Biblical Principles of Church Planting

Biblical Principles of Church Planting
Objectives:
1. To help students learn what the Bible talks about Church Planting & Growth
2. To see how these principles will be relevant to each one’s context.
A. The Pattern of the Church

o The Church we read about in the New Testament was the model for all future growth of
the church.
o When we study the beginning of the church we learn there are several key principles,
which can be used successfully today to build the church in any culture or place.
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Principles
1. A Group of believers is responsible for taking the gospel to its own
community.
o The disciples followed Jesus' command to begin in Jerusalem to preach the gospel.
o They not only preached the gospel but also witnessed the gospel by their life style
(Acts 2:42-47).
o Individuals can witness the gospel in their community, but the most lasting and
effective witness is through a body of believers living their new faith in love and joy
in their community.
o The result of believers’ manner of living was that “the Lord added to their number daily
those who were being save.”
o A strong local church was established in Jerusalem.
o Then the church began to grow quickly in the surrounding areas: Judea, Samaria, and
within a short time to the nearby provinces.
2. The Gospel was preached to the unsaved where they were

o The apostles did not rent a hall or confine themselves to a building where they preached
the message of salvation.
o They went out everyday and met together in the temple courts (Acts 2:46).
o The temple courts were the places where its gentiles gathered together.
o The principle expressed here is that they took the gospel where the sinners were.
o They did not wait for the sinners to come to their local group, but they went out.
o They never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is Christ (Acts
5:42).
3. The New Testament Church identified and sent out those whom God called
to take the gospel to their areas.
o While it is the responsibility of every believer to witness in his or her community, there
are those who have the ability and call to go out to new areas.
o For example, Paul and Barnabas were set apart by the Holy Spirit from the church at
Antioch (Acts 13:1-3).
o This talks about the cross-cultural ministry of the apostles.
4. The New Testament Evangelism was directed toward Adults

o The New Testament pattern was preaching to win family leaders who would bring
then the whole household to Christ.
o For example, Peter preached to the house of Cornelius (Acts 10); Paul to the Philippian
Jailer (Acts 16:31-33); Paul preached to some businesswomen in Philippi-Lydia with all
members of her house hold (Acts 16:14-15).
o Then we see the house hold of Stephanus (1 Cor. 1:16), Onesiphorus (2 Tim. 1:16) and
Philemon (Phile. 2).
o As they won the adults, they brought their whole family.
5. The New Believers were integrated into the life of the body of the local
church.
o People who accepted the message of salvation through Christ were immediately
identified with the body of Christ - the church (Acts 2:41).
o They were taught by the apostles and nurtured in prayer and fellowship with the other
members of the body (2:42).
6. The Apostles Preached Salvation Through Faith in Christ, and Not a

System of Religious Beliefs or Ceremonies.
o The believers of the early church were scattered around their own world and soon were
preaching to many different peoples.
o The apostles preached salvation through belief in Jesus as
the savior.
o They did not preach to set forth a new system of beliefs.
They preached with the demonstration of the power of
God to meet the needs of the new believers.
o The church grew first in Jerusalem.
o Thousands of people became believers in a short time.
o Most of them were Jews.
o Even though they followed Jesus, they were still Jews; consequently, they believed they
should continue to follow the ceremonial rules of Jewish worship (Acts 5:20; 24:18).
o But when gentiles began to become believers, the Jewish believers insisted to follow
Jewish customs.
o When the problem began, there met a special meeting of the leaders of the church and
the Holy Spirit used the apostles to change the Jewish believers’ minds (Acts 11:1-18;
15:1-20).
o Otherwise the gentiles would have believed that salvation rested in part on the
observance of religious rituals.
o It was God’s plan, however, that all believers are to be baptized in to one body- whether
Jew or gentile, slave or free (1 Cor. 12:13).

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Biblical Principles of Church Planting

A. The Pattern of the Church

2. The Gospel was preached to the unsaved where they were

4. The New Testament Evangelism was directed toward Adults

6. The Apostles Preached Salvation Through Faith in Christ, and Not a

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