Church-Planting Strategy
Session IX >> SOILS and BREED
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Original Teaching by Steve Smith
Overview
• Foundations
• Macro Strategy – Acts Study
• Micro Strategy – Sending of the 12 & 70
• Reproducing discipleship – Matt 28:18-20
• Model House Church
Implementation
• Developing National Partners
• Developing Leaders
• BREED – Assessing a Movement
• SOILS – How to Spend Your Time
• Simple Church – Healthy Church Life
Implementation
SEEDS in SOILS BREED CPMs
• SEEDS – How to plant a movement
• SOILS – Who to invest in
• BREED – What every movement needs to reproduce
• CPM – Our end goal
SEEDS - How to plant a CPM
• Sow Broadly (to the lost and the saved)– Luke 8, parable of the 4 soils
• Encounter People of Peace – Matt 9:36-10:15; Luke 10:1-20
• Equip Reproducers – Matt 28:19-20; 2 Tim 2:2
• Develop Churches– Acts 2:42-47
• Strengthen Leaders– 1 Timothy 3; Titus
Assessment
• Generational growth is critical to knowing how to reach a target group.– Problems of 2nd & 4th generation
• Your yearly goal: – Invest in the most critical persons (SOILS) and
highest value activities (BREED) that will move you forward 1-2 steps along the continuum.
• What are the most critical elements?• Develop 6-12 month action plans to do this.
CPM Continuum
1. Unsure – unsure of how to proceed toward CPM or no plan
2. Moving purposefully 0 to 1 – trying to consistently establish 1st generation believers & churches
3. Moving purposefully 1 to 2 – Consistent 1st & some 2nd gen churches
4. Near CPM - consistent 2nd, some 3rd gen churches
5. Beginning CPM - consistent 3rd gen churches, some 4th
6. Sustained CPM - consistent 4th generation churches; multiple streams are started
SOILS – Where to Invest
• Spirit – fervent prayer
• Outsiders – to find persons of peace
• Insiders – cast vision and train trainers
• Leaders – multiply fruitful leaders
• Segments – reach unreached segments
YOUR SITUATION
SOILS of the CPM Continuum – whom to relate to at each stage
Few/no Target Group Christians
Many willing Target Group Christians
Many Multiplying Target Group Churches
Progress from lostness toward sustained church planting movements
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•Your team•Cast vision and train far & near culture partners•Much evangelism that leads to planting
•Including development of appropriate EV materials/methods
•Find breakthrough Persons of Peace (Luke 10) especially via “PUSHES”•Move new converts to category below•Start as many streams as possible
•Cast vision to target group believers to become willing partners•Training Trainers until multiple generations exist•Help partners to do the same
•Look for ways the CPM is naturally crossing over•Via same, near or far culture partners•Looking for people of peace through special PUSHES•Until the entire target group is saturated
•Develop a network of frequent, fervent pray-ers
•Including your and your team•Expand it to your national colleagues
•Mid-level trainings.•Top-level leader mentoring.•Of fruitful people (proven worth)
Spend the appropriate percentageof ministry time on what is needed to move across the continuum
The CPM ContinuumFew/no Target Group Christians
Many willing Target Group Christians
Many Multiplying Target Group Churches
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SSegments – getting egments – getting to new lost segmentsto new lost segments
Spirit - Fervent Prayer Always
Because God is already at work we canmove across the continuum quickly!
Most M’s move 1-2 Most M’s move 1-2 steps at a time across steps at a time across the continuum . . .the continuum . . .Celebrate each step Celebrate each step forward!forward!
BREED – What a CPM Needs
• Big Vision
• Reproducing methods
• Expectations and accountability
• Equipping leaders
• Death & Spiritual Breakthrough – the spiritual triggering event.
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What would you do if…• There were 3rd generation churches planted and rapid
growth • You launched a new church plant • You found a few hungry local believers and led a person
of peace to the Lord• There are several POPs and national partners who are
seeing people saved and groups established• There was 4th generation churches, widespread fruit, but
lots of pastoral problems • There were several people coming to Christ, but you were
having a difficult time following up