Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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2. Joint venture with the government: the openness of the people because the Strategy Coordinator had gone directly to the people , Garrison, p. 109 3. People group strategy: “The earliest church planters deliberately aimed at stimulating a Kazakh movement. The results have been impressive. Kazakhs today feel that they own the movement. Consequently, momentum is shifting from foreign workers to national leaders,” Garrison, p. 109-110.

E. A pseudonymous movement, Jedidistan: “the largest CPM in the history of Christian missions to Muslims,” Garrison, p. 110

1. Limited number of missionaries allowed to work, Jedidi NT published, experimentation with new forms of church contextualized to the “Muslim worldview,” Garrison, p. 111

2. Converts still referred to themselves as “Muslims”: the case in favor and against “insider movements” today

3. The story of Sharif: Garrison, p. 111-116

a. Ostracism and persecution from community and family, pp. 113-114

b. Courage in the face of brutal cruelty, p. 115

c. Compelling testimony, ibid .

d. Extraordinary fruitfulness: 1991, Bilal and Sharif led their first Muslim family to Christ, and started the first church of Muslim background believers. Over the next decade, they would seek nearly 4,000 churches planted and more than 150,000 Muslims come to Christ , Garrison, p. 115.

F. Notice the work between Sharif and the Strategy Coordinator (cross-cultural missionary), Garrison, p. 116

1. SC provided Sharif with research that allowed the CPM to spread, and SC with how to use Qur’an in conversation with Muslims about Jesus and the NT, Garrison, p. 116

2. Great impact of Sharif’s work ten years later in the Jedidi CPM, Garrison, p. 117-122