Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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6. Significant numbers given (without clear reference to what a church in a CPM actually looks like – to come later in his analysis), e.g., pp. 16-17 7. “Strategy Coordinators”: a “missionary who takes responsibility for developing and implementing a compre hensive strategy – one that would partner with the whole body of Christ – to bring an entire people group to faith in Jesus Christ,” p. 17 8. “People Group”: “a social grouping sharing a common language and sense of ethnic identity, sometimes referred to as an ethnolinguistic people group,” pp. 17-18. 10. Summary of the method of the book, p. 19 (i.e., explore a number of CPMs both near and far, describe common characteristics of them, address frequently raised questions, biblically evaluate them, and finally ask God how we can be involved) B. Definition of Church Planting Movements: five distinct features (please note his sociological description; it is not a theological or biblical one ) “A CPM is a rapid multiplication of indigenous churches planting churches that sweeps through a people group or population segment,” p. 21 ( a five-part definition ) 1. A CPM reproduces rapidly (within a short period of time, newly planted churches are already planting new churches, “faster than you think possible”), p. 21. 2. A CPM is multiplication (they do not simply add new churches, instead they multiply them, akin to the multiplication of the loaves and fish), p. 22. 9. “Unreached people group”: “a people group that has yet to be presented with the gospel of Jesus Christ,” p. 18

3. A CPM is indigenous (meaning “generated from within as opposed to started by outsiders), p. 22.