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Which focus is better (church planting or disciple making)?

As someone who participated in church plants many years ago, I am shocked to see how many of these endeavours have survived and, nevertheless thrived!  Why is that?  The team I was a part of, as a very junior member, was very experienced. We did nothing without God.

The answer came to us years later and recently I saw a very good analogy in nature. 

As a hobby beekeeper, I have seen two types of bee hives.  Natural Hives and Man-made hives. 

Once someone has admitted their wrongs and wants to turn their life around with Jesus as their Lord and Saviour it is time to discuss their baptism. Once you have discussed the process and you are sure that they both understand it and agree to participate in the process it is time to practice it.

There are four basic steps to group decision-making and or conflict resolution.

1. Prayer
2. Consult any Scripture on the topic
3. Apply a tool like 'ORID'
4. Ask yourself: “What would Jesus do?” 

So the group has hit a fork in the road and you want to move past it. What do you do?

Firstly get yourself right with God and seek guidance in prayer.

Stan, a good friend, and I were walking in the garden the other day.  He asked “Is that an apple tree?” and pointed to a tree that was about 600 mm (2 ft) tall.  It was jam-packed with fruit (over twenty). I told him that it was a fairly young apple tree.  He was amazed at the amount of fruit on it and asked me how it had so many apples.  Was it a special type of apple tree?

If you can’t read that is not a problem. Neither could I when I first started out.  (Most of the people that the bible was originally written for in the first place couldn't either.)

For the moment check out these audio MP3 versions of the Bible. :-)

DMM and CPM Strategy Summary:

1. Focus on the two most important days of their life

2. Focus on Equipping and Permission Giving

3. Encourage early Baptism with knock-on effects

4. Pray for and thank God for your Grandchildren

5. Keep systems simple, short, authentic and reproducible

Practical Disciple Making Methods Explained:

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We encourage people to find and grow their relationship with God through prayer and studying the Bible. No one is the fountain of all knowledge. With the help of the Holy Spirit, the Bible, a few friends and an easy tool you can grow along your journey with God as well as help others at the same time. If you want to know how please go to this article it will show you how easy it is.

Cheers

Meet God At Home Team.

Acts 9:31   So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied. (ESV)