v.4.0
A wholistic church planting and mission strategy diagnostic framework.
Diagnostics and Training Tools
Phase 4: Reproducing Church Formation
Key: The clearest path to go from a small group to the formation of biblical, healthy, reproducing Church. This includes:
-A biblical understanding of church
-Diagnostics to identify which aspects are missing
-Biblical leadership
-Tools to set up reproducing leadership development
-Tools for deeper discipleship
For more information, please click the "Church Formation" Button.
Phase 1: Entry
Key: How to have sustained access to your target people group. This includes:
-Platform
-Presence
-Finding Persons of Peace
For more information, please click the "Entry" Button.
Phase 2: Reproducing Evangelism
Key: En Masse, contextualized, biblical evangelism that can be easily reproduced and clearly communicated among and by believers your target people group. This includes:
-EV Tools
-EV Training
-EV done by local and near culture believers
-EV done and modeled by the "outsiders"
For more information, please click the "Evangelism" Button.
Phase 3: Reproducing Discipleship
Key: En Masse, contextualized, biblical discipleship that can be easily reproduced by local believers as they make disciples who make disciples. This includes:
-1-on-1 Discipleship Tools
-Small Group Discipleship Training
-Healthy Disciple Diagnostics
-Discipleship done and modeled by the "outsiders"
For more information, please click the "Discipleship" Button.
Phase 6: Reproducing Adolescent Church
Key: Characterized by zealousness, lack of experience, copious activity, relative immaturity and messiness, the church in this phase needs to continue to grow deeper and focus on unity as it multiplies. This phase includes:
-Healthy Church Diagnostics
-Increasingly diverse discipleship tools
-Increased missions training
For more information, please click the "Adolescent Church" Button.
Phase 7: Reproducing Mature Church
Key: Characterized by stability, depth of experience, and often times complex church structures, depth of resources and sometimes complacency, the church in this phase needs to be careful to not depend on itself or tradition as it casts vision to become highly missional churches.
This phase includes:
-Increasingly advanced leadership development
-Vision Casting resources
-More robust missions tools
For more information, please click the "Mature Church" Button.
Phase 5: Reproducing Infant Church
Key: Characterized by relative immaturity and instability, the church in this phase needs to grow deeper as it grows wider. This phase includes:
-Steps needed to grow from this phase to the next.
-Tools needed during this phase for the church to be best set up for healthy reproduction.
-Tools for getting the local church started in missions.
-The Role of "outsiders workers" becomes catalytic.
For more information, please click the "Infant Church" Button.
Phase 8: Reproducing Sending Church
Key: Characterized by having missions as the center of every activity of the church and is able to send out missionaries en masse. This phase includes:
--Needs and "How to's" of selecting, sending and supporting long-term missionaries
-Tools to maintain a culture of missions in the church.
-Resources for helping train others to enter Phase 1!
For more information, please click the "Sending Church" Button.
