Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

P ART II: C HURCH P LANTING T OOLKIT • 293

1. A movement built on the importance of prayer, p. 71

2. Training of indigenous leaders (“where there were RLTPs [indigenous training], church planting always followed, p. 71

3. Churches shared the tradition of a sevenfold structure, the “seven-member central committee” of the church (i.e., a worship leader, a Bible teacher, a men’s minister, a women’s minister, a youth minister, an outreach minister, and a literacy teacher), p. 73 4. Tradition used as an evangelistic invitation for church planting in unreached village (cf. “Do you have a Baptist church in your village?” If they respond predictably with, ‘What is a Baptist church?’ she replies, ‘Next week we will come and tell you about it,’” p. 73 C. Across southeast Asia: hundreds of new churches [i.e., house churches of 10-30 members] despite severe government persecution, p. 74 1. POUCH churches as a result of training existing house church networks with more effective ways to survive and multiply (Garrison’s first word about church mobilization and renewal?), p. 75

2. Opposition and advance of the Gospel spread simultaneously and side-by-side, p. 75

a. Crisis reached at the point of 30 members , p. 75

b. 30 as the tipping point of public irritation and recognition !

c. Power of training, prayer, persecution, and smallness to create a dynamism and renewal, p. 76

D. Singapore: explosion of home-cell mega-churches, “the nature of those churches changed radically from traditional congregation based worship to sprawling home-based cell groups,” p. 77

1. Notice the wealth demographics of evangelicalism in Singapore, cf. p.78