A Spiritual Preparation Guide to Basic Training for
Church Planters
Summary
Straight Street for Church
Planters is a component of the Mentoring Team of the North American Mission
Board, SBC.
Each unit in Straight Street begins with a
desired learning outcome, which corresponds with the unit by the same name
in the Basic Training for Church Planters participant manual. Listed are the
learning outcomes for each Straight Street unit and the corresponding Basic
Training unit:
Desired outcome from this unit:
In this section on strategic planning the church planting team
members are introduced to the big picture – the orchard, which is the kingdom of
God. A Vision Tree graphic is used to depict the kingdom of God; participants
are challenged to think beyond planting just their church, but to see their
church plant as a church planting church that will reproduce disciples, leaders,
new units, and new churches.
Desired outcome from this unit:
Participants will reflect on how prayer has shaped their lives and how their
prayers and the prayers of intercessors can shape the future of the church
plant.
Desired outcome from this unit:
Participants will identify key Scriptures that pertain to the kingdom of God and
the vision that God has given them for the church plant.
Desired outcome from this unit:
Participants will identify the values behind the functions of the early church
and to discover their own personal core values.
Desired outcome from this unit:
Participants gain an understanding of how God has gifted them, and how He might
use their giftedness, uniqueness, background, and life experiences to reach a
specific focus group of people.
Desired outcome from this unit:
For participants to know what God would have
them to do now based upon the things that He has recently convicted, convinced,
and corrected them about.
Desired outcome from this unit:
For participants to understand that Jesus must
be the central focus of their lives and to recognize that God has prepared
others to come alongside them in the church plant so that they will not be
alone.
Desired outcome from this unit:
For participants to reflect on the lostness of man and how God desires to use
them to lead lost people to Christ. The participants will also consider their
level of evangelistic training and their understanding of evangelistic
approaches. The participants will be challenged to share their faith using an
approach of their choosing.
Desired outcome from this unit:
For participants to discover or be reminded that true worship always focuses on
God.
Learning Approach
"The learning approach for Straight Street is self-study. The guide may
prove to be most beneficial to the church planter or member of a church planting team who has a mentor to guide and help them to reach
their full potential. Please visit the NAMB Church Planting Group Web
Site for more information about mentoring or if you do not have a mentor
but desire one. A mentor selection guide is available at the Web Site for
your use at
www.churchplantingvillage.net.
The content of Straight Street emphasizes one or two learning components
or activities from Basic Training for Church Planters.
Straight Street was not designed to be an exclusive or exhaustive authority
on any of the subject matters contained in the guide. We acknowledge
that much more could be written on each of the units, but again the desire
was to highlight one or two learning components from Basic Training for
Church Planters. A bibliography of suggested reading is included for
those who wish to gain further insights into church planting. The
participant will note that some units contain more content and
activities than others. That design is intentional.
Each unit contains three sets of questions that serve to guide the
participant through the study materials.
Those questions are:
What is God saying to me in His Word?
What is God saying to me through others?
What is it that I am supposed to be doing?
Within each of the three sets of questions are a series of reflective
questions that require some type of action from the participant.
Normally, these reflective questions will require a written response from
the participant. The biblical content for most of the units is from
Acts chapter 9, which relates to Saul’s encounter with Jesus Christ.
Scriptures outside of Acts 9 are used on occasion for adding additional
emphasis or to expound upon related principle."
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