Mission Planting Models

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Mission Planting Models

• Lou Jander
• MMF Areas D/C
• Texas District LCMS

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• As we moved to the emphasis on church planting,
  Ive been doing the R.O.M. thing
• Reading
• Observing
• Meeting
• "We learn more by looking for the answer to a
  question and not finding it than we do from
  learning the answer itself."

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Strategic Planting Overall Model

• Three kinds clone, regionally-forced,
  partnership
• Clone not adaptable to new contexts and takes
  members from existing churches
• Regionally forced Sometimes breeds resentment
  in local churches
• Partnership keeps ownership in the hands of the
  local church by making them partners in the
  process

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Planting Philosophy

• Spurgeon guided his Pastors College men to plant
  churches by using means effective to that
  situation. He taught flexibility and to look for
  responsive fields.
• He said the policy in planting churches was like
  a florist Plant a lot of slips hoping that
  some of them will strike.
• Report of the College Work In and Around
  London, Sword and Trowel, May 1878
• Our plan in London has been to do very little
  where we could not do much to open many rooms,
  and to start many small communities in hope that
  some of them would like to become self-supporting
  churches.

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Types of Planting

• Intentional
• Creating a plan to initiate a new congregation
• Unintentional
• Embracing and supporting a new congregation that
  it did not choose to initiate
• "You teach best what you most need to learn."

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Intentional Planting Models

• Daughtering
• when a single church initiates, creates, and
  leads the creation of a new congregation
• Shared parenting
• when two or more congregations work together to
  parent a new congregation
• Satellites
• begun by a local congregation with the eventual
  goal of producing an organized, self-sustaining
  congregation

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Intentional Planting Models

• Multicampus
• similar to satellite
• major difference no intention to form a new
  self-supporting church
• Colonization
• entails the relocation of a core team to a
  distant community by a parent church
• Restarting
• denomination comes alongside a struggling
  congregation, closes it and then restarts

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Intentional Planting Models

• Language Group Congregations
• an existing congregation targets a specific
  language group
• Inside-Out Planting
• new church continues to meet in the old sanctuary
  but has its budget, board of elders, and
  strategic approach to ministry
• House Churches
• a church that meets in a private home
• excellent way to use bivocational ministers or
  lay ministers

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Intentional Planting Models

• An adaptation of other models
• The next paradigm
• "It is impossible for a man to learn what he
  thinks he already knows."

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Unintentional Planting Models

• Splat
• Adoption
• Death and rebirth
• Surprise
• Surrogate Parenting

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Other Church Planting Models

• Program-based Church Planting
• is the planting of a church that will
  minister to people and grow through a variety of
  church programs. These programs will consist of
  some combination of evangelism discipleship
  youth, children, men, women ministries music
  missions and social ministries.

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Other Church Planting Models

• Purpose-Driven-based Church Planting
• is the planting of a church that focuses on
  five purposes of a church
• outreach
• worship
• fellowship
• discipleship
• service

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Other Church Planting Models

• Seeker-Focused-based Church Planting
• is the planting of churches that
  intentionally target specific seeker populations,
  and position themselves to respond to the
  targets needs.

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Other Church Planting Models

• Ministry-based Church Planting
• is the planting of a church that will go
  into the community, impact peoples lives, and
  draw them towards the gospel.

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Other Church Planting Models

• Relation-based Church Planting
• is relatively new and attempts to solve the
  riddle of reaching and congregationalizing
  postmoderns. Relation-based churches are nothing
  more than networks of single cell churches.
  These churches are fluid and spread along
  relational lines through people networks.

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Other Church Planting Models

• Affinity-based Church Planting
•    involves the starting of a church among a
  specific people or cultural group. The culture
  can be defined ethnically, by language,
  socioeconomic factors, lifestyle preferences, or
  other distinguishing characteristics.

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Most Plants Fit Unto

• Parachute
• Sponsoring Church or Organization / Mother Church
• Collaborative Network / Partnership
• House Church / Cell Church Network
• Satellite / Campus / Multi-site
• Restart / Re-launch
• Church Split

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Art More Than Science

• Intentionally or unintentionally, churches need
  to parent new churches
• How it is done is not nearly as important as that
  it is done
• Life isnt a science we make it up as we go
  along.

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Barriers to Determining a Model

• Reluctant leadership
• Not praying about church multiplication
• Setting aside definitions of success
• Buildings
• Bodies
• Budgets

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Myths in Parenting Models

• The myth of attendance
• The myth of age
• The myth of acquisition
• The myth of adequacy

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Leadership Network
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Leadership Network 2002 Dave Travis Church
Planting Chart Version 2.0
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• "We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
  We must learn to explore all the options and
  possibilities that confront us in a complex and
  rapidly changing world."