Rural Church and Church Dynamics Events for pastors and leaders

CHURCH DYNAMICS

Church Dynamics, a series of one day regional events for church leaders, invites pastors, along with 6-12 leaders from each church, for adult-based experiential learning. These events integrate application for Pentecostal, contextualized church multiplication. The interactive discussion and activities provide a positive atmosphere for learning and healthy growth. Church leaders who apply these principles often experience church growth from 20% or more each year.

Goal: Rural Churches Reaching their Communities as Jesus Commanded in Acts 1:8:

• those close–family and neighbors

• those near–neighboring communities

• those far–the nations

Setting: Discussion with Experiential Learning

The Church Dynamics methods create an atmosphere for contemplation, discussion, and application; awakening shared participant enthusiasm, focusing on directed activities that challenge personal experiences, and encourage spiritual engagement for the local church.,

Encouragement

Why do we need to multiply and mobilize church ministries?

A growing number of people moving to rural communities increases the need for rural churches to provide redemptive communities that reach the lost. Almost 60 million live in 3.8 million square miles in America. Further, the world needs missionaries sent from the rural church to share the gospel message to the hurting, near and far without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Jesus calls every believer to become involved in multiplying the church. Rural communities need an army of men and women, young and old, from every cultural background, who love them, and bring the joy filled gospel for transformation. Today, researchers say the number of people becoming ‘nones’ is the fastest growing religious group in America. Together, we can become part of a movement that changes that trajectory.

How can this be accomplished?

1. Upward Focus: Embrace spiritual as we embrace the Lord and pray for the lost and for the Lord of the harvest to send labors.

2. Outward Focus: Employ active involvement in the lives community people demonstrating in word and deed Jesus love for them.

3. Inward Focus: Engage the church organizationally for each person to accomplish God’s created design in their life.

4. Forward Focus: Expand the outreach of the church from generation to generation, to surrounding communities and to the world.

Pentecostal educator and author Gary Tyra in The Holy Spirit in Mission wrote, “Local church leaders can encourage church members to routinely gather for prayer with other like-minded believers eager to experience ongoing empowerment from the Holy Spirit to live missionally faithful lives for Christ.”

To schedule or participate in a Church Dynamics event in your area, email: dwight@ruraladvancement.com.

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PART 1: FOCUS UPWARD & OUTWARD: Loving God and Community

30/60/90 Goal:

Three events a year significant outreach events per year:

Praying for three people for the first 30 days
Praying and building relationships with three people for the second 30 days
Praying, building relationships, and inviting three people the third 30 days

Experiential learning components:

Jesus loved the rural communities
First steps for multiplication

God is the author of transformation: prayer in the Spirit is key
Believers invite people when preparations accommodate their reservations.
Planting precedes harvest.
Inviting people to church provides an opportunity to know God and become part of a redemptive community of faith.

PART 2: FOCUS UPWARD: Spirituality

Goal: One hour of corporate prophetic prayer for every 10 people in the church. Experiential learning components:

Personal Pentecost
Church Pentecost
Maintaining Fervency
Spiritual Commenary Influence: practicing prophetic prayer

PART 3: FOCUS OUTWARD: Assisting in Contextualized Multiplication

Goal: 3-4 Annual Big Days: Church as individuals, and as a congregation develop a contextualized message in Big Days. A growth goal of 10-15%.

Experiential learning components:

Community Culture
Individual Values
Loving the Body
Loving the Lost

PART 4: FOCUS INWARD: Developing Leadership

Goal: 10% Add one new different leader for every ten people

Experiential learning components:

Rural leaders have someone who follows them. (If no one reports to them they do not

count in the numbers.)

Rural leadership recruiting
Developing leaders
Every leader multiplying

PART 5: FOCUS INWARD (INTER-PERSONAL): Volunteerism

Goal: 30% active involvement; three unique volunteers for every ten people who attend church,—in addition to the leaders (totaling 40% involvement).

Experiential learning components:

The importance of volunteers
Preparing for multiplication
Advancing the church
Blessing volunteers

PART 6: ASSIMILATION

Goal: Assimilate 20-30 percent

Experiential learning components:

Track guests
Cooperate with what God accomplishes
Developing relational systems
Creating new opportunities

PART 7: FOCUS FORWARD: Expanding the Labors for the Harvest

Goal: send 3% a year to the harvest field, forward goals

Experiential learning components:

Prayer
Discipleship
Preparation
Sending

SPECIAL FOCUSED OPTIONAL MODULES WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

PART 8: FINANCES

Goal: Finances prepared to bless others; 10-15% annual increase

Experiential learning components:

God’s financial plan
Finances vison
Kingdom investments

PART 9: PREACHING

Goal: Preaching that multiplies and mobilizes leaders

Experiential learning components:

Preaching like Jesus
Preaching like Acts
Preaching today for Biblical results
1. relationships in preaching
2. sermon structure (intro, biblical content, application, response)
3. Expectations