J. D. Payne serves as the pastor for church multiplication with The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama. Before moving to Birmingham, he served for ten years with the North American Mission Board and as an Associate Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism in the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he also directed the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting.
He is the author of ten books. Among them are: Missional House Churches: Reaching Our Communities with the Gospel, The Barnabas Factors: Eight Essential Practices of Church Planting Team Members, and Apostolic Church Planting: Birthing New Churches from New Believers.
He may be contacted at [email protected] or found on Twitter @jd_payne.
Before listening to the podcast, take a simple self-assessment. Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10.
10 - Always true of me
7 - Mostly true of me
5 - Sometimes true of me
3 - Rarely true of me
1 - Never true of me
___ I spend time outside the cohort with the planters I train because I focus on giving them hands-on, practical experiences.
___ I take time to seriously consider how much I allow American culture to influence my thinking about what effective church planting really looks like.
___ I constantly ask myself, “How can I make my training of planters and my models of planting simpler and less complex and, therefore, more reproducible?”
___ In my training, I pull in people from other parts of the country who can take my planters further down the road than I can.
___ I allow myself to be influenced by church planting leaders who have served outside of North America.
___ I desire to see and experience not only the Apostle Paul’s doctrine and results but also his practice.
___ I take great joy in training both apostolic church planters as well as pastoral church planters.
___ Your total
What does this tell you about your ability to make your training simple, reproducible, missional and apostolic?
Now, grab your favorite fountain pen and journal, and take a few notes on the podcast featuring J.D. Payne.
Write down your answers. Tell someone—a team member, a fellow trainer or your Regional Send Network Trainer—about the changes you want to make. Ask them to pray with you and encourage you. Now, develop a strategy—next steps—to make those changes a reality.
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