700 Plans for World Evangelization!
Only 3% of these plans were focused on making new disciples!
DAWN: Disciple a Whole Nation
DAWN aims at mobilizing the whole body of Christ in every nation in a determined effort to fulfill the great commission through the goal of providing a bible centered congregation that is relevant and within walking distance of every village and community around the world. DAWN believes that in order to disciple a nation, every person in that nation has to at least have heard the gospel proclaimed to them clearly and seen in an example of a believer in their own language and culture. Only then can they make an informed decision. For this to happen, there has to be a witnessing church in every community. DAWn therefore aims at igniting fires that lead to internally driven rapid multiplication of churches.
DAWN: Origins
- In the 1970′s, Vergil Gerber was conducting church growth workshops in 50 countries.
- His workbooks were translated into 40 languages.
- Jim Montgomery was the founder of DAWN.
- Founded in 1985.
- He was overwhelmed by a desire to see the glory of the Lord cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, to see Jesus Christ incarnate in all his beauty, power and love in every small community of mankind.
- Launched his dream with the publication of a classic, “DAWN 2000: 7 Million Churches to Go” which birthed the DAWN Movement around the world.
- Over three million churches have been planted directly or indirectly.
- Dawn Ministries has projects in 94 countries in seven regions and aims to see every country in the world adopt a similar plan for completing the Great Commission.
The Endorsements!
- Peter Wagner:: “DAWN is the best strategy yet developed for world evangelization. It is the best program I know of for bringing the church growth to the grass-roots level on an international basis.”
- Ralph Winter:: “DAWN is the most basic strategy of all strategies. There are other things that need to be done besides DAWN but that is the starting place for completing the GC.”
Saturation Church Planting (SCP): Biblical Vision/International Strategy
Israel’s calling: Missions to the nations. Genesis 12:3, Isaiah 45:22, Isaiah 60:3
The greatest challenge to completion:
- Theological: an interpretation of multi-culturalism and post-modernism leading to universalism (A Western Christian problem)
- Personal: prayer urgency producing passion for the harvest.
- Practical: the goals of the Body are not organized into comprehensive plans, isolated tactics not melded into coordinated strategy.
How can the whole church work together in a common strategy to disciple the nations? Its simpler than you may think!
Vision & Goal. Tactics & Strategy
- Vision is a compelling ‘word picture’ with the ‘end in view.’ Trying to articulate as precisely as possible that which you are trying to accomplish in the end.
- Goals connect vision and reality. Measurable, time-sensitive. Tell us whether we have made progress towards the vision. [When a goal is set, we begin to wrestle with the challenges that we have never faced. . . leading to. . . ]
- Strategy: the comprehensive means of accomplishing the goal.
- Tactics: the component elements of the comprehensive strategy.
Saturation Church Planting:
- DAWN goal: 1 disciple-making community for every 500 people in every ethnae and people the group in the nation.
- DAWN strategy: to mobilize the whole church to disciple the whole nation through SCP.
- Dawn tactics: to engage denomimations, schools, para-church missions, local churches, and lay people in setting individuals goals hich contribute directly to the national goal.
DAWN Utilizes:
- Advanced church growth technology
- more extensive research
- a broader base of coordination
- a longer term and more demanding process
- an extensive accountability system.
Process to mobilize a whole nation:
- Identify potential leaders/watchmen
- Initial research and analysis “harvest field” nation and ‘harvest force’ church
- Develop network of intercessors
- Hold initial rally
- Form a national committee
- Complete in-depth research
- Develop prophetic message
- Hold DAWN congress, set national goals
- Implement denominational programs
- Review accomplishments in two years
How has the DAWN strategy impacted other nations?
- First DAWN Project in the Philippines
- Goals for 50,000 churches by AD 2000
- Current growth on target to achieve goals
- Brazil.
- Venezuela.
- Peru.
- Romania
- India
- China
- Malaysia
- Egypt.
- England
The Transformations Paradigm
The Road to Community Transformation:
- Stage 1:
- Spiritual Mapping
- Reconciliation between churches
- United prayer meetings
- Public re-committal to community or land
- Prayer walking
- Stage 2: Spiritual Breakthrough
- The prayer burden begins to lift
- Divine revelation and instruction occur
- Christians begin to take bold action in the light of this revelation
- Reconciliation takes place between the church and the community
- The Christian community rallies under intense spiritual warfare
- Power encounters take place
- Large scale conversions take place
- Churches grow
- Stage 3:
- Converted political and spiritual leaders formally renounce historic ties to the spirit world.
- Socio-political renewal sweeps the community.
- Community transformation and divine miracles are acknowledged by the secular news media.
- The community begins to export spiritual light to other places.
- Believers maintain their victory through devotion to fellowship, prayer and the Word.
Critiques of this model handed out in class.
Also: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~rseaborn/apostles.html
