MentorNet #71 – Integrate Healing with Evangelism and Church Planting

Copyright © 2010 by By Bruce G. Permission is granted freely to reproduce, translate, post and distribute. 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. [...]

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

Copyright © 2009 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson. Permission is granted freely to reproduce, translate, post and distribute. 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: seeker, seeder and [...]

MentorNet #69 – Functions of Mentored Training Chains

Copyright © 2009 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson. Permission is granted freely to reproduce, translate, post and distribute. 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, [...]

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

Copyright © 2009 by Paul-Timothy.net Permission is granted to reproduce, translate, distribute and post this document. 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 [...]

MentorNet #67 – The Fourth Generation

Copyright © 2009 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson This document may be copied, translated, posted or distributed without permission. “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 men who will [...]

MentorNet #66 – Where Two Or Three Are Gathered

Copyright © 2009 by Galen Currah, Edward Aw and George Patterson This document may be copied, translated, posted or distributed without permission. 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, then you [...]

MentorNet #65 – Working the Personnel, Not The Principles

Copyright © 2009 by Galen Currah, George Patterson, and Edward Aw This document may be freely copied, translated, distributed, given and sold Introduction Patterson, Schwartz, Neumann, Chaudhrie, Garrison, Watson and others have been tracking church planting movements (CPM) the past couple of decades. These have served us well by identifying and describing the kinds of [...]

MentorNet #64 – Seven Essential Activities That Foster Church Multiplication

Copyright © 2009 by Galen Currah, George Patterson, and Edward Aw This document may be freely copied, translated, distributed, given and sold Since the late twentieth century, several researchers have written in English on various “universal” factors, functions or traits that cause or abet church-planting movements. We owe a great debt to such specialists as [...]

MentorNet #63 – Best Starting Places For New Churches

  Copyright © 2009 by Galen Currah, Ed Aw and George Patterson This document may be freely copied, stored, distributed and sold. During this decade, certain ‘universal factors’, common traits and basic practices of church-planting movements have become widely known and are now being taught in most countries. Consequently, Church Planter mentors and teachers are [...]

MentorNet #62 – Moving Our Churches Underground

Jesus warned his follower that they would face unjust persecution, hateful lies and even early death. That has often come true throughout history, and is increasing at this time. Religious and political opposition to biblical faith is growing in the West at an alarming rate. We who love Jesus must begin taking our churches underground where they can thrive and multiply.

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