6. ‘Lifestreams and our Emerging Vision’ Part 2

7. 1. What is all this talk about Replanting or Planting a Daughter Church? –a. In the Scriptures, the church is always female. –b. Biblical foundations for daughtering

8. 2. What are some practical reasons for Replanting or Planting a Church? 1. Effectiveness in Evangelism –THE FACTS ARE THAT… …the most effective method of evangelism is church planting. …the most effective method of evangelism is church planting. …the most effective method of church planting is daughter church planting. …the most effective method of church planting is daughter church planting.

9. Christian Schwarz writes in Natural Church Development, “Hardly anything demonstrates the health of a congregation as much as the willingness—and ability!—to give birth to new congregations. The opposite is true as well. Hardly anything is a more clear indication of illness than structures which by design hinder church multiplication, or at best permit it as an absolute exception.”

10. 2. Increased Spiritual Passion in the Mother Wonderful things happen in a church when it becomes a mother (or a partner) church. –AN INCREASED PASSION FOR THE GREAT COMMISSION –GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO GIVE. –CLIMBING A SPIRITUAL MOUNTAIN RESULTS IN A DEEPENED RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. –NEW STRATEGIES FOR OUTREACH ARE OFTEN DISCOVERED THROUGH PLANTING A DAUGHTER CHURCH.

11. 3. Parenting is a Joyful Experience 4. Leadership Development 5. Kingdom Growth –The three “killer B’s” of church success are 1.Bodies 2.Bucks 3.Buildings

12. 6. Family Legacy The United Kingdom is a good example of the tragedy of not carrying on the family legacy. A hundred years ago it was a great bastion of the faith, and sent missionaries all around the world to spread the Gospel. Today the U.K. is barely Christian at all. The flame has died down.

13. 6. Family Legacy Turkey – “Most of the miraculous church planting recounted in the book of Acts happened in the region of Turkey. Yet today it is a 99.8% Muslim nation with only 0.01% of the population being evangelical Christians. Yet in the second century as much as 60% of the region was one of the strongest Christian footholds in the Mediterranean region.”

14. 1. Effectiveness in Evangelism 2. Increased Spiritual Passion in the Mother 3. Parenting is a Joyful Experience 4. Leadership Development 5. Kingdom Growth 6. Family Legacy 7. Denominational Growth

15. 3. Honour our History

16. NameBirthRelationship Victoria Park1958Daughter (Dec’d) Manning1960’sDaughter (Dec’d) Kelmscott 1967Daughter Kwinana 1968 Daughter Thornlie1972Daughter Vineyard1988Grand Daughter Mt Pleasant2010Adopted Daughter (Replant) India, Thailand, Late 90’s International Myanmar, Nepal to 2000’s South’n Suburbs2012Daughter