house church – OralityTalks https://oralitytalks.net Journal • Webinar Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:06:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://oralitytalks.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-OralityTalks-Icon-Gray-32x32.png house church – OralityTalks https://oralitytalks.net 32 32 228068180 Multiplying Disciples: Making Movements https://oralitytalks.net/multiplying-disciples-making-movements/ https://oralitytalks.net/multiplying-disciples-making-movements/#respond Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:49:11 +0000 https://oralitytalks.net/?p=3208 During our September 2025 webinar, four presenters shared unique perspectives on church planting movements.

Jojo Manzano offered a global perspective, highlighting the urgent need for rapidly multiplying disciples to reach the unreached.

Todd Kerns from StoryRunners emphasized the crucial role of storytelling in disciple-making movements. He shared an example from rural Africa where people empowered by stories began planting and multiplying churches.

Sonny and Bel Lapada, serving among the Tagbanwa people in the Philippines, demonstrated how Bible Story Dialoguing can establish house church networks. They have been applying oral methods and principles since the late 1970s, even before they knew the term.

Neil and Doreen Benavidez recounted their experience in Mindoro, Philippines, where they started a Bible school among the Mangyan. They train church planters, most without a high school degree, and require each graduate to have planted at least one church.

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Orality Missiology of Disciple Multiplication Movements: The Philippine Tentmaker Missions Story https://oralitytalks.net/orality-missiology-of-disciple-multiplication-movements-the-philippine-tentmaker-missions-story/ https://oralitytalks.net/orality-missiology-of-disciple-multiplication-movements-the-philippine-tentmaker-missions-story/#respond Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:16:21 +0000 https://oralitytalks.net/?p=1500 Abstract: Developing a robust orality missiology for the Filipino church involves a SWOT analysis after two decades of tentmaker mobilization. Strengths lie in leveraging Overseas Filipino Workers as orality missionaries, emphasizing total mobilization and disciple multiplication movements (DMM). Weaknesses include clarifying the goal of societal transformation over Christianization and exploring ecclesiological implications of House Church Networks (HCN). Opportunities arise in Insider Movements with a multicultural approach. Threats involve literate Christendom dominance. Orality missions focus on contextualized spirituality, promoting self-theologizing and seizing opportunities in Asia’s HCNs, global Kingdom Movements, post-modernity, and social media. The goal is a Company 3 strategy for effective DMMs.

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