Front Matters

52 • F RONT M ATTERS : P REREQUISITE R EADINGS FOR THE E VANGEL S CHOOL OF U RBAN C HURCH P LANTING

Source: Ripe for Harvest, pp. 54-64

Review the following appendices in Planting Churches among the City’s Poor: An Anthology of Urban Church Planting Resources (please refer to the Appendix Table at the end of this session in order to find the location of each document listed below, i.e., its volume and page number), and then answer together the questions under Seminar Group Discussion . • Church Planting Models • The Nature of Dynamic Church Planting Movements • The Threefold Cord of Urban Cross-Cultural Church Planting Movements • Church Planting Movements, C1 Neighborhoods, and 80% Windows: The Importance of Vision • Forming the Church Plant Team and Understanding the Roles 1. Explain briefly the key components of the concepts of EEE and PLANT. 2. How does the PLANT acrostic help us understand the basic NT apostolic approaches to planting churches among the lost? 3. Briefly explain the various church plant models being employed today, and discuss their implications for planting churches among the poor in the city. 4. How does the World Impact language of expressions help us better understand how we can think of authentic Christian assembly, apart from the model language? Seminar Group Discussion

Context Values/Vision Prepare Launch Assemble Nurture Transition Schedule/Charter