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What factors will fuel multiplication of simple churches? And what are obstacles for multiplication? CPM practitioners from over the world shared which key factors are necessary in seeing churches planted to the 4th generation and beyond. The movement has to be filled with desperate prayer, miracles and power of God, vision casting from the start, a strong focus on obedience to Christ and His Word, the use of reproducible methods and continually training leaders to plant new churches. As outsiders we need to be careful not to do much of the work. Our task is to encourage, cast vision and make a kickstart. 99% of the work needs to be done by the locals. Obstacles that need to be taken are to overcome Christian culture, lack of ownership and many more. Read on to learn more.

“If the mentoring process is right, in a relatively short time the relationship moves from one of mentor/mentoree to coworkers/peers.” says David Watson. The goal of mentoring is the development of the mentoree into a leader-maker, not into a student. The mentoree has to mature and reproduce. One way to facilitate this is to only mentors people if they also mentor others. Knowledge and skill sets cannot be learned until one is teaching it to others. If we don’t produce healthy leaders we have to evaluate the mentoring process. Read on to learn more how to effectively train leaders!

Have you ever find your bible study group is not multiplying? People are sharing their problems and hurts and are focussed on each other but they don’t really grow in Christ? They don’t really share their faith with others and are inward focussed? Here’s a simple paradigm for turning your bible study group into a disciple making group that reproduces. In a traditional home group, it’s the red that gets left out when time runs out. In a multiplying discipleship group it’s black that gets left out when time runs out.

From time to time it is necessary to evaluate how your mentoring process is going along. Do your leaders train other leaders? Do your leaders grow and bring forth fruit? Do you learn from them? The questions in this post will help you to evaluate your process of mentoring and training leaders.

John White from Lk10.com shares their journey in experimenting with starting new simple churches in the harvest. They use Missional Resource Teams (MRT’s), which are small, regional apostolic teams who are committed to see a vibrant family of Jesus followers planted in their environment.

David L. Watson describes in this article the hard lessons he learned in mentoring lots of church planters. It is important to choose your mentorees carefully and to get to know them well. From there is it important to let mentorees make mistakes and release them quickly. Mentors are people who sacrifice for their mentorees and serve them. They are happy with the success of mentorees, keep communication open and take initiative in the relationship. Learn from the mistake of David and become a better mentor for leaders.

For the planting of new simple churches we need more leaders. But how do we train leaders for the movement? How did Jesus and the apostles did it? In this second article on this subject we will discuss that it is important to make your teaching interactive and easy so that people will easily pass it on to others. We will also talk about the importance of letting people discover things for themselves and many more.

For planting new churches and making new disciples we need more leaders. But how do we train leaders for the movement? How did Jesus and the apostles did it? In this first article we will discuss that Jesus and the apostles always asked obedience from the disciples. They were not holding a lineair line of teaching but were focussed on their needs.