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01 Can We Take Church Multiplication Too Far?
02 What to Do with Children During Worship?
03 How to Help Volunteer Workers Persevere?
04 Who Should Mentor New Church Leaders?
05 Dealing with Rusty Denominational Structures
06 Classroom Teaching Compared with Mentoring
07 Use a Menu of Optional Studies to Train Leaders
08 Starting Small Groups
09 Using Stories and Skits to Teach More Effectively
10 Interactive Body Life Between Churches
11 Ministries Required of churches in the New Testament
12 Missionary Team Building
13 Identifying New Shepherds
14 Rethinking Christian Education
15 Regional Coordinators for New Church Work
16 Nine Freedoms of Christian Churches
17 Mentoring Autocratic Leaders
18 Writing Study Materials
19 Assertive Mentoring
20 Church Planting Myths
21 & 22 Developing a Cellular Church Body
23 Applications of Christian Mentoring
24 Train New Leaders like Jesus did
25 Integrating Truth and Task
26 Let Children Participate in Worship
27 Relief Work Guidelines
28 Integrating Mission Theory & Practice
29 Working with other Religions
30 Self-Supporting Workers
   See also the supplement Mobilize Many Bi-vocational Leaders
31 Balanced Church Body Life
32 Work through a 'Son of Peace'
33 Empowering New Leaders
34 General Guidelines to Mentor Leaders
35 Church Planting Steps, by Chouderie
36 Partnerships with Foreign Churches or Agencies
37 Shift from Training Only by Lecture by Adding Mentoring
38 Going Two by Two
39 Five-fold Ministries (Ephesians 4:11-12)
40 Alternatives to Teaching or Preaching by Monologue
41 Witnessing for Christ in Other Cultures
42 Women Mentoring Women
43 Factors Limiting Church Planting Movements, and Remedies
44 Train Church Planters and Leaders in the Biblical Way
45 What cell groups & simple churches should do during worship
46 Enabling Change in Established Churches
47 'Church' in Scripture also Denotes a Cluster of Tiny Churches
48 Multiply House Churches in your City
     (if folks won't come to your church, take the church to them!)
49 Flexible Church Leadership
50 Using Vernacular Language
51 Using Simple Maps to plan strategy and cast vision
52 Timely Reporting of Progress and Problems
53  Bible Translation Movements, with Pioneer Church Planting
54 Take Training for Christian Work More Seriously
55 Conserving new believers
56 Experience the Presence of Christ in Churches
57 Balance Divergent Aspects of Vital Ministries
58 State Control_of_Churches
59 Sophisticated_Dependency--relying on dollars

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Gleaned from responses to field workers
by mentors  Galen Currah, Ed Aw and George Patterson
Topical Index

Applications of Christian mentoring, 23
Autocratic leaders, working with, 17
Balancing church body life: avoid overemphasizing a pet ministry, 31
Balancing divergent aspects of vital ministries, 57
Body life between churches: Interaction on regional level, 10
Body life: integrating the five-fold basic ministries (Eph. 4), 39
Cell church in cities, 48
Cells: starting small groups, 08
Cellular church body developed,
Part 1, 21
Part 2, 22
Change enabled in churches, 46
Child of peace: find who can connect you with folks in a community, 32
Children in worship, 02
Children participating in discipling and worship, 26
Christian Education: rethinking basic assumption for better results, 14
Church body life between congregations on a regional level, 10
Church body life developed during worship, 45
Church body life: balance by no overemphasising one “pet” ministry, 31
Church body life: balance divergent aspects of the same ministry, 57
Church body life: integrating the five-fold basic ministries, 39
Church leaders need mentoring: who should do it?, 04
Church ministries: menu of vital activities, 11
Church multiplication, spontaneous, 01
Church multiplication, guidelines for a church planting movement, 64
Church planters freed from bad traditions, 16
Church planters trained, 44
Church planting: best starting places, 63
Church planting: guidelines for a church planting movement, 64
Church planting movements sustained, 43
Church planting myths, 20
Church planting steps, 35
Church planting team building, 12
Church planting trainers trained, 44
Church reproduction, 01
Churches compared to rabbits and elephants, 48
Churches in an area called “church” in New Test.: a potent force, 47
Churches: enabling needed changes, 46
Churches: freedom from bad traditions, 16
Churches moved underground, 62
Churches: sending churches’ role in changing times, 60
Classroom instruction compared with mentoring, 06
Congregational body life, 10
Coordinators for new churches, 15
Cultures: evangelism and church planting in new fields, 41
Curriculum: integrating truth and task, 25
Curriculum: mentoring compared to classroom, 06
Curriculum: writing pastoral study materials, 18
Denominations: dealing with obsolete structures, 05
Dependency in its sophisticated form: relying too much on $$, 59
Development (mercy ministry), 27
Educational philosophy: rethinking basic assumptions for better results, 14
Empowering new shepherds, 33
Evangelism in other cultures, 41
Evangelism: going two by two, 38
Evangelism: son of peace, who introduces you to folks in a community, 32
Experience the Presence of Christ in gatherings of believers, 56
Five-fold ministries (Ephesians 4:11-12) integrated, 39
Flexibility: avoid driving tent pegs too deep, 61
Freedoms for new churches, 16
Homiletics: alternatives to monologue, 40
Identifying new Shepherds, 13
Integrating mission theory and practice, 28
Integrating the five-fold basic ministries of Ephesians 4:11-12, 39
Integrating truth and task to train leaders, 25
Interaction between churches, 10
Interactive teaching, 40
Inter-church cooperation, 10
Language:  use vernacular for better translation and church planting, 50
Leadership kept flexible, 49
Leadership training: classroom compared with mentoring, 06
Leadership training: integrating truth and task, 25
Leadership training: mentoring like Jesus did, 24
Leadership training: menu-based, 07
Leadership training: shifting to mentoring, 37
Leadership training: vital ministries menu, 11
Legalism: new churches freed, 16
Liberation of new churches from bad traditions, 16
Linear curriculum: limitations for training pastors, 07
Man (son) of peace: one who introduced you to folks in his community, 32
Management and partnerships, 36
Maps used to plan strategy and cast vision, 51
Mentoring autocratic leaders, 17
Mentoring church leaders: who should do it,  04
Mentoring compared with Classroom, 06
Mentoring new leaders like Jesus did, 24
Mentoring with purpose, 19
Mentoring: applications for vital Christian activities, 23
Mentoring: applications, 23
Mentoring: general guidelines, 34
Mentoring: shifting to, 37
Menu based curriculum, 07
Menu of vital ministries, 11
Ministries: menu of vital church activities,  11
Mission theory integrated with practice, 28
Missionary relations with churches in changing times, 60
Missionary team building, 12
Multiplication of churches, 01
Myths about church planting, 20
New churches freed from bad traditions, 16
New shepherding elders identified as pastoral leaders, 13
Non-Christian religions:  working with, 29
Partnerships in mission, 36
Pastoral training: classroom compared with mentoring, 06
Pastoral training: integrating truth and task, 25
Pastoral training: mentoring like Jesus did, 24
Pastoral training: menu-based, for new trainees, 07
Pastoral training: shifting to mentoring, 37
Pastoral training: vital ministries menu, 11
Pastors, new, empowered as shepherds, 33
Pastors, new, identified, 13
Persecution: churches moved underground, 62
Preaching: alternatives to monologue, 40
Presence of Christ experienced in gatherings of believers, 56
Purposeful mentoring, 19
Qualifications for church leaders, 13
Regional coordinators for new church work, 15
Relief work improved when linked to church planting, 27
Religions, working with, 29
Reporting: timely information aids church planting, 52
Reproducing churches, spontaneous multiplication of churches, 01
Reproducing churches, guidelines for a church planting movement, 64
Secrecy: churches moved underground, 62
Self-support issues, 30
Self-supported tentmakers kept on the job, 03
Sermon: powerful alternatives to the traditional monologue, 40
Shifting from classroom to mentoring, 37
Skits: how to teach with brief demonstrations, 09
Small groups started, 08
Small groups: developing a cellular church body,
Part 1, 21
Part 2, 22
State control of churches 58
Stories and skits, teaching with brief dramatizations and demonstrations, 09
Strategy planning using simple maps, 51
Teaching with stories and skits, 09
Team building, for missionaries, 12
Teamwork: going two by two (or more) to evangelize, etc., 38
Tentmaker: self-support issues, 30
Tentmakers: volunteers kept on the job, 03
Traditions: avoid driving tent pegs too deep, 61
Traditions that cripple new churches, 16
Translation: Bible translation movements, pioneer church planting, 53
Vision casting by using simple maps, 51
Volunteer workers kept on the job, 03
Volunteer workers: self-support issues, 30
Witnessing in other cultures, 41
Women mentoring women, 42
Worship: what to do with children,  02
Writing pastoral study materials, 18


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