Church PLANT Manual

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Christ’s Kingdom. This handbook represents the text that guides the dialogues among the Seminar’s participants. These spirited and challenging sessions are designed to confront the learners with the call of our Lord to be and to make disciples, to embrace a life lived for Christ and his church, and to join forces with World Impact to see revival come to the inner cities of America and the world. Let this Vision for Discipleship Seminar guidebook help you discover the process and mindset to share your life with others in such a way that real fruit will be borne for Christ—fruit that lasts. Sacred Roots: A Primer on Retrieving the Great Tradition The Christian faith is anchored on the person and work of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, whose incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection forever changed the world. Between the years 100 and 500 C.E. those who believed in him grew from a small persecuted minority to a strong aggressive movement reaching far beyond the bounds of the Roman empire. The roots this era produced gave us our canon (the Scriptures), our worship, and our conviction (the major creeds of the Church, and the central tenets of the Faith, especially regarding the doctrine of the Trinity and Christ). This book suggests how we can renew our contemporary faith again, by rediscovering these roots, our Sacred Roots, by retrieving the Great Tradition of the Church that launched the Christian revolution.