MONTH 14 or 1st Month 2nd year
How and why do these teams grow a church?
Understanding the 5-Fold Grid system
By: Dr. Owen Weston DMin, PhD
Summary of Last month: Going to 2 services and “Satelliting”.
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How to double your crowd with 2 services or with starting a satellite campus
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Why 2 Services or sites:
Double your crowd,
double your venue,
double your options,
double your disciples– workers,
Reach a new “Demographic” and
Really conquering your city or area for Christ
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The right way of going to 2 Services or 2 sites:
with 6 month preparation of people, teams (worship, children and Front -door, Shock and awe,
etc).
24 to Double Schedule of Monthly Training
2st Year: 2nd Month
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What is the next big event on the calendar for which we can challenge our congregation to bring
friends?
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Plan the event (when, what, how, who)
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How to bring the crowds (from the congregation / marketing)
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Getting people involved (in production, in preparation)
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Getting the program ready (who is in charge and who is helping)
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Getting the people ready (love the visitors)
How and why do these teams grow a church?
Understanding the 5-Fold Grid system
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Let’s start with a model or diagram– a river of humanity flowing down to destruction.
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But all along this river are “Fishers of Men” -Churches reaching the lost out of this river.
1 problem we cannot use hooks??
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Each of these inverted funnels represent churches trying to fish for souls out of this river of
humanity.
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There are all different types and colors but the ones that grow large are doing it better!
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What are they doing ? Using teams of fishermen not just one fisherman.
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There are 7 teams that make a church successful.
Pastor Meals
Visits
Music
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Prayer
Preaching Altar Calls
4 TEAM
Banner
© O. Weston
LCD
Signs Drama Ambience Video
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3 TEAM
Parking
Marketing
4 Big Events
Baptisms
Baby Dedications Weddings Etc.
CITY
(SATELLITE)
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5 TEAM
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2 TEAM
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1 TEAM
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These teams need to be structured Biblically: so we use the Ephesians 4 model.
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People need to be plugged into ministry according to their Gifts and passion (area or ministry
they enjoy doing).
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The following chart shows how the Ephesians 4 model works (NOTE: the numbering and order
of teams Changes from 1st year to 2nd. In the first year it was starting teams that would excite
the congregation and show the community something new was happening at the church. Now
in the second year we need to put the teams in order it takes to “fish for men”.)
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The following blank chart is what each church should fill out for the teams in their churches (2x3
foot erasable chart is available for $25).
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Again notice that in the charts the “Fishers of Men” order of teams is different from the order
we used to get 24 to Double started.
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7 teams - banners from Cullman, (shown on Power Point).
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The key to growing this church…
1. Everyone discovers their gifts and passion
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Everyone signs up for a team of their choice and passion
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Everyone is trained and helped to use the gift God has given them
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Everyone helps you reach your family and friends
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WHEN DO WE START TRAINING THESE TEAMS????
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Next month
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BRING YOUR OUTREACH TEAM next month to this training.
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The goal of OUTREACH is to have every family pray for God to help them bring another family to
the church whom we can disciple.
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“Go into all the world and make disciples,” is the mandate from Jesus.
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It is: “ 1 Family + 1 = 2 Families”
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The goal of every family should be to find another family to win to the church so they can
become disciple!
SUMMARY OF MONTH 14
We looked at how to become churches who are “Fishers of men”.
We saw it took 7 teams to actively fish souls from the river of humanity.
These 7 teams are in the order so as to “fish for men” and take them through into becoming disciples of
Jesus Christ.
Finally we realized Paul in Ephesians 4, shows us how to structure church leadership in a 5-fold model
that proves to be not only Biblical but the most successful way of structuring the church.
As a church we not only need to have these 7 teams put into place in the next 12 months but we need
to structure them according to the Ephesian 5-Fold model of leadership.