Healthy Church Planting in Mexico: An Analysis of Multiplication Network

Meyer, Benjamin D.

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Healthy Church Planting in Mexico: An Analysis of Multiplication Network

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Meyer, Benjamin D. Healthy Church Planting In Mexico: An Analysis of Multiplication Network. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/15a3fe28-633d-40df-a32c-c81e907c0703.

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M. B. D. Healthy Church Planting in Mexico: An Analysis of Multiplication Network. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/15a3fe28-633d-40df-a32c-c81e907c0703

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Meyer, Benjamin D. Healthy Church Planting In Mexico: An Analysis of Multiplication Network. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/15a3fe28-633d-40df-a32c-c81e907c0703.

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Meyer, Benjamin D.

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Abstract

Through the ministry of the author in Mexico, over two thousand church planters were trained to start over one thousand new churches through the ministry of Resonate Global Mission in partnership with Multiplication Network and several denominations from 2010-2020. When these church planters were developed through the Multiplication Network’s recommended training program, the author desired to know to what extent can the new churches that were planted could be characterized as healthy congregations, kingdom communities, and reproducing organisms?The author decided to study churches that had matured for approximately four years in order to answer this question. Starting with the total population of church planters who were trained and started new churches in 2016-2017, the author chose a random sample of them. He then surveyed and interviewed not only a percentage of those church planters, but also members of their four-year-old churches.Factors were uncovered that often stood in the way of church realizing their full potential as healthy congregations, kingdom communities, and reproducing organisms, such as: antagonistic cultural forces in wider society and in the hearts of believers, navigating expectations with mother churches, getting derailed by daily pressures, and weak commitment. On the other hand, key beliefs, attitudes, and practices were unearthed that enabled some churches to become healthy congregations, kingdom communities, and—to a lesser extent—reproducing organisms, such as: seeing the local church as a family of faith, centering the life of the church on the Bible, praying for kingdom growth, desiring that non-believers receive salvation, serving sacrificially, and developing leadership potential in others.

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