Reproducible Pastoral Training

George Patterson

Description

Patrick O’Connor highlights specific action-oriented principles from the teachings of George Patterson as he guides the reader through the various aspects of cross-cultural ministry: the gathering of new believers, the development of new churches, the mobilization of new churches into a movement, the training of new leaders, and the departure of the pioneering ministers.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian Church
• Religion
• Administration

Informations

• Publié par: William Carey Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645084679
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Reproducible Pastoral Training: Church Planting Guidelines from the Teachings of George Patterson
Copyright 2006 by John Patrick O Connor
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Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE. NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION.
Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
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Drawings: Justin Long
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ISBN: 978-0-87808-367-1 (paperback), 978-1-64508-467-9 (epub)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
O Connor, John Patrick.
Reproducible pastoral training : church-planting guidelines from the teachings of George Patterson / John Patrick O Connor.
p. cm.
Includes bibiliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87808-367-7 (alk. paper)
1. Church development, New. 2. Missions--Cross-cultural studies.
3. Intercultural communication--Relitious aspects--Christianity.
4. Christianity and culture. 5. Missions--Study and teaching.
6. Church growth. 7. Evangelistic work. 8. Patterson, George, 1932- I.
Patterson, George. 1932- II. Title.
BV652.24.O26 2006
254 .1--dc22
2006002108
Endorsements
Patrick O Connor has accomplished the missiological version of crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope while blindfolded; he has written an organized presentation of the principles for building up indigenous churches, without turning it into another fad system. Bravo!
Gene Daniels, Author In Search of the Indigenous Church: A Missionary Pilgriimage
O Connor has provided us with a great tool that will help guide thousands of church planters in launching healthy, growing congregations.
Geoff Tunnicliffe, International Director World Evangelical Alliance
The cost of missions is rising. The numbers of international workers from North America are shrinking. If there was ever a day when stewardship demanded that we leverage our resources, it is today. The principles of Reproducible Pastoral Training will make that happen.
Paul Seger, General Director Biblical Ministries Worldwide
The biblical principles I learned from Patterson directly affected the seventy-two Buddhist background house churches that we have seen established in Myanmar and Burma during the past three years.
A Strategy Coordinator, Burma
It s been said that Christianity is always one generation from extinction. The proliferation of spiritual leaders is a crying need worldwide. Reproducible Pastoral Training shows churches in any culture how to leave a legacy of equipped spiritual leaders.
Jerry Rueb, Pastor Cornerstone Church, Long Beach, California
Reproducible Pastoral Training is an impressive, up-to-date manual on church planting that should be studied by all who are involved in church planting movements. The principles laid are universal and scriptural.
Victor Choudhrie, MD, Nagpur, India
Combining years of experience in the area of training leaders to multiply churches with a broad knowledge of scholarship in the field, O Connor has given us an excellent reference for all who seek to increase their skill and knowledge in the crucial area. As a practitioner and as a teacher, I look forward to using Reproducible Pastoral Training to mentor, coach, and teach others.
Mikel Neumann, Professor Western Seminary
This reader-friendly book is a goldmine of information on effective church planting from two men who have been doing it for years. Whether you re a church planter or church leader with a passion for reaching the lost, you can t get any more practical than this!
Rad Zdero, Author The Global House Church Movement
O Connor has provided church planters around the globe a must have resource. This material is dynamite. We used these principles to start Mongolia s first indigenous church planting movement. Don t leave home without it!
Brian Hogan, Church Planting Coach Youth with a Mission
In 1974, I wandered into the Honduran home of George and Denny Patterson. They took a raw, inexperienced and untrained young man and taught me biblical, common sense ways of being a discipler and church planter. I ve applied those principles everywhere the Lord has led me and they have not failed me. Nor will they fail you.
Jonathan Lewis, International Missionary Training Network, Mission Commission, and World Evangelical Alliance
Contents
Figures and Tables
Guidelines
Foreword
A Daughter s Testimony
Preface
Chapter
1. Gather New Flocks
2. Develop a Healthy, Joyful Body Life
3. Let Flocks Multiply
4. Train Leaders in Jesus Way
5. Pass on a Light Baton
Appendix: Two Training Curricula
Bibliography
About the Author
Figures and Tables
Figure
1. Swarm Method
2. Founding-Pastor Method
3. Mother-Church Method
4. Traveling-Apostles Method
5. Outsider Method
6. Discipling Leaders to Serve Churches
7. Reaching Women Only
8. Personality Roles within the Trinity
9. Roman Soldier in Full Armor
10. Elephants and Rabbits
11. A Traditional Education View
12. An Obedience-Oriented View
13. Teaching for Congregational Activity
14. Subjects Meet a Congregation s Need
15. Vertical Treatment of Doctrine
16. Horizontal Treatment of Doctrine
17. Verb-Based Filing System
18. Integrated Curriculum
19. Education and Training as Communication
20. Original TEEE Pastoral Trainee Booklet
21. Book One of P M Pastoral Manuals
Table
1. Train Multiply Menu Items
2. Paul-Timothy Menu Items
3. Shepherd s Storybook Menu Items
4. JUMP Menu Items
Guidelines
1. Permit the setting to shape your methods
2. Let the right people do the work
3. Follow proven guidelines to gather flocks
4. Spy out the land
5. Bond with the people and their culture
6. Form and train the right kind of task group
7. Find the receptive vein within a society
8. Find a hospitable person of peace
9. Proclaim the good news with a power that keeps it flowing
10. Pray for healing of body, heart and soul.
11. Let seekers and new believers host harvesting meetings
12. Use stories and the arts to teach with greater effect
13. Find pointers to Christ in pagan lore
14. Reach entire families for Christ
15. Baptize without delaying for legalistic reasons
16. Make disciples in a New Testament way
17. Worship and break bread in a way that fits small flocks
18. Train shepherding elders
19. Teach the Bible biblically
20. Promote dynamic interaction in small groups
21. Develop all activities that God requires a flock to do
22. Oversee work in a region in a liberating, reproductive way
23. Evaluate results with ruthless honesty
24. Let everyone in their flock serve in a vital ministry
25. Lead with the Spirit s power; do not simply enforce rules
26. Cultivate the fruit of the Spirit
27. Listen as the Lord speaks through His Word
28. Watch out! Here come wolves!
29. Resist demons in a biblical way
30. Let the poor give sacrificially.
31. Equip lay workers
32. Let children do serious ministry
33. Organize women for significant ministry
34. Dramatize biblical events
35. Build mutually edifying relationships
36. Boldly affirm the Almighty s forgiveness
37. Connect Jesus commission with His command
38. Keep church body balanced; avoid stressing pet ministries
39. Let God s Spirit play the midwife as flocks reproduce
40. Envision what God will enable his people to do in pioneer fields
41. Mentor in the background in order to sustain genuine apostolic succession
42. Encourage flocks to follow God s rules rather than man s
43. Make sure mission funds meet real needs
44. Lead humbly and firmly
45. Let a big church form tiny ones within it
46. Let house churches and cells reproduce normally
47. Organize for dynamic body life in the way that Scripture prescribes
48. Create interchurch cooperation and friendship
49. When storms rage, stay focused on crucial objectives
50. Send the right harvesters to the right fields
51. Apply God s oil to rusty organization
52. Tap others experience to solve snags with a trouble-shooting chart
53. Train new shepherds to obey Jesus first
54. Learn and do God s Word; teach integrated units
55. Listen to flocks and shepherds before instructing them
56. Keep a useful balance between the classroom and mentoring
57. Give unbiased career guidance
58. List optional studies in a training menu
59. Deal prudently with movements to Christ within other religions
60. Follow up mission courses with useful action
61. Mentor workers with proper authority
62. Write training materials that fit specific fields
63. Identify servants with a shepherd s heart
64. Discern how and how long to mentor
65. Equip sending churches like the one in Antioch
66. Decide wisely who should mentor new leaders
67. Commission and send out workers
68. Uphold a high view of the flocks
Foreword
I appreciate Patrick O Connor s compilation of these church planting and training guidelines. He has shown painstaking perseverance while wading through piles of boring stuff, gleaning and organizing it. In compiling the topics in a useful order, he recovered many lost gems that I had forgotten. He also brings a fresh view from the field where he is currently immersed in church planting while training Christian leaders.
One of many missionaries whom I have mentored through the years, he has applied well what I taught him, but not blindly. For years he has adapted these guidelines to a neglected area of rural western Honduras where the Lord has birthed he