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Step 1: Commit to Core and Discipleship
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a. A leader or team commits to being/making disciples
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We use a MAP for being and making disciples
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M = Movement
- Extroverted, Socially Embedded, Action Oriented
- Mark 1:15-17
- Cause + call to cause + acting on cause = team = discipleship
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A = attraction
- Relationships are the basis of discipleship
- Strong Relationship With Christ first
- Strong Relational Force Second
- Character of Christ
- Character Matrix/Uprising
- Competencies of Christ
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P = Process and Points
- Becoming Story oriented evangelists
- training in "Two Stories" method of evangelism
- know and tell your own compelling story
- be clear from day 1: disciples make disciples
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b. Multiply
- timeframe: 6 months
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Step 1a: Building Relationships
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Build Relationships
- premise #1: People follow people
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premise #2: The Gospel flows best through relationships with people of peace
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people of peace:
- open to you
- welcome you
- serve you
- premise #3: This takes patience AND an early willingness/ability to share your faith (see Process and Points)
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Step 2: Create a Community Group
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a. Create Community
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turn individual relationships into a team on mission
- open up your life
- make it rhythmic
- 20-50 people
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b. Make the Community Missional
- a. Choose a region or people group to serve
- b. Choose your values
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c. State your vision with clarity
- be sure to articulate why this would please Jesus
- d. invite/recruit/include others in your life/mission
- e. pray with people
- f. study the scriptures together
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Step 2a: People come to faith
- this can happen elsewhere but this is what we need to see before POP become committed disciples
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Step 3: Multiplication
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a. Starts with Disciple Reproduction
- Discipleship is the engine that drives mission
- if we disciple we always get the church but we can build a church and not get disciples
- b. Build a community around the new leader/huddle
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Step 3a: Gather for Worship
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Goals for Worship Gatherings
- Inspiration
- Momentum
- Creative and Corporate Worship
- Preaching
- Monthly Gatherings are a starting point
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Weekly Gatherings are a function of size/need
- Timeline? When we need them and can afford them
- Main Entry points