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The Tentmaker Group has launched to help church planters raise funding. For many, funding is a significant challenge to the pursuit of their calling. The Tentmaker Group provides opportunities to help fund these transitions and city-changing movements. The Tentmaker Group was created in answer the following questions:
How do you transition into ministry?
How do you create a sustainable movement?
How do you fund a church plant?
How do you change a city? |
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A short video presentation of the state of the Church in the United States and why church planting is so critical. Full page includes all statistics and sources used in the video. Watch Church Planting in a Post-Christian U.S. >
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This paper sets out a new paradigm for church planting that may help create such a culture. Missionary and Missiologist Roland Allen calls the kind of church planting movement referred to in the MNA church planting vision as “the spontaneous expansion of the Church”, its “unlimited expansion” and the “spontaneous freedom of expanding life.”
It includes:
1. The PCA's Mission to North America’s (MNA) Church Planting Vision
2. Case Studies: Mars Hill in Seattle, Harbor Presbyterian in San Diego
3. Written by Tim Keller it includes much of their philosophy @ Redeemer
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Over 14,000 lay people were asked the question: "What or who was responsible for your coming to Christ and your church?" And the answers are pretty startling: |
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In the his book, The Master Plan of Evangelism, Robert Coleman, comments, "When His (Jesus') plan is reflected upon, the basic philosophy is so different from that of the modern church that its implications are nothing less than revolutionary...His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes but with men whom the multitudes would follow...Men were to be His method of winning the world to God. The initial objective of Jesus' plan was to enlist men who could bear witness to His life and carry on His work after He returned to the Father."
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