Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 3 | FOCUS ON REPRODUCTION: CHURCH GROWTH / 427

c. Investing in facilities

d. Investing in relationships

2. Seek the mind of the Spirit as to what the best times and means are to turn the church’s affairs over to its leaders.

3. Challenge the assembly from the very beginning that reproduction , not survival, is the goal of the kingdom activity there.

4. Celebrate the church’s growth and its right to fall on its own face for God!

C. Transition

3

1. Key texts

U rban M i s s i on

a. Titus 1.4-5

b. Acts 14.21-23

2. Basic principle: transferring authority, leadership, and direction over to the leaders and congregation of the church in order that they may continue to reproduce, and associate with other like-minded assemblies for fellowship and challenge

3. Transfer leadership to indigenous leaders so they become self-governing, self-supporting and self-reproducing (appoint elders and pastors).