Church Multiplication Practicums
PRTH 560-562
Summary
Explore the Church Multiplication Practicums in the Home course and what you can expect to learn through the semester.
Course Overview
Church Multiplication Practicums I-III involve the study and application of biblical guidelines used by church planting movements world-wide for the multiplication of churches.
Students receive ongoing formative feedback from course instructors as they engage in the requisite fieldwork.
Textbooks
- See the current booklist.
Professors: Multiple
Assignment Overview
Working through the course training material and applying it practically under the mentorship of an experienced church planter. Meetings with the mentor are weekly live, one-on-one video calls.
Practical application includes discipling home church members and training new leaders to plant new congregations.
Regular mentorship meetings will help assure that you fulfill the course objectives.
Intended Outcomes
Knowledge of
- All the ministries that the New Testament requires of a church, and how to base them directly on Jesus’ specific commands.
- The New Testament dynamics that sustain rapid church multiplication movements.
- New Testament small church worship style, and the place of interactive dialog.
- The different New Testament spiritual gifts that God gives to believers.
- The importance and value of children’s active engagement in weekly worship.
- How powerfully older children can lead and disciple younger children.
Appreciation for
- The practical variety of spiritual gifts that God gives to His people to use during worship and during the week.
- The enjoyment of having children worship together with adults, keeping families together.
- The fact that a congregation’s smallness can assure its health and multiplication.
- The benefits that come from small congregations working together as one regional body.
- Tough leadership that perseveres in spite of setbacks and works around even the most serious of problems.
Ability to
- Train new leaders to use a biblical small church worship style.
- Engage children actively in worship.
- Integrate pastoral and mercy ministries, except when dealing with life-and-death incidents that demand immediate attention, such as the Good Samaritan faced when he dealt with an injured Jew on the road to Jericho.
- Engage many new leaders in shepherding new, tiny congregations, using Train And Multiply®.
- Enable church members to serve one another and neighbors by using their many different spiritual gifts in loving harmony.
- Mentor leaders, who mentor newer leaders, and so forth, in 2 Tim. 2:2 chains.
- Enable shepherds to practice these ministries that the New Testament requires.