCHPLANT
3. FROM CHURCHES TO MOVEMENTS
   
Readings: FROM CHURCHES TO MOVEMENTS
                WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?
4. BREAKING PROPERTY BARRIERS
    CASH FLOWS IN A HOLISTIC URBAN CHURCH PLANT (Power-point)
6. WORSHIP
7.  WESTERN INNER CITY MODELS
        Readings:
            Youth Congregation in Pico Union
            Inner City Growth in the UK   

Learning Outcomes

1. Skill: Trainees will evaluate their ministry experiences in each of the seven skill areas of developing a poor people's church or discipling movement, relating these to the four seasons of growth.
2. Skill: Trainees will develop a work plan for evangelism, and one of the seven skill areas.
3. Understanding: Trainees will be able to identify the differences between a mindset and styles of developing a ministry and initiating a movement.
4. Skill: Trainees will identify a progression of funding needs and resources for an urban poor ministry they are familiar with.
5. Skill: Trainees will be able to differentiate the nature of urban poor worship patterns and middle class patterns.

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Work Plan Churchplant
Church Models
Church Growth
Cash Flows
Pastoring the Poor

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