Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

284 • P LANTING C HURCHES AMONG THE C ITY ’ S P OOR : V OLUME 2

honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

A. Garrison on India and China, pp. 34-64

1. The essential nature of the Church Planting Movement in India begins with a restoration of the New Testament understanding of church as opposed to the contemporary view of church as a building , pp. 36-37. 2. Indian movements based on the “potent combination” of biblical teaching, lay leadership, and house church accommodations steering clear of energy sapping dependency on foreign finances, p. 37

3. Equipping for Indian CPMs occurs in the environment of house churches, not in seminaries, p. 38.

a. The 222 formula: 2 Tim. 2.2, equipping disciples to plant multiplying churches by multiplying leadership

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

4. Garrison’s research as “reverse engineering”: “It seeks to understand these movements by beginning at the end, with an actual Church Planting Movement. Then it reverse engineers the movement, dismantling its component parts, analyzing how it was constructed and how it works. Done properly, reverse engineering can reveal volumes about the Creator’s designs, desires, and methods of operation,” p. 11.

5. Significant questions in the research, p.11

a. See God transforming hundreds of thousands of lives in CPMs

b. Understand how God is at work in accomplishing this transformation

c. Learning how he would have us participate in CPMs