11/12/2023
11th December 2023 basics for church planting in Bible
1)You got to know the gospel ( understand and know the gospel )
Romans 1:16
[16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. The great commission is not to plant churches but to make disciples. Paul preached the gospel from Acts 11… the gospel is the power . Anything else you do in church planting and neglect the gospel , you have lost the power. Anything else you do , music , medicines etc without the gospel is powerless. God will bless the correct preaching of the gospel but only the gospel has power to save
What is the gospel ?
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
[1] Now I would remind you, brothers,(1) of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, [2] and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
[3] For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, [4] that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
Footnotes
(1) 15:1 Or *brothers and sisters*; also verses 6, 31, 50, 58
Paul places the gospel as priority in 1 Cor 15:1-4
Christ died for our sins
2)you got to understand the great commission and that it is to make disciples ( when they believe we baptize them and teach them , a church involved in the great commission is to make disciple 2Tim2:2
2)Know the Great commission ( disciple making)
Matthew 28:19-20
[19] Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in(2) the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [20] teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Footnotes
(2) 28:19 Or *into*
3. know what a church does ( Acts 2:42-47
Acts 2:42-47
[42] And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. [43] And awe(4) came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. [44] And all who believed were together and had all things in common. [45] And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. [46] And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, [47] praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
Footnotes
(4) 2:43 Or *fear*
4)Follow the biblical model (Acts 14:19-28)
Acts 14:19-28
[19] But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. [20] But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. [21] When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, [22] strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. [23] And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
[24] Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. [25] And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia, [26] and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled. [27] And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. [28] And they remained no little time with the disciples.
