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8. Highlight the ten critical principles drawn from a church planting model from Acts, and apply them to your own church planting efforts in the city.

After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to:

Objectives for Lesson 2 Planting Urban Churches: Sowing

1. Recite and defend with Scripture the most significant concept in urban evangelism today: the principle of oikos , or household evangelism, including the idea of an oikos as that web of common kinship relationships, friendships, and associations that make up a person’s larger social circle. 2. List out clearly the more difficult challenges involved in urban evangelism (including broken family units, economic underdevelopment, alienation and loneliness, drug abuse, violence, housing shortages, and general despair) 3. Demonstrate the concept of oikos in the NT, and explain how this concept was critical in the early church’s conception of penetrating larger social units with the Gospel. 4. Explore the relationship of oikos to identity as members of the family of God, and examine the significance of the relationship of oikos to evangelism and church planting in the New Testament. 5. Detail the kind of oikos relationships (i.e., that web of common kinship relationships, friendships, and associations that make up a person’s larger social circle) that exist in our urban communities, and how critical this concept is for penetrating the circle of influence of city residents today. 6. Articulate the central benefits for oikos evangelism in the city, and relate these strategies to our evangelistic methods as we launch incarnationally into the community with the Gospel.

Teaching Objectives for Capstone, by Module

After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to:

Objectives for Lesson 3 Planting Urban Churches: Tending

1. Defend and articulate from Scripture the idea of the importance of following up new converts and discipling new believers in urban church planting. 2. The act of discipleship is welcoming new believers into the Church, i.e., incorporating new believers and equipping them in the local assembly of believers, which is God’s agent of the Kingdom in this world.