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We desire to join God in church planting movements locally and globally by applying church planting principles in our ministries. The following
principles are expressed by David Garrison from his global reserach in his book, Church Planing Movements:
Ten Universal Elements in Every Church Planting Movement
- Extraordinary Prayer
- Abundant Evangelism
- Intentional Planting of Reproducing Churches
- The Authority of God’s Word
- Local Leadership (Indigenous Leaders)
- Lay Leadership (Unpaid Volunteer Leaders)
- House Churches
- Churches Planting Churches
- Rapid Reproduction
- Healthy Churches (Do they glorify God?)
Ten Commandments for Church Planting Movements
- Immerse your community in prayer.
- Saturate your community with the gospel.
- Cling to God’s Word
- Fight against foreign dependency.
- Eliminate all non-reproducible elements.
- Live the vision that you wish to fulfill.
- Build reproduction into every believer and church.
- Train all believers to evangelize, disciple and plant churches.
- Model, assist, watch and leave.
- Discover what God is doing and join Him.
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