Winning the World

62 Wi nn i ng the Wor l d: Fac i l i tat i ng Urban Chur ch P l ant i ng Movement s

Conclusion and Review of the Major Concepts of Session Three

• Cyprian: “If the church is not your Mother, then God cannot be your Father.” • The Lord can use whatever model or structure of church he desires to strengthen his church and advance his Kingdom throughout the earth. • All credible alternative forms of church and spirituality take into account both the biblical testimony on the nature of the church as well as the historic orthodox formulations of that testimony: we are not free to draft conceptions of church out of sync with Scripture and the Great Tradition.