Winning the World

Ses s i on 3: Al ternat i ve Forms of Sp i r i tua l i t y and Chur ch 51

b. Need for hundreds of thousands of pastors which cannot be produced in traditional seminary fashion, p. 38

4. In one of the Indian CPMs, missionaries opted for a “non traditional approach” offering short segments of training ranging from a few weeks to a few months at a time, coupled with agricultural and rural health education with biblical messages of evangelism and church planting, p. 40.

5. Among the Kui people, the real advance took place when the Kui themselves began the church planting effort, pp. 42-43.

6. CPMs among the Bhojpuri-speaking people, persecution and martyrdom fueled innovation in strategy (a two-by two approach), and the person of peace strategy.

a. No individualized work but in terms of teams of two

b. Bonding with a person of peace, discipling them, and then allowing that person to become the leader of the church in his household and community, p. 45

7. Breathtaking numbers of conversions when CPM spread through a homogenous unit, people of the same ethnic, linguistic, and cultural background (cf. pp. 46-47)

8. Innovative ways of dealing with illiterate populations: e.g., listening to cassette tapes of Scripture and asking the question, “How can I obey Christ in this situation?”, p. 47