 All right, so the recording is on. Good morning and welcome everybody to the class today I think this will be our final class in this course on Urban Church Planting After this I will just create the assessments three assessments for you. So and you can do that. It'll be in the works workspace Online and so basically November you just take time to do those assessments. They'll be simple and easy assessments and We'll be done with the course Okay, let's just take a moment to pray. Could somebody please pray with us and we will start Dave would you pray and could start So wonderful, so get what you need one of the strategies in our own life, you know Even through this hardest situation I just can't go to this. We have always been And learning From three seasons of tears I think that we open each one of our hearts and our ears for tears so that we can Have your understanding so that we can understand and and relate to our situation of tears Thank you. I pray for our pastor And I thank you Amen, thank you. All right, so Last class that's yesterday we Talked about Some, you know, we just looked at some thoughts on the post quarantine church that is What would what are some of the things to keep in mind? as the church moves out of this quarantine phase that We were forced to be in the last almost almost two years now on year into years that You know, and what are some things to keep in mind as we move out? Out of that and how does in terms of Church work church planting and ministry some things to keep in mind. So We did that yesterday and my plan for today is just to quickly review the entire course The main sections that we covered Just to refresh ourselves put it all together and then we will Wrap up with that. So I'm just going to do a quick review from the very beginning of the things we covered in this course All right, and there's any questions or things you want to discuss, you know, please feel free to do that So in the introduction section in the course, I just shared a little bit of my own personal journey We talked about the fact that the Holy Spirit must be a leader in Plot in urban church planting work or starting a ministry. So he's the director for our ministry He's the one who would lead us and we follow his directions We talked about what are the definition? What is the definition objective of planting a church or starting a ministry? You know, we want to establish communities that are self-sustaining and that will you know be able to Establish and host God's presence disciple new believers and influence their region and multiply More churches, that's what we are Working towards and whenever you plant a church, it's with the purpose of multiplication In the very beginning we said we need to get God's heart for our cities Even though cities will be very big and very very complicated a lot of challenges But we need to look at our cities with the heart of God and be Compassionate towards the people in our cities and be praying and interceding for our cities right and then We also said that as we look at our cities urban centers We look at the natural dynamics What is going on, you know in the city? So be a little familiar with the background history of the city But the political administration the economy the demographics What are the challenges the social economic issues and several other key things that you can look at? In trying to understand what's going on in the city and you know keep in touch with the news What's happening locally in your city or in the city where you're going to start of work? Understand what's going to happen be in touch with those things so it gives you a feel of the city You know what to pray for you know what needs to address and also helps us develop strategies to address areas of need And we also mentioned the spiritual dynamics of urban centers So we understand that the Satan is at work also in the city Trying to do his work of stealing killing and destroying and Influencing the church and and some of this is expressed through Things that we can observe culture or the Moral values and the struggles the problems the city You know a lot of those things are behind Demonic parts are behind a lot of the evil and the wickedness that we see in the city And so having understood that we saw that in the book of acts There was a lot of emphasis on Reaching cities and we looked at different things that happened in the book of acts as I'm starting from Jerusalem They moved on into Samaria and to other parts of many of the cities Paul and his Paul and Barnabas on the fish first missionary journey targeted many important cities in their time they visited Places like Athens and then Corinth and Thessalonica and Many cities and eventually Paul was in Rome as well and impacted Rome. So cities have been part of God's work or you know, the work of God was taking place in cities, right for the very beginning and so We need to be You know interested and also working towards either planting churches or starting ministries in our urban centers Then in section two We started talking about the practical side of ministry. You know, we talk about how do you get started? Yeah, you need to have a core team. We talked about how to choose people to be part of the core team We can start preparing from a distance as we try to understand the city We can you know, we could get information about the city Pray think through on certain things find out people you may already know in the city Then you really relocate to go into that city Eventually I start work there We also plan for finances. There are different ways that we could plan for finances whether it's personal or support that we receive We plan for our personal needs because you know, if you're with your family Your family also needs to be taken care of while you are doing the work of the Lord You plan for the legal and administrative side of things as well because eventually You're going to create an entity for the church or the Christian ministry We talked about doing the survey how you can survey the city Try to understand what's happening Select the area that you want to start to work on depending on your target audience who are the people you're going to target We talked about, you know getting to know your launch area become familiar with areas that you can reach The preparation you may have some pre-launch meeting so we get to know that you are there and you're going to do some ministry there You may engage in a period of time of worship prayer intercession You also get to know your target audience your primary target audience, you know, they're where they spend their time. What are their needs? You connect with people whom God may have already prepared for you in that place and Share your vision. They may come and be a part of the court team And then you identify your launch location where you're going to launch the church or the ministry Make sure it's accessible certain things we spoke about here and and other places that May be useful as you do the ministry An alternative, of course, is to start at home. You can start as a house search model and start from there So then you step into the launch phase you get the work started You know, there are many different ways to launch. You could do a quiet launch or you could do a big Big launch. Yeah, how you want to do it some things to keep in mind if you're doing your first church service Make sure you plan for follow-up with people when they come Then you went into strategies or urban evangelism or urban missions, you know different ways that you could Reach people of course we need to keep all our methods as spirit led legal and ethical and we don't want to break the law in any way we Develop and I identify and develop strategies maybe by age groups maybe by areas of need in the city different spheres of activity making use of tools technology Man ultimately the focus is to disciple and quit believers So we talked about different strategies for age groups, you know, we think about children the youth I can think about Young adults married families senior citizens different things that can be done for these different age groups Strategies that address specific needs in the city and think about these needs and how we can address them My strategies addressing different spheres of activity in the city as well so Places where people are engaging or you know spending most of their time in the workplace Can think of ways to impact and influence them and then of course use tools use the technology that we have and we can reach out to people Then we talk about the seven mountain assignment, which which is important when you talk about urban centers where we think Very strategically on different Areas that we can reach how do we penetrate these Seven spheres of society And how do we basically equip believers to go and make a difference? All right, so we talked about the challenge the process that we need We need to be able to model principles biblical principles We need to let our light shine by good works that we do And we need to pray spiritually Bring about spiritual transformation So we need to prepare believers prepare their heart prepare spiritually with knowing biblical principles And of course they need to be skilled to go and work in those areas Then people believers can be positioned in those areas in different ways to make a difference Then as the work grows we talked about growth and consolidation as the Church plant or the ministry grows understand that there'll be stages of growth And so we talked about various stages and you know what what we should be doing In those stages. There's a pioneering stage There's the organizational structural stage There's a pastoral or team ministry stage. There's the Training stage and there's in an apostolic function stage. That means the church or the plant that you've You've you've the church you've planted there will grow through these stages and we need to be aware so that we You know, we understand what's happening and correctly Guide the growth of the work eventually we become self-sustaining work And then we can think about multiplication and branching as well We can plant more congregations or open more locations in the same city We can branch out into other cities and towns and then lastly we looked at some of the different church growth models are out there or The way different churches have grown around the world And we just highlighted some of those things So that was in the practical side then we spent some time talking about the spiritual aspects Which is you know, we really Was engaged in prayer. We understand that the real battle was also spiritual battle So we pray We deal with satan was blinding the minds of people holding people and bondage and trying to hinder the proclamation of the gospel We deal with those powers and He also tries to weaken the church by infiltration So as a church we have responsibility in spiritual responsibility We use our god-given authority and our weapons to deal with these demonic powers We pray and we exercise spiritual authority to see spiritual transformation over our regions our cities We pray Pray for the lost we mentioned some points here on how to pray for the lost and also how to You know prepare ourselves for spiritual warfare We always operate from a place of the finished work of christ on the cross And that's how we engage spiritually and exercise our spiritual authority To open prison door spiritually speaking to see people released and brought in to the kingdom of god In addition to praying you must also proclaim the uncompromised gospel with the power of god We proclaim the full gospel We do reason we reason and demonstrate And we also break controlling powers by the proclamation of the gospel So we pray We proclaim but we must also prepare god's people equip the saints to go out and make a difference We prepare them with the word of god and we prepare them by Helping them manifest or move in the supernatural and be salt and light wherever god has placed them so we To you know equip them to do this Then we also understand that we must also partner with other churches in the city So we can't do this alone We are in partnership with other churches and ministries so we pray We proclaim the gospel We prepare the people and we partner with other churches In the city and that's how spiritually we engage to make a difference Lastly in the last section we talked about the personal life of the church planter Now that You know you need to recognize that god has called you to this kind of work to plant a church or to Start a ministry You know requires that certain grace To do that and we mentioned some of the indicators of grace We said some of we should avoid some of the wrong reasons to plant a church And you could either start on your own or you can work with an existing church or ministry Just to plant the church And you know we talked about the pros and cons and things that we need to be careful of Then you're working with an existing organization You also talked about personal preparation things that you could do personally to be prepared to Go out and plant a church or start a christian ministry in the city These are some of the things that will be required from us Then as you make the journey, you know, here are some things to keep in mind don't quit be strong and You know make sure that what you do is passed on so that the work can continue Long after you're gone So these were the four main sections that we covered in this course It's a very practical course and usually what we do is I tell people to You know do an assignment where they actually take all of these things and think about You know You know carry this out In their minds or on paper of planting a work In a certain city in the world But and then we do presentations in class But now since this thing is online and you know, it's a little different So I kind of skipped that kind of exercise and said I'll just give you some practical scenarios in your questions to work on and And you can you know just envision those scenarios and apply what you've learned to address Those kinds of situations. So that's I'll give you some assessments along that line um To just as part of the evaluation, but I think the real real real Benefit is when you take these things and then begin to actually Work them use them in your ministry Now when you plant a church or when you start a Christian ministry, that's when you know, these things will really come handy will be useful As you begin to do the work. So keep these notes with you and go back to them Especially when you're getting ready To start a work or when you're doing a work go back reference these notes Think of ways you can apply it to the work You are doing or going to do And make use of it Okay, uh any thoughts any questions? On this course So far So the plan now is You know, so this is end of october. So during the month of november And there will be no classes What I will do is just keep an eye out for those notifications that come through google classroom What i'm going to do is i'm going to create three assessments That will be more of an application of the things we learned to Scenarios So then you could just That'll be a way of assessing your understanding of the content Although the real learning happens when you start using this content in your life in ministry So in the month of november, it'll just be a time for you to do these three assessments And uh, yeah, that would be it All right But at any time Feel free to email me if you have any questions on this or sometimes the future Just remember that we are here As you start doing your charts and touch plant or ministry or work And if you need any help or guidance, you know, you're most welcome to reach out to us And we'll be more than happy to Share whatever we know whatever we've learned With you to help you in your personal journey All right So let's close in prayer May I ask Thomas to please Close the class in prayer prayer and then we will dismiss I'm sure past Southern Jesus name we thank you for the wonderful day lord. Thank you for this wonderful subject Father as we learned many things Father be Useful as we do the ministry as we plan the church as we're doing the ministry father Let this course will be useful father. We thank you father. Plus each and everyone in this classroom But each and everyone will be used in your hand mightily And let everyone will be the church planter in urban city far Let your kingdom grow let your let your kingdom go further. We thank you We praise you for your mercy. We love you. Praise your father We give you glory and honor in Jesus Amen. Amen. Thank you each one. Thank you all for being part of this course and It's been our privilege to journey with you and I definitely look forward to you know the other courses we have finished romans and then We also look forward to next semester. We have a lot of practical things You talk about technology media and technology and ministry and other things So it's been a good time joining with you and look forward to More classes together. Okay. Enjoy the rest of the day. Thank you so much. God bless. Bye now. Bye Bye now. God bless