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Characteristics
The revolutionary impact of Church Planting Movements can be traced to the counter-intuitive nature of the characteristics that make up these movements.
Counter-Intuitive Characteristics of Church Planting Movements
- Spend a long time preparing to multiply rapidly
- Don't teach the Bible...teach every new Christ-Follower how to discover God's truth and obey what they learn
- Expect miracles to accelerate the church planting process
- Stay only where a "person of peace" (Lk. 10) is ready to hear and obey
- Disciple people to conversion, not vice versa
- Focus only on the few who can be leaders now, so many will hear later
- Expect the hardest people and places to yield the greatest results
- Focus on discipling ordinary people, not developing professional Christians
- Always enter as a servant, never a master
- A novice insider will produce more fruit than a highly trained outsider
