Starting a Church Planting Movement to Reach Your City, Region & Nation, Part 1
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Know the Land - Floyd is speaking to a group of church leaders in Northeast Scotland about how to start a movement in their area. Though the illustrations he uses and the information he draws is from the area of Scotland where he is speaking, the power of what he teaches applies anywhere. Floyd is assisted by one of his co-leaders in the work in Cape Town named Alexander Campbell. Alex is well known in English circles for his work with the DAWN movement. The theme of the first message is "seeing the big picture" - getting to know your area from a strategic perspective.
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Dear sirs,
I've just heard this first message on your site and have also read some of Neil Cole's books about multiplication and Life Transformation groups (Organic Church and Search and Rescue), which I find very exciting. (Are you linked to Cole in any way?)
I'm English but live and teach (English!) in Viseu in inland central/northern Portugal, which is the area with fewest Bible-believing churches and believers in the country. Sadly, church traditions and denominational 'battle-lines' hinder the expansion of the church and kingdom of God here. Church leaders - which I'm not, though I lead a small group of volunteer workers in the GBU (IFES) student movement - are highly sceptical of new ideas and anything which seems to mean losing control of their sheep (church members! tho' we have plenty of the woolly sort too), but I'm sure this type of thinking and church planting could have a massive effect here in this largely rural part of Europe.
My question is really about the suitability of the strategies (and I need encouragement to get sth started here!). One local pastor who is very open to talking feels this sort of thinking is too anglo-saxon and simply won't work here, precisely because it's not what people - churched or unchurched - are used to. In your experience how have you seen small groups multiplying and birthing new groups in different cultures? Is this really cross-cultural? I have begun meeting with one other person to read scripture, pray and confess to one another - à la Cole's LTGs - and understand the concept of multiplication beginning very slowly with one seed and then accelarating growth after several generations are birthed.
I'll have to leave it at that for now, but dream of seeing my adopted city of Viseu with church/Bible groups in every neighbourhood or block of flats... one day!! Please pray for us.