Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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c. A church planter would stay behind and mentor and lead these emerging leaders, grounding them in doctrines and practices to ensure the health of house churches. 7. “At the core of the Yanyin movement was a house church model that combined lay leadership development, mutual accountability, biblical authority and rapid reproducibility,” p. 61.

8. The POUCH model employed by the Strategy Coordinator

a. P - Participative Bible study and worship

b. O - Obedience as the mark of success for every believer and church

c. U - unpaid and multiple leaders in each church

d. C – Cell groups of 10-20 believers meeting in

e. H - Homes or storefronts as the venue for church and body life

9. Churches reproduced when they reached a predetermined size, met a least twice a week, some even every day, with leadership development built into the very structure of the church life , p. 62.

C. Lessons learned from the Yanyin Church Planting Movement, pp. 63-64

1. Prayer as vital for both reach and unreached Yanyin people

2. Model as well as teach all things

3. Emphasize application not knowledge

4. Include feedback loops to ensure follow up of new believers

5. Everything had to be reproducible by Yanyin people

6. Locally produced hymns and praise songs to spread the faith

7. High marks for new converts and new fruit