On Friday Bob, Joe and I will be returning to Ghana. This is a church planting mission. We have the opportunity to work with and train many church planters.
Please pray that God's kingdom will increase.
July 15, 2008
May 23, 2008
Vision
The Well is a network of simple churches. We meet mostly in homes but we have been known to meet in businesses, coffee shops, parks, etc. Although the weekly meetings are important, the meetings are not The Well. The Well is the community. The community is made up of individuals, like you. Hopefully you are part of The Well because it strengthens and encourages your relationship with God.
But the Well is not just about you. It is about reaching others who don’t yet know what a relationship with Jesus looks like. It is about the vision. The leaders know the vision and often talk about it. But not every one has heard it. In case you haven’t heard the vision here it is: church multiplication. We want to plant house churches as simply and rapidly as we can. We want individuals and house churches who are committed to reproduction.
Meeting in someone’s living room for church is not just a convenient idea. It is a movement. The House Church movement is growing at a record pace all over the world. It has recently begun to take shape in North America. We are part of that movement.
A missionary named David Garrison has written a book called Church Planting Movements. In it he offers his Ten Commandments of Church planting. They are:
1. Immerse Your Community in Prayer
2. Saturate You Community with the Gospel
3. Cling to God’s Word
4. Fight Against Foreign Dependency
5. Eliminate All Non-Reproducible Elements
6. Live the Vision that You Wish to Fulfill
7. Build Reproduction into Every Believer & Church
8. Train All Believers to Evangelize, Disciple & Plant Churches
9. Model, Assist, Watch, and Leave
10. Discover What God is Doing and Join Him
Here is suggestion: Read the above list over a couple of times and consider how you might apply it and remember that you are part of a movement of the Holy Spirit. Everyday people right around you are dying without knowing Christ. Let’s plant some churches. Don’t lose sight of the vision.
