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What are "Rules of Engagement?"

From Answers.com:  "A directive issued by competent military authority that delineates the limitations and circumstances under which forces will initiate and prosecute combat engagement with other forces encountered."

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Whether or not “The Gospel” can be narrowed down to a presentation or a “Plan of Salvation,” is of secondary concern to this post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Surpassing 4 Generations of Disciple Making Disciples in less than a year.



What does that mean? It means that disciples were made who made disciples who made other disciples who in turn made others and that all generations continue to make disciples. How did we pull it off? We didn’t,… Continue

I had an interesting talk with a man from Loja, Ecuador yesterday. We were discussing, without him know it, Mdna (Missional DNA). Missional, in this sense is simply living in such a way as to help others, sending the Gospel and ourselves to their turf, and demonstrating a faith that actually does what it preaches. The psychological / social make up of the Ecuadorian’s does not lend it self to helping their own kind…

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My Interpretation is based on the following parsing of the the NT Greek in Matthew 28:





Πορευθέντες

πορεύομαι: to go

verb, aorist, passive, participle, plural, nominative, masculine



μαθητεύσατε

μαθητεύω: to make a disciple

verb, aorist, active, imperative, second person, plural



βαπτίζοντες

βαπτίζω: to baptize

verb, present, active, participle, plural, nominative, masculine



διδάσκοντες

διδάσκω: to teach

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A friend of mine recently said, "Instead of going out with a view to plant churches we should plant ourselves in the mission of the Kingdom of God and wait for Christ to grow his church in our space."

I was immediately struck by the power of that statement and started to search the scriptures for a biblical warrant to "plant" churches. I found none.

Should "Planting" churches be part of a missional vocabulary or not? What say you?

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