Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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1. Significant questions in the research, p. 11

a. See God transforming hundreds of thousands of lives in CPMs

b. Understand how God is at work in accomplishing this transformation .

c. Learning how he would have us participate in CPMs

2. Significant numbers given (without clear reference to what a church in a CPM actually looks like – to come later in his analysis), e.g., pp. 16-17. 3. “Strategy Coordinators”: a “missionary who takes responsibility for developing and implementing a com prehensive strategy – one that would partner with the whole body of Christ – to bring an entire people group to faith in Jesus Christ,” p. 17. 4. “People Group”: “a social grouping sharing a common language and sense of ethnic identity, sometimes referred to as an ethnolinguistic people group,” pp. 17-18. 6. Summary of the method of the book, p. 19 (i.e., explore a number of CPMs both near and far, describe common characteristics of them, address frequently asked questions, biblically evaluate them, and finally ask God how we can be involved.) B. Definition of Church Planting Movements: five distinct features (Please note his sociological description; it is not a theological or biblical one. ) “A CPM is a rapid multiplication of indigenous churches planting churches that sweeps through a people group or population segment,” p. 21 ( a five-part definition ). 1. A CPM reproduces rapidly (within a short period of time, newly planted churches are already planting new churches, “faster than you think possible”), p. 21. 5. “Unreached people group”: “a people group that has yet to be presented with the gospel of Jesus Christ,” p. 18.