On This Rock - A Church Planting Sampler

Table of Contents

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Church Planting Overview . . . . . . . . . . 11 World Impact’s Strategy for Church Planting . . . . . . . 13 Preface: How to Use This Guidebook . . . . . . . . . 17 Seeing the Big Picture (graphic) . . . . . . . . . . 29 Session 1: Seeing the Big Picture – Themes and Objectives . . . 30 What Is a Church? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Church Planting Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Session 2: Prepare – Themes and Objectives . . . . . . . 44 Overview of Exercise Phases for World Impact’s Evangel School of Urban Church Planting . . . 46 Cross-Cultural Church Planting Principles . . . . . . . . 48 Theology of Culture and the Poor . . . . . . . . 49 On World Impact’s “Empowering the Urban Poor” . . . . . 51 Our Distinctive: Advancing the Kingdom among the Urban Poor . . 57 Interaction of Class, Culture, and Race . . . . . . . . 65 Targeting Unreached Groups in Churched Neighborhoods . . . 66 The SIAFU Network – Assembling God’s Warriors: Toward a Strategy to Win the City. . . . . . . . . . 67