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CHURCH PLANTING MOVEMENTS: 4 TRANSFORMING PRINCIPLES

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Recently I read David Garrison’s book on this. It showed me that many of our methods are what we have inherited rather than the Biblical model for growing churches. The focus of Church planting movements is on making disciples. Here are 4 key principles: 1.Make discipling people the main focus Jesus commanded us to make […]

EXTRAORDINARY CHURCH GROWTH: 5 LESSONS FOR TODAY

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Just two pioneers Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vinnagren, Swedish Baptist immigrants to the USA, started Assemblies of God in Brazil. Their church growth story has much relevance for us today and  is found in a book about the Pentecostal movement in Brazil, called “One Hundred years of Pentecostals” (Alfredo Oliva). In 1910, Berg and Vinnagren […]