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This course examines the theological foundations and place of church planting in fulfilling the Great Commission. The course then surveys methods, models, strategies and particular challenges of planting and establishing indigenous churches in intercultural, missionary settings.
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Many church planters are enthusiastic about their calling and the challenge of launching into such an exciting endeavor. But sometimes they have little patience for defining goals or answering fundamental questions about the nature of the task. But not doing so is like setting out to build a house without blueprints. In the introductory lecture of the course Craig Ott defines terms, speaks about the nature of the church and explains what it means to plant a church.
Church planting is more than a practical necessity. It is a biblical mandate! And yet the theological reflection on the rationale for church planting has often been rather shallow. Mission practice and theology have grown apart. So what are the primary reasons biblical reasons for church planting? Though there is no explicit command in the Bible to go and plant churches, biblical record leaves no mistake that church planting is essential to God's salvation purposes and the fulfillment of the Great Commission. God is a missionary God, and we have the privilege of participating with Him.
Though the church planter himself is an essential component of the church plant, the planter's personal and spiritual life hasn't received adequate attention yet.
But church planters are just likely to fall short because of personal inadequacies or an inability to work on a team as they are because of a flawed strategy. This lecture is primarily devoted to characteristics of effective church planters and three types of church planters.
Just as the church planting team must decide which basic church-planting approach best fits the context and mission, the best structure of the church should also be selected. Every kingdom community has a unique calling and form, but understanding certain basic designs can serve as a starting point for contextualizing church forms and functions. In this lecture Craig Ott compares traditional western churches with house and cell-celebtration churches. What are the possible strengths and weaknesses of different church structures? What challenges do they have to face? In which context do they tend to be most effective for God's kingdom?
In this lecture you will survey a variety of approaches to church planting, beginning with pioneer church planting, where few if any churches already exist in the area. Then you will examine approaches to reproducing churches. These two categories, pioneering and reproducing, roughly correspond to what we find in the New Testament. In conclusion Craig Ott will describe strategies for multiple church plants in a region. Each of these approaches can be appropriate and effective under the right circumstances.
What are some of the factors that seem to contribute to more rapid planting of churches? In this lecture Craig Ott:
Much like human life, church plants progress through reasonably predictable developmental phases. These phases reflect a fluid process rather than being clearly defined separate steps. Yet understanding the developmental phases and their characteristics is important to identifying the particulate needs, challenges and opportunities that face a church plant. Failure to give attention to the changing needs of a church plant as it develops can lead to unnecessary difficulties of stagnation. In this lecture Craig Ott talks about the phases through which a church plant progresses: preparing, launching, establishing, structuring and reproducing.
Successful church planting always requires a basic understanding of the people that are being reached. So there are several good reasons to engage in ethnographic and demographic study which allow the researcher to focus on a more specific ministry focus group. The research findings will also help to come up with a strategy for evangelism and church planting that is suited to the focus people. In this lecture Craig Ott talks about good planning, different types of helpful information, determining the focus group and discerning the opportunities.
Church planting is that ministry which, through evangelism and discipleship, establishes multiplying kingdom communities of believers in Jesus Christ who are committed to fulfilling biblical purposes under local spiritual leadership. This definition underlines the fact that evangelism and discipleship are the heart of church planting. If you are planting a new church, you want to reach new people for Christ and expand God's kingdom and also impact the community as salt and light. In this lecture Craig Ott will focus only on those aspects of evangelism and discipleship which interrelate with church planting.
It is one thing to be concerned about planting more churches and reaching new people, but we also should be concerned about the kind of churches we plant if we want them to be kingdom communities. So in this lecture Craig Ott talks about planting healthy, reproducing churches. This information will be helpful if you are a church planter or are involved in the existing church. He talks about six guidelines for healthy church development. You will learn about the indicators of Church Health.
Good stewardship of life and resources will be part of the DNA of any healthy church-planting movement. Should a church receive a lot of outside assistance? Where the resources should come from? What are some biblical principles for sharing resources? In this lecture Craig Ott talks about indigenous movement, six ways outside funding can harm or help a church plant and how to navigate two things that are predominant in church planting these days, short-term teams and partnership with different organizations.
Developing local leaders is going to be a real key to developing strong and reproducing churches. So with time the church planter will need to focus attention increasingly on developing those persons who will become the future leaders and missionaries of the church. This is not a course on leadership, that is why you will learn some basic ideas and principles to follow. In this lecture Craig Ott shares methods for equipping leaders and workers in the local church, emphasizes the factors that are essential in identifying potential leaders, talks about different levels of lay mobilization, compares apprenticeship with school model and shares some examples from his personal experience.
In conclusion of the course Craig Ott tells "The Parable of the Apple Trees". If you want to grow apples and feed more people, don't merely grow more apples, bigger apples and sweeter apples; rather plant more apple trees that in turn can reproduce yet more apple trees to grow exponentially more fruit. And if you want to feed a spiritually hungry world, don't just grow one big church, grow a movement. And this happens when ordinary churches release people to start new churches.
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