Church-Planting Strategy

1. Church-Planting Strategy Session IX >> SOILS and BREED 24:14 Original Teaching by Steve Smith

2. Overview • Foundations • Macro Strategy – Acts Study • Micro Strategy – Sending of the 12 & 70 • Reproducing discipleship – Matt 28:18-20 • Model House Church

3. Implementation • Developing National Partners • Developing Leaders • BREED – Assessing a Movement • SOILS – How to Spend Your Time • Simple Church – Healthy Church Life

4. Implementation SEEDS in SOILSBREEDCPMs • SEEDS – How to plant a movement • SOILS – Who to invest in • BREED – What every movement needs to reproduce • CPM – Our end goal

5. SEEDS - How to plant a CPM • Sow Broadly (to the lost and the saved) • Luke 8, parable of the 4 soils • Encounter People of Peace • Matt 9:36-10:15; Luke 10:1-20 • Equip Reproducers • Matt 28:19-20; 2 Tim 2:2 • Develop Churches • Acts 2:42-47 • Strengthen Leaders • 1 Timothy 3; Titus

6. Assessment • Generational growth is critical to knowing how to reach a target group. • Problems of 2nd & 4th generation • Your yearly goal: • Invest in the most critical persons (SOILS) and highest value activities (BREED) that will move you forward 1-2 steps along the continuum. • What are the most critical elements? • Develop 6-12 month action plans to do this.

7. CPM Continuum • Unsure – unsure of how to proceed toward CPM or no plan • Moving purposefully 0 to 1 – trying to consistently establish 1st generation believers & churches • Moving purposefully 1 to 2 – Consistent 1st & some 2nd gen churches • Near CPM - consistent 2nd, some 3rd gen churches • Beginning CPM - consistent 3rd gen churches, some 4th • Sustained CPM - consistent 4th generation churches; multiple streams are started

8. SOILS – Where to Invest • Spirit – fervent prayer • Outsiders – to find persons of peace • Insiders – cast vision and train trainers • Leaders – multiply fruitful leaders • Segments – reach unreached segments

9. SOILS of the CPM Continuum – whom to relate to at each stage Few/no Target Group Christians YOUR SITUATION Many willing Target Group Christians Many Multiplying Target Group Churches Progress from lostness toward sustained church planting movements Evaluate your situation and choose high value activities that move you across the continuum • Your team • Cast vision and train far & near culture partners • Much evangelism that leads to planting • Including development of appropriate EV materials/methods • Find breakthrough Persons of Peace (Luke 10) especially via “PUSHES” • Move new converts to category below • Start as many streams as possible Spend the appropriate percentage of ministry time on what is needed to move across the continuum Outsiders - looking for POPs • Cast vision to target group believers to become willing partners • Training Trainers until multiple generations exist • Help partners to do the same Insiders – casting vision & training willing partners YOUR ATIVITIES Spirit - Fervent Prayer Always Mid-level trainings. Top-level leader mentoring. Of fruitful people (proven worth) • Develop a network of frequent, fervent pray-ers • Including your and your team • Expand it to your national colleagues Leaders – to sustain CPM • Look for ways the CPM is naturally crossing over • Via same, near or far culture partners • Looking for people of peace through special PUSHES • Until the entire target group is saturated Segments – getting to new lost segments

10. The CPM Continuum Few/no Target Group Christians Many willing Target Group Christians Many Multiplying Target Group Churches Outsiders - looking for POPs Because God is already at work we can move across the continuum quickly! Insiders – casting vision & training willing partners YOUR ATIVITIES Spirit - Fervent Prayer Always Most M’s move 1-2 steps at a time across the continuum . . . Celebrate each step forward! Leaders – to sustain CPM Segments – getting to new lost segments

11. BREED – What a CPM Needs Big Vision Reproducing methods Expectations and accountability Equipping leaders Death & Spiritual Breakthrough – the spiritual triggering event.

12. Big Vision Reprodu- cing Methods Expect- ations Equip Leaders Death Reprodu- ing Methods Expect- ations Equip Leaders Death Big Vision Death Equip Leaders Expect- ations Big Vision Reprodu- ing Methods Equip Leaders Death Big Vision Reprodu- ing Methods Expect- ations Death Big Vision Expect- ations Reprodu- ing Methods Equip Leaders How to B.R.E.E.D. Sustained CPMs Workgroups: What happens if you leave out an element???

13. Big Vision Reprodu- cing Methods Expect- ations Equip Leaders Death Reprodu- ing Methods Expect- ations Equip Leaders Death Big Vision Death Equip Leaders Expect- ations Big Vision Reprodu- ing Methods Equip Leaders Death Big Vision Reprodu- ing Methods Expect- ations Death Big Vision Expect- ations Reprodu- ing Methods Equip Leaders How to B.R.E.E.D. Sustained CPMs Sustained CPMs CONFUSION & No Saturation Despair / Dependence Incremental Growth Stalled CPM No Real Start

14. What would you do if… • There were 3rd generation churches planted and rapid growth • You launched a new church plant • You found a few hungry local believers and led a person of peace to the Lord • There are several POPs and national partners who are seeing people saved and groups established • There was 4th generation churches, widespread fruit, but lots of pastoral problems • There were several people coming to Christ, but you were having a difficult time following up