DESCRIPTION:

How to preach the Gospel to every creature in a place, city, or nation? How to help the millions of new believers to grow in their faith? How to develop the thousands of pastors and leaders that are needed to serve the new believers? These are some of the questions that demand an urgent response in the Christian Hispanic context today. This course provides the description, biblical-theological-missiological foundation, critical analysis, and practical implementation of the various models of cellular churches as ways of responding to the above-mentioned questions.

The fulfillment of the Great Commission given by our Lord Jesus Christ has two very clear elements: go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation (Mark 16:15), and make disciples, teaching them everything the Lord has commanded us (Matthew 28:19-20). this is the challenge to any local or national church: to find balance between the task of proclaiming the good news and the task of providing integral growth to the believers. The cellular church is providing an interesting way to obey the Lord in responding to both challenges.

The course will be a two-week intensive that will meet for four hours daily.

Ander-Egg, Ezequiel. ¿Cómo hacer reuniones eficaces? Buenos Aires: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales Aplicadas, 1992.

Comiskey, Joel. Groups of Twelve: A New Way to Mobilize Leaders to Multiply Groups in Your Church. Houston: Touch Publications, 1999.

_________. La explosión de grupos celulares en los hogares. Barcelona: Editorial CLIE, 2000.

_________. Reap the Harvest: How a Small-Group System Can Grow Your Church. Houston: Touch Publications. 1999.

Finnell, David L. Iglesias célula. El Paso: Editorial Mundo Hispano, 2000.

Galloway, Dale. The Small Group Book, Grand Rapids: Fleming H. Revell, 1995.

Neighbour, Ralph W., Jr. Where Do We Go from Here? Houston: Touch Publications, 2000.

Schwarz, Christian A. Desarrollo natural de la iglesia. Barcelona: Editorial CLIE, 1996.

_________. Las 8 características básicas de una iglesia saludable: Guía práctica para un iglecrecimiento natural. Barcelona: Editorial CLIE, 1996.

Stockstill, Larry. La iglesia celular. Miami: Betania, 2000.

1. Attendance and participation in class are required.

2. Students will read a total of 1,500 pages from the books listed in the Bibliography and submit a reading report.

3. Students will write a paper of no less that 20 pages, with no less than 10 books in the bibliography dealing with a particular of a cellular church or developing their own project of a cellular church.

Spanish.

Elective.