COMMUNITY CHURCH PLANTING Intentionality Intentionality Definition Determination to

COMMUNITY CHURCH PLANTING Intentionality

Intentionality - Definition • • Determination to pursue an intended objective Thoughtfulness and deliberateness in action or decision Directed to attain goals in harmony with call and beliefs Engaging my world with purpose born from my understanding of humanity and divinity • Denotes purpose, faith, motivation, with concrete plans that direct our steps toward the consummation of the Kingdom of God • Intentionality brings together purpose, call, gifts, experience, skills

Intentionality - Leadership • Intentional congruency between the purpose, goals, functions, and activities of the community • Aligning community to ensure operational reality of strategic intent • As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. (Eph 4: 1)

Intentionality - Definition Leaders are intentional Leaders choose a direction/vision Leaders take responsibility for the consequences of their choices Leaders influence & align community intent Leaders sense their personal uniqueness Leaders understand the differences in others

Intentional Choices • • • Choice decides on Options Choice aims at a Goal Choice creates the Future Choice create Consequences Congruent choices create Intentionality

Intentionality – Decisive Philippians 3: 12 -14 • • • Definite Decisions Determined Priorities Undeterred by the Past Undeterred by Obstacles Endurance

Intentionality – Transparency Philippians 3: 12 -14 • • A journey toward perfection A journey from my past A long & difficult journey We collect our prize in heaven

Intentionality - Integrity • You should follow my example just as I follow Christ. 1 Co 11: 1 • • • Integrity – adhering to Christian principles Honesty. Being unimpaired. Complete. Wholeness. Integrity is validated by words & deeds The Baptists Disciples: Are you the One? Report what you have seen & heard. Lk 7: 22 People may doubt what you say but they will always believe what you do.

Intentionality - Integrity • Daily actions line up with heart values • May integrity & righteousness protect me, because my hope is in you. Ps 25: 21 • Speaking honestly is better. It takes a lot of stress out of our lives. “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember what you said. ” Mark Twain • “The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out. ” Pr 10: 9

Intentionality - Integrity • • Integrity the highest value in community Does not need rules Refuses to Compromise Is the essence of everything successful Will never deceive If you have integrity nothing else matters If you don’t have integrity nothing else matters. It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Integrity – Story of Job God commends Job’s character, he is: Blameless Upright Fears God Shuns Evil Job lost His: Home Kids Wealth Health But he never gave up on God

Integrity – Story of Job’s wife asked, "Why do you still trust God? Why don't you curse him and die? “ Job replied, "Don't talk like a fool! If we accept blessings from God, we must accept trouble as well. " In all that happened, Job never once said anything against God. Job 2: 9 -10 Job never gave up on God Calamity is the test of integrity

Intentionality • Intentionality brings together call, purpose, spiritual gifts, skills, life experience • Intentionality harmonises planning, execution, monitoring & redirection • Intentionality develops plans, processes, and strategies • Intentionality are the links in the chain of successful Christian Leadership

Intentional Congruence • Personal & Community goals should be so inline as to be mutually beneficial to one another • Working towards any one of your goals should help accomplish some or all of the others • Congruence implies agreement, harmony, conformity with all my decisions & actions

Intentionality • Intentionality is about developing community who can use processes & strategies to implement projects & changes • Culture of the Community is the Key to Successful Implementation • Successful implementation requires us to analyse & understand the tasks, our people, their culture, and the structures within which they operate

Vision Statement Community Church Planting desires to populate all communities with spiritually maturing churches

Mission Statement Community Church Planting desires to populate all communities with spiritually maturing churches by mobilizing disciples to multiply disciples, pastors to multiply pastors, churches to multiply churches, and seminaries to graduate multiplying church planter trainers

Intentionality - Planning is a fundamental property of intelligent behaviour

Intentionality - Planning Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him…Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to appose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? (Lk 14: 28, 29, 31)

Intentionality - Planning • “By wisdom is a house built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures… for waging war you need guidance, and for victory many advisors” Pr 24: 5, 6 • Jesus headed a research team as he traveled throughout the Galilean towns and villages Mt 9: 35 -38 • God sent Gideon and Purah as researchers into the Midianite camp the night before the battle to scout and assess the circumstances of their enemy Jdg 7

Intentionality - Planning • “Every prudent man acts out of knowledge… a prudent man gives thought to his steps. ” (Pr 13: 16; 14: 15) • Our primary struggle in church planting is not going to be “… against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces in the heavenly realms. ” (Eph 6: 12) • “To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the reply of the tongue. . . Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. ” (Pr 16: 1, 2)

Intentionality – Plan with a Recipe • • Baking we follow proven recipes Vision = Attractive Edible Cake = Ingredients + Utensils + Recipe CCP = Ingredients + Equipment + Recipe Ingredients = Discipleship & Training Equipment = Trainers, Materials, Bibles Recipe = Proven Plan & Process to follow

Intentionality -Holistic Models • Church Planting & Training-in-ministry • Disciples Training precedes church planting • Mobilise Existing Churches • Integrated/Holistic verse Fragmented Approach

Intentionality – Plan with a Recipe Four CCP Models • • Training Centre Church Planting Church-Based Church Planting Disciple Church Planting Seminary Church Planting (TCP) (C/B-CP) (DCP) (SCP)

Training Centre Model CP CP Trainer CP CP

Trainer TCP Coordinator Trainer

Church-Based Church Planting Daughter Church Mother Church Daughter Church

Intentionality - Planning • CCP Need – Unreached Peoples, New Churches, Leadership, Theological Education Solution: – Rural Training Centres (CCP Centres) – Church Planting Instruction - Omega – Pastoral Training – CCP Pastoral Training – Mobilising Members – Chronological Training – Church Planting Process/Recipe

Intentionality - Goals • • Cast Vision & Mobilize Churches Identify Trainers Target People Groups, Regions Select Church Sites Select Student Pastors & Train Gather Members & Disciples Establish multiplying leaders, members & churches

Intentionality – CCP Process Ø Ø Ø Ø CCP Training Centre Full Time Trainer 15 Villages 15 People of Peace 15 Church Planter Pastors Who plant and pastor 15 New Churches 1 st Generation Churches plant 2 daughter churches 1 st Generation Pastor train 2 nd Generation Pastors Standards Ø Embed CCP DNA in local church

Intentionality - Planning • • • Identify Goals & Objectives Set Priorities Formulate Strategies to Achieve Goals Gather & Arrange Resources Sequence, Direct, & Monitor Steps

Plan On Setting Goals • • • One Trainer 15 1 st Generation Pastors & Churches 30 2 nd Generation Pastors & Churches 60 3 rd Generation Pastors & Churches 120 4 th Generation Pastors & Churches Potential Phase 1: 225 Churches Per Trainer

Intentionality - Strategies • • • Entrance Strategy Gospel Strategy Discipleship Strategy Training Strategy Multiplication Strategy

Field One ENTRANCE STRATEGY Field Two GOSPEL STRATEGY Multiplication Strategy TRAINING STRATEGY Field Four DISCIPLESHIP STRATEGY Field Three

Field One ENTRANCE STRATEGY Field Two GOSPEL STRATEGY Month 1 Formalise Entry Strategy Month 7 to 46 Implement Pastoral Training Strategy Multiplication Strategy TRAINING STRATEGY Field Four Month 2 to 4 Implement Gospel Strategy Month 3 to 6 Implement a Discipleship Strategy DISCIPLESHIP STRATEGY Field Three

Intentionality - CCP Process • Supervision, mentoring • Reflecting & Redirecting Projects Plans, Annual Plans, Quarterly To Do Lists • 40 Month Training Curriculum • Annual Training Curriculum • Monthly & Weekly Program • Evaluation, VCP Spiritual Health Barometer • Partnerships • Prayer

Field One ENTRANCE STRATEGY • Planning • Target Territory • People Group • Research • Mapping • Preliminary Training • Prayer • CCP Process

Field Two GOSPEL STRATEGY • Training Centre • People & Households of Peace • Tell My Story • Tell God’s Story • Roman Road • Four Essentials of Evangelism • Camel Method

Field Three DISCILESHIP STRATEGY • Gather & Disciple Members • Seven Commands of Christ • Handy Hand Ecclesiology • Baptism • Lord’s Supper • Priesthood of all Believers • Establish 1 st & 2 nd Generation Churches • Chronological Bible Teaching • Spiritual Health Barometer

Field Four TRAINING STRATEGY • Multiply Pastors, Elders, Deacons, & Sunday School Teachers • 2 Timothy 2: 2 Kingdom Growth Principles • Pastoral Graduation • Church Recognition • Target New Fields • Sending out missionaries

Training Program Outline • • OMEGA CCP Pastoral Training Course CCP Manual Chronological Bible Teaching Denominational Training Evangelism Training Camel Training Mobilizing Members Total Hours: 127 hours 370 hours 10 hours 20 hours 17 hours 10 hours 4 hours 568 hours

Mobilising Disciples Small Groups • • • Eight Week Commitment Week 1 My Story Week 2 God’s Story Week 3 Assurance of Salvation Week 4 Praying for yourself & others Week 5 Daily Devotions Week 6 The Church Week 7 Our Heavenly Father Week 8 Self Feeding

Plan For Quality • • “Healthy disciples lead to healthy churches” Emphasis on discipleship and in-field training Spiritual barometer used to gauge health Accountability through mentoring and CCP Church Register • High accountability and standards finding favor with supporters & potential donors

Lone Ranger Attitude Fishers of Men We Picture This

Build Kingdom Partnerships Fishers of Men God Pictures This

Intentionality - Partnerships • • • Value Partnerships Build Relationships Search For Synergy Acknowledgement Plan Together Work Together

KEY TO PARTNERSHIPS • VISION • VALUES • STRATEGY • TRANSPARENCY • COMMUNICATION