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MentorNet #75 – Future of Anglo American Christianity: Interview with George Patterson

Ed — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:52:58 +0000

The decline of Christian churches in Anglo America stands well documented. Mega-churches, emerging churches and house churches represent trends that remain too small to reverse the removal of Christian thought from [...]

MentorNet #73 – Tracking Progress Of The Gospel: Monitoring Church Multiplication Indicators

Ed — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:49:51 +0000

Tracking progress of the gospel is proving to be a widely-practiced facet of mentoring for reproductive disciple-making. On the place of simple maps in leading CPMs, see MentorNet ##51 & 52. [...]

MentorNet #74 – Integrate Vital Ministries In The Biblical Way

Ed — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:12:21 +0000

Military, medical, and industrial executives have found that developing strong interaction between units and departments is vital to achieve top performance. Scripture demands it, too. Jesus is the great integrator: “In [...]

MentorNet #72 – A Systems Approach To Church Planting Endeavors

Ed — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:59:04 +0000

This MentorNet article leans to the theoretical side. There is a growing interest amongst church-planting ministries and those who support them, to learn what ‘makes things tick.’ One useful analytical approach [...]

MentorNet #71 – Integrate Healing with Evangelism and Church Planting

Ed — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:04:00 +0000

Introduction. MentorNet readers are familiar with reports of how God is moving through ‘signs and wonders’ in many regions of the world where Christian workers watch healing and deliverance open some hearts to the Gospel and shut others. Even experienced practitioners [...]

MentorNet #70 – We Started Small Groups, but they Didn’t Multiply. So Now What?

Ed — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:53:02 +0000

We are often asked in North America, “Why don’t our small groups multiply?” To sustain multiplication, your church must form three distinct types of cells, just as New Testament churches did: [...]

MentorNet #69 – Functions of Mentored Training Chains

Ed — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:53:45 +0000

Introduction Letter to the Colossians chapters 1 and 4 name several individuals who formed a kind of training chain. Paul took care not to by-pass links in the chain, respecting each one’s working relations, calling them his “co-workers”.

These [...]

MentorNet #68 – Eight Lessons Learned from a Recent Training Marathon to Introduce Mentored Training for Church Reproduction

Ed — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:44:08 +0000

In November 2009, four CP trainers, who had been mentored by George Patterson, enjoyed three intense weeks in South Asia, introducing the Train & Multiply® (www.TrainAndMultiply.com) programme to indigenous church planting entities at 19 locations, at the invitation of a non-governmental organization [...]

MentorNet #67 – The Fourth Generation

Ed — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:21:11 +0000

“You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful [...]

MentorNet #66 – Where Two Or Three Are Gathered

Ed — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:21:00 +0000

Jesus promised: “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” (Matt. 18:20) If you mentor those who multiply new gatherings and those who shepherd them, [...]