exponential east 2015 - bonus session: asian american church planting

EAST MEETS WESTASIAN AMERICAN

CHURCH PLANTING

Ray Chang & DJ Chuang ReGenerant Network

ReGenerant.org

WHY PLANT?

Ques%on of the Day

Has the Church Lost Touch with the Lost World?

Missionary: John 20:21

•  America has entered a post Chris%an era and from now on we are planning to train future pastors as foreign missionaries assigned to an alien culture. –  (Dr. Haddon Robinson)

Why Plant a Church?

 There are Biblical Reasons  There are Theological Reasons  There are Apologe3cal Reasons

Biblical Founda%on 1. Matt. 16:13-20 2. Matt. 28: 18-20, Acts 1:8 3. Acts 2:40-47 4.  I Cor. 3 5.  I Cor. 12, Romans 12 6. Eph. 4:1-16

 How do these classical church planting texts shape your thinking about your church plant?

Objec%ve

•  To establish a solid apologe%c framework for building a healthy, growing, reproducing church.

•  Issue: A planter needs to nail the “why” ques%on before he can effec%vely recruit leaders, workers, seekers, prayer supporters, and poten%al donors.

#1 Ques%on: Why?

•  The most frequent question asked of church planters is … “Why do you want to plant a new church in this community at this time?”

v Neighbor Nudge: How will you answer this question?

Apologe%cs Overview

1.  Mo%va%ons: Why you? 2.  Advantages: Why church plan%ng? 3.  Objec%ons: Why another church? 4.  Need: Why this place? 5.  Core: Why I am plan%ng?

Mo%va%ons: +/-‐

1.  Compassion for the lost 2.  Desire to preach 3.  Desire to expand God’s kingdom 4.  Desire to prove self worth 5.  Need for more churches 6.  No open doors 7.  Burden to reach specific people 8.  Can’t get along with other Chris%ans 9.  God’s calling 10.  I want to do my own thing 11.  Personal theological agenda

v  Your Mo%va%ons

•  Your three strongest mo%va%ons? 1)  2)  3) 

•  What nega%ve mo%va%ons to confront? –  – 

•  What posi%ve mo%va%ons to develop? +  +  + 

1. Grow Faster •  “The single most effec%ve evangelis%c

methodology under heaven is plan%ng new churches.

•  Without excep%on, the growing denomina%ons have been those that stress church plan%ng.“ –  Peter Wagner

•  New churches provide superior results. Some denomina%ons have found as much as 80% of their conversion growth comes from new churches. –  Ralph Moore

2007 Study: Conversion Growth

2. Evangelize Beher

3. Develop leaders quicker •  Every church labors to develop and disciple new leaders, but new congrega%ons do it faster.

•  They are forced to raise more leaders per capita and quicker than established churches.

4. More Innova%ve •  Church planters test new ideas as

they look for ways to reach people for Jesus Christ. P Seeker Services P Worship Teams P Disciple Making Pathways P Marke%ng Outreach P Fractal Team Mul%plica%on P Mul%site Paradigm P Team Sermon Prepara%on P Organic Church P Servant Evangelism P External Focus

5. Don’t fight over picky stuff

•  They are more focused on their mission. •  They are more focused on evangelism. •  When you are in a foxhole, you don’t have %me to argue about the color of the carpet.

Common Objec%ons

1.  Plan%ng will damage the parent church? 2.  We already have enough churches? 3.  We’re not ready to start a new church? 4.  Plan%ng costs too much. 5.  Plan%ng will hinder our fellowship. 6.  We are not large enough.

1. Growing Unchurched •  American: New Mission Field •  3rd Largest Field •  150 Mission Unclaimed (50%) •  240 Million Unchurched (80%) •  Need: 80-‐80 Vision

2. Lifecycle Dynamic •  Biblical: Ephesian Ch. •  Today: 99.8% Muslim

•  USA: Last CP = 100 Yr. •  USA: 80% Decline

•  EFCA 1980’s: 6 closed •  EFCA 2000’s: 30-‐40

•  Healthy Denom: -‐3% •  Healthy Church: -‐8%

3. Immigra%on Opportunity •  "Missions is no longer about crossing the

oceans, jungles, and deserts, but about crossing the streets of the world's ci%es.

•  From now on, nearly all ministry will be cross-‐cultural, amid the urban pluralism caused by the greatest migra%on in human history from southern hemisphere to the north, east to west, and above all, from rural to urban."

4. Genera%onal Challenge

Church Ahendance

•  60 % of 60 years old

•  50% of 50 years old




5. Popula%on Growth

•  Church Growth: -‐9.5%

•  Popula%on Growth: +11.4%

•  Bohom line: 20% GAP

Lower Causali%es Urban Legend: 80%

Failure Rate

Research: 68% Survival Rate

EFCA: 87% Survival Rate

ABC Integra%on

+ 400% Assessment

+ 200% Coaching

+ 250% Basic Training

+178% Support

Eternal Mission "If you want to grow something to last a season, plant flowers.

If you want to grow something to last a lifetime, plant trees.

If you want to grow something to last eternally, plant churches."

CURRENT TRENDS

Which Na%on Will be the Largest Chris%an Na%on in 10 Years?

Professor Yang, who wrote 'Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule', believes the number of Chris%ans in China will rise to 160 million by 2025 and 247 million by 2030, just as America's Chris%an popula%on appears to be waning.

hhp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/22/china-‐largest-‐chris%an-‐country_n_5191910.html

“Asian Americans are the highest-‐income, best-‐educated and fastest-‐growing racial group in the U.S, with Asians now making up the largest share of recent immigrants.” – Pew Research’s Rise of Asian Americans, August 2012

Immigration and Naturalization Services Act of 1965

Asian American Immigration increased since 1965

1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

17.3M

11.9M

6.9M

3.5M

1.5M.98M.321M.255M

Asian American Population

Ethnic Asian-American Churches

Es%mated number of Ethnic Asian Churches in the United States

7,123

Chinese

Filipino

Indian

Vietnamese

Korean

Japanese1,304,286

1,706,822

1,737,433

3,183,063

3,416,840

4,010,114

Population % Christian

Churched Asian Americans

31%

89%

18%

36%

71%

38%

“Parents assumed that if you just sent the kids to church through high school, they’d come out being good Christians. We all thought our kids would go to church in college. That was a very naïve thought.” !!Rev. Daniel Lee (1st gen, Global Mission Church, Maryland), quoted in “Silent Exodus,” Christianity Today, 1996.

“Silent Exodus” of the Second-Generations

•  More Asian Americans in college campus ministries indicates a future trajectory for the American church. Asian culture's value for educa%on translates into larger numbers of Asian Americans ahending U.S. colleges and universi%es, as noted in the 2006 Chris%anity Today ar%cle,

The Tiger in the Academy Asian Americans populate America's elite colleges more than ever—and campus ministries even more than that. At the recent Urbana 2012 triennial student missions conference, 39% of the 16,000 ahendees were Asians & Asian Americans, up from 24.4% at the previous Urbana 2009. Both InterVarsity Chris%an Fellowship and Cru's Epic Movement are inten%onally contextualizing ministries for Asian Americans, by Asian Americans.

Chris%anity Today’s Cover Story October 2014

2nd Generation Asian Americans

1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050

40.5M

34.5M

28.5M

22.6M

17.3M

11.9M

6.9M3.5M

1.5M.98M.321M.255M

Asian American Population (Projected)

Next-Generation Multi-Asian Churches

2015

284

Sarang Community Church’s annual fund for church plan%ng by 2nd Genera%on Koreans and other minori%es

$50,000

hhp://djchuang.com/ocr

CASE STUDIES:NEXT GENERATION

CHURCHES

A Chinese Church in China

Ambassador Bible Church

Bay Area Chinese Bible Church

1956

Bay Area Chinese Bible Church

2011

Evergreen Bap%st Church of Los Angeles

1925

Evergreen Bap%st Church of Los Angeles

1997

Interbay Covenant Church (Seahle)

1954

Quest Church (Seahle)

2001


2007


2015

“It takes all kinds of churchesto reach all kinds of people.”

Pastor Rick Warren, Saddleback Church

Pastor Ray Chang Ambassador Church & ReGenerant Network ReGenerant.org | Ambassador Church [email protected] 714-706-1106 DJ Chuang djchuang.com | ReGenerant.org [email protected] 949-243-7260

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