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Week 1.1: Getting Started - How This Works
Apprenticeship, redefined
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read Overview of Promises and Expectations
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Review the process and themes in Cultivate Introduction
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Think: Why are you starting Cultivate?
- Capture your “why” on video
- Reflection Questions
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Week 1.2: Getting Started - Who Is My Cultivate Champion?
Because starting is easy, but finishing well is hard.
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Intro
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Scenario
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Get Prepared: Read Finding a Cultivate Champion
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Get Prepared: Read Cultivate Champion Relational Covenant
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Choose a Cultivate Champion
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Meet with your potential Cultivate Champion
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Invite your Cultivate Champion to the Cultivate System
- Upload your signed covenant.
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Begin Meeting
- Reflection Questions
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Week 1.3: Getting Started - Your Coach
Who will ask you the right questions?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read What is a Cultivate Coach?
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Choosing a Cultivate Coach
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Link your coach to the Cultivate system.
- Upload your signed covenant
- Reflection Questions
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Need some additional help?
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Week 1.4: Getting Started - Your Time
How will you free up your most precious resource?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read Finding the Time for Cultivate
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Cultivate Time Finder
- Reflection Questions
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Week 2.1: Calling - Why Plant Churches?
What do you say to others—and yourself—to that all-important question: why?
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Week 2.2: Calling - My Planter Profile
Are you ready to plant a church?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Create Your Church Planter Profile
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Complete Your Church Planter Profile
- View & Upload Your Church Planter Profile
- Reflection Questions
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Week 3.1: Calling - Proverbs 19:20 Project
Gaining the insight you need from those who’ve gone before you
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read The Proverbs 19:20 Interview Note
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Interview Church Planters
- Interview 1: Reflection Questions
- Interview 2: Reflection Questions
- Interview 3: Reflection Questions
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Week 3.2: Calling - Priority of Prayer
When you walk into the battle, who will be at your side?
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Intro
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Scenario
- Read Acts 4
- Make a list of the “threats” before you right now.
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Who can accompany you in prayer?
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Prayer Team
- Reflection Questions
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Week 4.1: Context - Out of the Culture
How do you build a church where messy, broken people meet Jesus?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Watch Video by John Burke
- Reflection Questions
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Week 4.2: Context - What makes this place so unique?
Finding keys to unlock the doors between Christ and Culture
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Intro
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Scenario
- Conversations Part 1
- Conversations Part 2
- Reflection Questions
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Week 5.1: Context - Barriers and Bridges
Do you know what helps people in your community come to faith—and what doesn’t?
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Week 5.2: Context - Create a Cultural Profile
Who has God called you to reach?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read Create a Cultural Profile
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Gather data for the Demographic Profile
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Schedule time in the Community
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Visit the Community
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Reevaluate your Plan
- Upload your Cultural Profile
- Reflection Questions
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Week 6.1: Clarity - A Church Unique
What kind of church will we be?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Watch Will Mancini
- Reflection Questions
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Week 6.2: Clarity - Better
What can you do better than 10,000 churches?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Opportunity: What does your community need?
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Potential: How is the church body gifted?
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Calling: What are you passionate about?
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Your Kingdom Concept
- Reflection Questions
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Week 7.1: Clarity - What's Important?
What do you really value?
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Intro
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Scenario
- What do you really value?
- Reflection Questions
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Week 7.2: Clarity - Create a Vision Frame
What is your vision?
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Intro
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Scenario
- Read & Complete: Clarify Your Vision
- Reflection Questions
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Week 8: Clarity - Napkin Test
Can you really communicate your vision?
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Intro
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Scenario
- Watch Missional Church Video
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The Napkin Test – Part 1
- The Napkin Test – Part 2
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Coach and Champion Review
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Tell Your Vision to a Stranger
- Reflection Questions
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Week 9.1: Core - Who then What
Who will join with you in your vision?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Watch: Who then What with Keith Ferguson
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Watch: Who then What with Dave Nelson
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Watch: Who then What with Scott Bloyer
- Video Reflections
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Read: Who?
- Questions about Your Missional Core
- Reflection Questions
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Week 9.2: Core - Habits Create Culture
Translating values into habits and habits into culture
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Intro
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Scenario
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Create Culture Assignment: Week 1
- Week 1 Reflection
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Create Culture Assignment: Week 2
- Week 2 Reflection
- Reflection Questions
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Week 10.1: Core - Count the Cost
How much does it really cost to start a church?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Question One: How much will my lifestyle cost?
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Question Two: How much does it really cost to start and run a church?
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Question Three: Where is this money going to come from?
- Reflection Questions
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Week 10.2: Core - Make an Ask
Are you willing to ask people of faith to fund your vision?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Recommendations for the Ask
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1) Create the Ask.
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2) Practice the Ask
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3) Send or present the Ask
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4) Feedback from the Ask
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5) Create the List for the Ask
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6) Send the finalized Ask
- Reflection Questions
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Week 11: Core - Create a Core Building Plan
What kind of foundation will you lay?
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Intro
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Create your Core Building Plan
- Reflection Questions
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Week 12.1: Build Relationships - Jesus in the Neighborhood
How will you re-present Him?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Watch Hugh Halter
- Reflection Questions
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Week 12.2: Build Relationships - Re-Orient
What needs to change?
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Intro
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Scenario
- Re-Orient Action Plan
- Reflection Questions
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Week 13.1: Build Relationships - The Power of Networks
What does it really take to create relational momentum?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read the Scriptures
- Scripture Questions
- Go on a Relational Scavenger Hunt
- Reflection Questions
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Week 13.2: Build Relationships - Start Where They Are
What are the stages on the journey to faith?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Part One: Chart the Stages
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Part Two: Describe the Stages
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Part Three: Populate the Stages
- Reflection Questions
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Week 14: Build Relationships - Create a Relational Momentum Plan
How will you create relational momentum?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read the Building Relationships note
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Create a Strategy for Building Relationships
- Reflection Questions
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Week 15.1: Create Community - A Place to Belong
Where can people belong before they believe?
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Week 15.2: Create Community - Throw a Party
Can you party like Jesus?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Throw a Party
- Reflection Questions
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Week 16: Create Community - Start a Group
How do you intentionally create community?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Start a Group
- Reflection Questions
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Week 17: Create Community - Create a Multiply-Community Plan
How will you multiply community?
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Intro
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Read: The Essential Elements of Community
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Research what others are doing
- Develop a Community Plan
- Reflection Questions
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Week 18.1: Serve Your Neighbor - Serve First
What What does it mean for the body of Christ to serve first?does it mean for the body of Christ to serve first?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Watch Steve McNary
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Test Steve’s assumptions in your own community
- Reflection Questions
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Week 18.2: Serve Your Neighbor - Seeing Needs
What are the visible needs of your neighbors?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Seeing the Needs
- Categorize the Needs
- Reflection Questions
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Week 19.1: Serve Your Neighbor - Community Interviews
Who knows what your neighbors need?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Schedule Interviews
- Interview Summary
- Reflection Questions
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Week 19.2: Serve Your Neighbor - Purposeful Acts of Kindness
Whom can you serve?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Select a Need
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Invite Your Central Team
- Serving Plan
- Reflection Questions
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Week 20: Serve Your Neighbor - Creating Your Serving Plan
How will your church transform your city?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read: Creating a Serving Plan Note
- Three Shining Stars
- Complete the Serving Plan Template
- Reflection Questions
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Week 21.1: Lead People to Faith - Helping People Find Their Way
How do people come to faith?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Watch John Burke
- Reflection Questions
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Week 21.2: Lead People to Faith - Getting Past the Superficial
What fears keep you from sharing your faith?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Five Spiritual Conversations
- Reflection Questions
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Week 22.1: Lead People to Faith - Sharing Your Faith
How will you communicate the good news?
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Intro
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Scenario
- Record a video of yourself sharing the good news
- Review your video
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Have some real conversations
- Reflection Questions
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Week 22.2: Lead People to Faith - Equipped for Every Good Work
How will you equip others to share the good news?
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Intro
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Scenario
- 1) Uncover the “why” behind sharing your faith.
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2) Find someone in your core that’s interested in learning to share the good news more effectively.
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3) Meet to discuss the “why” behind sharing your faith.
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4) Train the person to share the good news.
- Reflection Questions
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Week 23: Lead People to Faith - Create an Evangelism Plan
How will you create an evangelistically effective church?
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Intro
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Read: Leading People to Faith
- Create Your Own Plan
- Reflection Questions
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Week 24.1: Help People Grow - Making Disciples
What if your only measure of success was making more and better disciples?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read the Gospel of Mark
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Read Acts 13-28
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Reflect on the life of an effective disciple-maker
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Reflect on your own ministry experience
- Making Disciples Document
- Reflection Questions
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Week 24.2: Help People Grow - How Do You Know When You've Got One?
How do you define a disciple of Jesus?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Definition of a Disciple
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Compare Your Definition
- Upload Your Definition and Answers
- Reflection Questions
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Week 25.1: Help People Grow - Theory of Change
What causes real, lasting change in someone's life?
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Week 25.2: Help People Grow - Formation Models
How will you make disciples?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Think about different formation models
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Interview Leaders
- Analyze their models.
- Choose a model
- Reflection Questions
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Week 26: Help People Grow - Create a Spiritual Growth Plan
How will you help people become who God intended them to be?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read: How Does Your Garden Grow?
- Spiritual Growth Plan
- Reflection Questions
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Week 27.1: Develop Leaders - Exponential Growth
How does the church grow exponentially?
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Week 27.2: Develop Leaders - Learning from the Learner
What do emerging leaders need?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Identify three emerging leaders
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Prepare to interview emerging leaders
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Interview each emerging leader
- Top things leaders need
- Reflection Questions
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Week 28.1: Develop Leaders - Who's Next? What's Next?
Who will you invest in?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read: Who’s Next? What’s Next? Note
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Who’s Next? What’s Next? Worksheet
- Upload Who’s Next? What’s Next? Worksheet
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Create a to-do list for each potential leader you
- Reflection Questions
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Week 28.2: Develop Leaders - Pick an Apprentice
Who will you invest in?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Choose a person in whom you will invest
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Meet with this person
- Reflection Questions
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Week 29: Develop Leaders - Create a Leadership Development Plan
How will you develop leaders?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read: A Framework for Developing Leaders
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Download: the Leader Development Plan Template.
- Upload your Plan
- Reflection Questions
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Week 30.1: Gather to Grow - The Church Planting Myth
What expectations do you have about the church you’re starting?
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Intro
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Scenario
- Your Expectations
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Pray over your list
- Reflection Questions
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Week 30.2: Gather to Grow - Welcome
How will you welcome people to your community?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Unfamiliar Field Trip
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Visit a New Church
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Read: Everyone’s Welcome Note
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Complete: Creating a Welcoming Gathering Template
- Reflection Questions
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Week 31: Gather to Grow - Catalytic Gatherings
What will you do when you invite people to gather each week?
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Intro
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Scenario
- Visit Five Churches
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Read: Catalytic Gatherings Note
- Complete: Template for Creating Catalytic Gatherings
- Reflection Questions
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Week 32: Gather to Grow - Children
How will your church make disciples of children?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read: Children’s Ministry Note
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Interview three Children’s Ministry Workers
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Complete the Children’s Ministry Template
- Reflection Questions
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Week 33: Gather to Grow - Business Matters
Are you prepared for the administrative and legal responsibilities of leading a church?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read: Business Matters Note
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Business Matters Interviews
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Business Matters Template
- Present & Upload Your Plan
- Reflection Questions
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Week 34: Gather to Grow - Communications
How do you get your message to the right people at the right time?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Read: Communicating Effectively Note
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Interview Three Church Planters
- Communications Strategy
- Reflection Questions
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Week 35: Scale & Multiply - Create a Comprehensive Ministry Plan
How will you get people to partner with you?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Contact your coach
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Create your comprehensive ministry plan
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Get feedback and revise
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Give your first pitch
- Upload your plan
- Reflection Questions
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Week 36.1: Scale & Multiply - What Gets Measured Gets Done
How do you know if you're on track?
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Intro
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Scenario
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Operational Metrics
- Track Your Comprehensive Ministry Plan
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Sample Scorecards
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Create Your Scoreboard
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Review the Scoreboard
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Communicate Your Goals
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Be Prepared to Make Changes
- Upload Your Scorecard
- Reflection Questions
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Week 36.2: Scale & Multiply - Multiply
A multiplying movement starts with one.
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Intro
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Scenario
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Inquire: Why train church planters?
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Identify: Who could plant a church?
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Invite: Are they ready to start?
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Invest: How will you help them prepare?
- Reflection Questions
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