CFTROU 0008: Five Free Strategies for Church Growth That Will Cost You Your Life.
We find these five strategies in the book of Acts: devotion to prayer, abundant seed sowing, making disciples that make disciples, planting churches, and identifying and training new leaders. These 5 free strategies don’t cost any money, but may cost you your life. Learn how you can implement them in your church today.
Key Points:
- Imitate what the disciples were doing in the book of Acts.
- Find out where these strategies come from in the book of Acts.
- Learn more about the cycle of disciples training disciples and leaders training leaders.
- Remember that it was common, ordinary men who launched the gospel movement.
- Understand how these strategies and principles are biblical and universal.
- Discover the practicality of implementing these strategies in the local church.
- Embrace a tool to train people to share the gospel that facilitates rapid obedience.
- Learn alternatives to the “launch large” church planting strategy.
- Experiment with the resources and people that you have to plant new churches.
- Take advantage of economies of scale by partnering with a larger church.
- Look for leaders in our churches, train them, and release them be bivocational church planters.
- Establish internships and residency programs to train new leaders.
- The key is to have more gospel conversations and more gospel congregations.
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Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Turning Everyday Conversations into Gospel Conversations
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