The concept of “church” was started as the tabanacle where the Ark of Covenent was placed (Old Testament). Then it was transferred into the “Temple building” where people experienced God’s presence. When Jesus came to dwell among people, He was the Temple instead of the building. He confirmed it; “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days” (John 2:19 NIV). When the Holy Spirit came upon His people, every individual became a “Temple of God”. “You are God’s temple and God’s Spirit dwells in you” (1 Corinthians 3:16 NIV). With the idea of the “Body of Christ” the entire community became “Church”. Therefore, in this paper, I am going to discuss how to build individuals, communities, and congregations, in Christ Jesus. In other words, the theme of this paper is how to build a “Kingdom people”, or making congregations ready for the eternal kingdom of God.
What is church planting?
Church planting could be simply defined as that ministry which seeks to establish new churches. This will be through evangelism, discipleship, and gathering of these persons into a functioning congregation. Most church planting will also have the long-term goal of multiplication. “We thus offer this definition; church planting is that ministry which through evangelism …show more content…
First, ‘The Personal Church Planter”; his goal is quite simple to begin a new church and pastor it. Second, “The Catalytic Church Planter”; he plants a church and remains as pastor in that church, or serves as a resource person in the region to become a catalyst or facilitator for church reproduction. Third, “The Apostolic Church Planter”; his approach is radically different. He seeks to follow the model of the Apostle Paul, who as far as we know never became the pastor of a church he planted. Instead, after initial evangelism, he focused on empowering the local believers, primarily lay persons, to carry on and expand the work after his