Explain the importance of viewing churches

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1. Describe the two main ways that healthy church movements can bear fruit.

2. Explain the importance of viewing churches as living organisms instead of defining them by their institutional features.

3. How does the emphasis on obedience to Jesus in church planting help to avoid legalism?

4. Based on what you have learned in this course, explain why ongoing church planting is essential for the kingdom of God to bring lasting transformation to society?

5. Choose a letter to fill in each blank in the best way. In church planting movements, instead of missionaries, __________ ( a, b, c, d ) leaders are relied upon to __________ ( e, f, g, h ) __________ ( i, j, k, l ) churches.

a. spontaneous e. transform i. hub
b. trained f. multiply j. holistic
c. optimistic g. preserve k. daughter
d. cross-cultural h. indigenize l. existing

6. ___ One reason church planting movements multiply so rapidly (choose the best one):

a. The gospel flows along family connections.
b. One mother church tries to plant as many daughter churches as possible.
c. Natural leaders are selected, who are not bogged down by training, so growth is spontaneous.
d. Carefully allocated foreign funding is contextualized.
e. Talk about obedience is avoided so as to attract a steady stream of newcomers.
f. None of the above, since they are God's work and Christians can do little to start or stop them.

7. ___ Which definition of the church is not mentioned in this lesson?

a. The presence of Jesus among His people called out as a spiritual family to pursue His mission on this planet.
b. A group of believers in Christ dedicated to obeying His commands.
c. Jesus Christ being followed, loved, and obeyed.
d. The earthly form of the kingdom of God advancing kingdom projects.

8. Place these in order of priority for multiplying churches seeking to train believers to obey Christ (put numbers 1 through 4 in the blanks below with 1 being the highest priority).

___ The life examples and practices found in the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistles.
___ Local wisdom that is contextualized in well-known proverbs.
___ Patterns of obedience tested and proven by the church traditions of the apostolic missionaries who start mother churches.
___ New Testament commands.

9. ___ True or False. Although churches are living organisms, they usually need to be "cultivated" to bear fruit since they sometimes fail to do so spontaneously.

10. ___ True or False. If done in accordance with New Testament commands, funding from foreign sources can help church planting movements get started in some poor situations.

11. Choose the answer below that is least true according to Keller. Churches serve their society like salt when they ______________.

a. serve their city as a faithful cultural presence
b. prevent society from deteriorating
c. are invigorating and shaping society
d. bring about the ultimate triumph of God's kingdom

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