How to accomplish the great commission by concentrating on causing local churches to multiply local churches /by Redford C. Tramell.

Tramell, Redford C,

How to accomplish the great commission by concentrating on causing local churches to multiply local churches /by Redford C. Tramell. - 1983. - vii, 122 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.

A Ministry Perspective Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Columbia Graduate School of Bible and Missions, Columbia, South Carolina, 1983. I. Great Challenge, Great Progress, Great Failure, Great Opportunities, Great Impediments, and a Sure Solution II. What It Means to Concentrate on Causing Local Churches to Multiply Local Churches III. The Bible Basis IV. How to Multiply Local Churches V. Benefits and Advantages of Concentrating on Causing Local Churches to Multiply Local Churches Virgin Islands What Christians and Churches in the United States Can Do Now Virgin IslandsI. Will You Obey the Great Commission? Appendix

Great Challenge -- Great Progress -- Great Failure -- Great Opportunities -- Great Impediments -- A Sure Solution. Concentrate -- Concentrate on Visible Local Churches Rather Than the Invisible Universal Church -- The Meaning of Ekklesia -- Always Think of a Church as a Congregation -- Local Churches that are Local Geographically and Socially to Each Person -- We Must Multiply Local Churches -- Cause Existing Local Churches to Multiply Local Churches. New Testament Examples and Teaching. Get Everyone Involved in Missions to Concentrate on It -- Insist on Working Through Existing Local Churches -- How to Work Through Existing Native Churches -- Insist That All Types of Missionaries to All Types of People Groups in All Parts of the World Use This Method -- All Types of Missionaries -- All Types of People Groups; Urban, Rural, and Tribal -- All parts of the World -- Conclusion. For the Missionary's Good -- For the Good of Existing Churches and for Ministering to Native Christians -- For Establishing Truly Indigenous Churches -- Self-governing -- Self-propogating -- Self-supporting -- For Succeeding in Evangelizing the World in Our Generation -- For Implementing the Church's Worldwide Mission as Stated in the Wheaton Declaration -- Conclusion. Adopt Definite Objectives -- Work at Increasing World Missions Vision -- Concentrate on Missionaries and Missions That Are Multiplying Local Churches -- Use World and REgional Mpas and Posters -- Adopt a Specific Community of an Unreached People -- Adopt a Native Local Church -- Pray -- Give Sixty Seconds for the Rest of the World -- Write to Missionaries and to Church Planting Missions -- Give Something Every Week -- Procure and Use Resources for Vision, Information, and Promotion -- Make Missions Literature Readily Available -- Sponsor an Annual Missions Conference -- Adopt a Program of Faith Giving to Missions -- Provide Prophets' Chambers -- Reach International Students and Immigrants -- Form a Missions Committee -- Visit the Foreign Field -- Give Through Your Local Church -- Conclusion. A Concise List of Principles -- Ten Churches in Twenty-One Years -- Personal Background.

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