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    Church Grwoth

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    The document discusses a course on church growth taught by Rev. Takodjou Fancois. It addresses two questions: 1) Whether the church has understood its mission based on Jesus' command to make disciples of all nations. It argues the mission has two levels - a global mission to spread the gospel worldwide, and a local mission to build people up and meet their needs. The church has partially understood its mission as some sponsor global missions but others focus only locally. 2) Whether the document writer's church fully plays its role in God's desire for multiplication. It sends people on missions and abroad, but faces challenges of people not being fruitful or leaving fields without leaders. The church realized people lacked training

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    The document discusses a course on church growth taught by Rev. Takodjou Fancois. It addresses two questions: 1) Whether the church has understood its mission based on Jesus' command to make disciples of all nations. It argues the mission has two levels - a global mission to spread the gospel worldwide, and a local mission to build people up and meet their needs. The church has partially understood its mission as some sponsor global missions but others focus only locally. 2) Whether the document writer's church fully plays its role in God's desire for multiplication. It sends people on missions and abroad, but faces challenges of people not being fruitful or leaving fields without leaders. The church realized people lacked training

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    The document discusses a course on church growth taught by Rev. Takodjou Fancois. It addresses two questions: 1) Whether the church has understood its mission based on Jesus' command to make disciples of all nations. It argues the mission has two levels - a global mission to spread the gospel worldwide, and a local mission to build people up and meet their needs. The church has partially understood its mission as some sponsor global missions but others focus only locally. 2) Whether the document writer's church fully plays its role in God's desire for multiplication. It sends people on missions and abroad, but faces challenges of people not being fruitful or leaving fields without leaders. The church realized people lacked training

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    Church Grwoth

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    REVIVAL BIBLE INSTITUTE/INSTITUT BIBLIQUE DE REVEIL

    MOTTO: Revival – Excellence – Integrity

    COURSE TITLE: CHURCH GROWTH Lecturer: Rev. Takodjou Fancois.

    Done by: Sado Sado Rostand

    Question 1: Do you think that the Church in general has understood her mission for the
    World?

    To be able to give answer to this question, we first need to go back to the mission that the
    Lord Jesus gave the Church in Matthew 28:19 ‘Therefore go and make disciples of all
    nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,’ (New
    International Version). We can derive from this verse that the mission given to the Church by
    the Lord is to make disciples; persons who are called to follow Jesus and who have
    encountered God¡¯s reign in Jesus¡¯ preaching and actions and are willing to witness God¡¯s
    presence in their lives (Carter: 552). As a result, our mission is to be disciples who also make
    disciples. Though we don’t see the word ‘mission’ in this text, the word implies a purposeful
    movement or being sent from one place to another and this can be seen in the beginning of the
    verse ‘therefore go…’. This brings out two elements contained in the mission of the Church:
    movement and making disciples.

    From here I will say the mission of the church lies at two levels: the global and the local
    mission of the church.

     The global mission of the church: the Lord Jesus will say ‘…and you shall
    be [a]witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the
    earth” (Acts 1:8, NKJ). This is a call to the early church to move so as to spread the
    Good News they had received and this implies movement to bring the whole world to
    know Christ. The vision of the church in Revelation 7:9-10 pictures people of every
    race and tribe worshiping the Lord and thus shows a global outreach of the mission.
     The local mission of the church: the mission here consists of the church building up
    people that is making people disciples. The church must carter about the needs of the
    people surrounding her (relationships, evangelism, discipleship and training of
    leaders). These are the things that also characterized Jesus’ ministry in Galilee.

    Looking at all of these and the activities of the church today, I can say she has partially
    understood her mission for the world. Reason being that we have so many churches who
    sponsor missions in the world especially into the hinterlands and this is in accordance with the
    desire for God to see us move while spreading the gospel. But we also notice several local
    churches who have decided to center themselves in specific places and instead invite people
    to come to them. Thus concentrating more on the local mission of the church without ever
    sending people out of geographical outreach. It is sad to notice that this is exactly what the
    early church did by ignoring Acts 1:8 and remaining in Jerusalem, but were forced to obey by
    Acts 8:1.

    Question 2: Does your church fully play its role in the desire of multiplication of God?

    My church fully plays its role regarding the desire of God to see His people multiply. But are
    we really efficient in this role, I will say no. We carry out missions beyond our geographical
    area and even have some people sent in the missionary field (northern part of Cameroon).
    Still, the challenges we face are these people not turning out to be fruitful and also in some
    areas the lack of people who can remain behind to take care of the field. After an analysis, we
    came to realize that the main problem was the fact that people are not trained or well trained.
    Reason why now great emphasis is placed on training through the Bible school of the
    ministry.

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