Course Description
Dynamics of the urban area and how to plant healthy churches that will be self-governing, self-propagating and self-supporting. Attention will be given to reaching the lost in multi-housing communities.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the course the student will:
- Discover the principles required to start churches in an urban setting
- Examine approaches to church growth that are biblically consistent and culturally wise
- Develop skills in Strategic thinking, planning and implementation of church planting
- Present the Early Apostolic Church Planting in the Book of Acts
- Implement learned principles into the development of a strategic church multiplication plan.
Course Content
Topics
- Introduction to the Basics of Missions and Church Planting
- Who plants churches? The Make-up of a planter
- The Church, Strategy, and Definitions of Church Growth
- Church Planting in the Book of Acts - The Apostolic Template
- Evangelistic Soil Testing
- Research and Spiritual Mapping
- Strategy and Evangelism in Church Planting
- Church Planting Models
- Leaders and leadership in church planting contexts
- How to Plant a Church without Thinking of Money
- Strategic thinking, planning and implementation
- Ministry, Money and Meeting places in church planting
- Church Growth Barriers, Cultural Factors and Church Diseases
- Writing and implementation of a strategic church multiplication plan
Mode of Delivery
Students will learn from reading, classroom discussions, course assignments, and lectures.
