Church-Planting Revolution by Winfield Bevins

Author:Winfield Bevins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seedbed Publishing
Published: 2017-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

THE DNA OF A NEW CHURCH

Mission is the DNA of the church.

—William O’Brien

If you were to walk to your car right now and open up the hood, you would be confronted with a mass of metal, wiring, plastic, tubes, and valves. For the average person, this jumbled mess represents the driving force of the car: the engine. But to the trained eye, this overwhelming conglomeration of stuff represents intricate relationships that form the whole of the engine. Each part plays a role, and if one part is missing, the engine no longer functions at full capacity or at all! In fact, many of these elements in engines are universal to all brands of engines and they are crucial to an engine’s function. In the same way, the whole of a church is formed by numerous pieces that function as one body. While each church may be unique in its own right, all churches share certain pillars that constitute a thriving body.

As I have said throughout the book, it will take all kinds of churches to reach all kinds of people: large churches, small churches, traditional churches, nontraditional churches, churches being planted on college campuses, prisons, storefronts, coffeehouses, and homes. Although contexts may change, I do believe that there are common biblical patterns or DNA that new churches hold in common. In this chapter, we will explore the essential, replicable elements that are common to healthy new churches. I have primarily drawn these seven essentials from the book of Acts—which is our very first church-planting manual—and from my personal experience and research in studying church-planting movements, especially the Wesleyan revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 2

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