The Evangel Dean Basic Training Resource Handbook

S EMINARS • 65

S EMINAR 6 Assessment and Church Planters For/From the Urban Poor Dr. Hank Voss

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ~ James 2.5

Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

~ Galatians 2.10

Far from us, say the Christians, be any man possessed of any culture, or wisdom or judgment; their aim is to convince only worthless and contemptible people, idiots, slaves, poor women and children. . . . They would not dare to address an audience of intelligent men. . . but if they see a group of young people or slaves or rough folk, there they push themselves in and seek to win the admiration of the crowd.

~ Celsus, 3rd century AD

I. The “A” in the ABCs: Church Planter Assessments

A. Biblical foundations for church planter assessment

1. Qualifications for church leaders

a. Church leader qualifications (1 Tim. 3.6; cf. 3.1−13)

b. Church planter qualifications (Titus 1.5; cf. 1.5−11)

2. Paul’s warning to the Ephesian church leaders (Acts 20.28−31)

3. Importance of counting the cost (Luke 14.26-33)