The 80,000 churches in North India guy--http://www.viddler.com/v/7c694c4e Start @ 25 minutes.
1—How YOU met the Lord, etc. is
part of your cultural background, and does not apply to those who grew up in
other cultural backgrounds.
2—Huge barrier if we try to make
others do as we did.
3—Identify barriers that keep
people from coming to Christ. Lots about
church that people don’t want anything to do with. Muslims saw 200 barriers,
traditional Christians saw 8.
4—Traditional vs. Biblical.
5—Pagan Christianity? Barna. We
are to redeem people and cultures. But a
redeemed culture is not the way to redeem cultures. One does not have to become a European to be
a Christian, CHH says—Constantine .
Is not the only way of church and culture. Much of ‘culture’ had little to do
with the Bible. Example: Pray with bowed
heads and closed eyes.
6—We pass culture on without
thinking about it, unless we think about it and choose not to pass it on.
7—Make a conscious choice about
what to do.
8—Form has not place in missions,
i. e. the form from our culture. Form transmits the culture, not the Gospel.
9-Musch of what we hold dear in
our tradition, is detrimental to church planting in other cultures. Causes death to the movement of the Gospel.
10—How do we move the Gospel
without the transport mechanisms of our individual cultural expressions of
church.
CHH—Compare English is Anglo-Saxon
plus the church. Spanish is Catalan (?) plus the church. But do English and Spanish understand each
other.
11—See what happens in Acts as
minor compared to what the speakers are saying.
12—Gospel offends everyone, we
remove the additional offense of traditional Christianity.
13—Church planting is the end
game, much must happen before that.
14—He’ll show framework/strategy.
15—20 hours, needs 200.
16—Church Planting Missions is not
a methodology, but a way to get your methods for your situation.
17—Deculturalize the Gospel,
external guy. It’s the inside guy to take this pure and contextualize it for
the new group.
18—Example. White paper for gift to baby is ‘death’ color
in China ,
and stork is scavenger who takes away dead baby. We want to not give the Gospel with the wrong
packaging. God loves you and you can be part of His forever.
To minute 52.
19—Based on the directives, but
differs because Jesus did not select everyone to go, He selected leaders and
held them accountable. Accountable, that’s the key.
ANOTHER WEEK, 20 HOURS (?) TO
COME.
20—You 2 are responsible for 100
million people, and large has come out of that! Gojipori in India .
21—Accountable, with out it,
church planting won’t happen. E. G. Some say, my responsibility is imams. Imams
and priests become believers first!
22—Research. Minute 55. Lots of it. More from this : http://www.viddler.com/v/7c694c4e
The link to the Watson video seems to be broken, but here's the essence of it in written form: http://inthestoryline.com/2009/05/18/david-watson-and-church-planting-movements/
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