Focus on Reproduction, Student Workbook, SW12

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F O C U S O N R E P R O D U C T I O N

• In order to readily and rightly empower emerging urban churches, important obstacles must be overcome and challenges must be met to ensure that they both mature and reproduce. These include the issue of authority, avoiding dependence while ensuring friendship and connection, and encouraging the church to not merely survive but reproduce itself for Christ. • Equipping competent leaders for the emerging church is the greatest task of the church plant team. Godly church leadership can be understood through four interrelated aspects: the godly leader must be commissioned, i.e., a person of distinct recognized call; the godly leader must be a person of character , i.e., a person of proven experience; the godly leader must be a person of competence: a person of gifting and skill; finally, the godly leader must be a person of community: a person who lives to serve and sacrifice on behalf of others.

I. Empowerment: Transitioning Leaders Toward Independence

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A. Purposes to pursue

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To transfer leadership of the growing church over to its own leaders and members, in order that they may become a self-governing, self-supporting, and self-reproducing church

1. The focus is upon appointing and equipping leaders who can take over responsibility for the church .

a. Acts 14.23

b. Acts 20.32

c. Titus 1.5