The Timothy Conference

T H E T I M O T H Y C O N F E R E N C E

Overview Plant to Birth Models

World Impact Model

Phases of Church Planting Compared to Childbirth

Emphasis During Particular Phase of Childbearing

Commitment to give birth and to parent secured from qualified parents

Commitment to Parent

Prepare

Core team, volunteers gathered/prepared, parenting church engaged, target population and community selected, studied, canvassed Ongoing outreach, small group community, structured in-reach of nucleus Announcement of Public Gathering and Worship, Celebration of gathered groups Building foundations, developing vital ministries, forming systems, achieving leadership autonomy Congregational “adulthood,” new church as Kingdom outpost: spiritual DNA planting new congregations

Conception

Launch

Prenatal Care

Assemble

Birth

Nurture

Growth Toward Maturity

Transition

Reproduction

Cross-Cultural Church Planting Principles

1.

Jesus is Lord.

2.

Evangelize, equip and empower unreached people to reach people.

3.

Be inclusive; whosoever will may come.

4.

Be culturally neutral: come just as you are.

5.

Avoid a fortress mentality.

6.

Continue to evangelize to avoid stagnation.

7.

Cross racial, class, gender and language barriers.

8.

Respect the dominance of the receiving culture.

9.

Avoid dependence.

10.

Think reproducibility.

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