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Planting a Church That Multiplies
Don't build it and wait for them to come. Start groups, and let the church grow out of them.
You already know the borrowed plan — find a building, gather a launch team, pick an opening Sunday, and wait. This class is about the other way: start where the harvest is, let the church be born out of the groups, and plant the second before the first is finished.
Ten short chapters. Prerequisite: Groups That Start Groups.
Chapters
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- Build it and they won't comeThe attractional trap.
- Start where the harvest isNot where the building is.
- Your first group is not a launch teamIt is the church, already.
- Let the church be born out of the groupsActs 2 order, not ours.
- When does a group become a church?The questions your church must answer.
- Elders come later, and from insideTitus 1:5, in that order.
- Money, buildings and borrowed modelsWhat outside funding installs.
- The founder's temptationStaying too long.
- Count generations, not seatsA different scoreboard.
- Plant the second before the first is finishedOr you will never plant again.
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