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How to P.L.A.N.T. a church


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EVANGELIZE

PREPARE

  • Form a church-plant team
  • Pray
  • Select a target area and population
  • Do demographic and ethnographic studies

LAUNCH

  • Recruit and train volunteers
  • Conduct evangelistic events and door-to-door evangelism
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EQUIP

ASSEMBLE

  • Form cell groups, Bible studies, etc. to follow-up new believers, to continue evangelism, and to identify and train emerging leaders.
  • Announce the birth of a new church to the neighborhood and meet regularly for public worship, instruction and fellowship

NURTURE

  • Develop individual and group discipleship
  • Fill key roles in the church; identify and use spiritual gifts

EMPOWER

TRANSITION

  • Transfer leadership to indigenous leaders so they become self-governing, self-supporting and self-reproducing (appoint elders and pastors)
  • Finalize decisions about denominational or other affiliations
  • Commission the church
  • Foster association with World Impact and other urban churches for fellowship, support and mission ministry.
     
 
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