223:. This is because the bishop of the diocese has the right to decide where churches will be planted, and the phenomenon of church planting sometimes ignores both courtesy and obedience to the local bishop. Traditionally the Catholic Church has used this method in its missionary work to establish the initial church of a region or colony with the goal of establishing a brand new diocese. However in the modern era the necessity of this method has declined partly due to the global nature of the modern church.
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in that leaders do not seek to act like indigenous persons, but simply train locals who train others within their (or closely related) people group. One popular interrelated element with T4T is called OBD (Obedience Based
Discipleship) but it has not met with acceptance from certain church planters.
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Within a very short time, newly planted churches are already starting new churches that follow the same pattern of rapid reproduction. Though the rate varies from place to place, Church
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who "coined the concept of 'people movements' to Christ," is credited as an early proponent of the kind of missionary work that underlies the Church
Planting Movement, by focusing his missionary work on converting groups of people ("groups, tribes, villages, ethnic groups") rather than individuals.
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Another method is for an existing church or church planting organization, known as the "mother" church, to provide the initial leadership, money, and personnel to start a new "daughter" or "mission" church. This may also be done by a group of organizations working together. The daughter church may
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is created that is integrated into an already established congregation. For a local church to be planted, it must eventually have a separate life of its own and be able to function without its parent body, even if it continues to stay in relationship denominationally or through being part of a
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developed the three-self formula of an indigenous missions policy: "they believed that young churches should be self-propagating, self-supporting, and self-governing from their inception."
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