World Missions & Evangelism, Inc.

To all of you who have been following the articles on the WME blog, let me ask for your special prayers for a major outreach that is about to happen in Honduras. As you know, WME has a permanent team in western Honduras that is conducting community development ministries and beginning inductive Bible studies as initial steps in church planting. The project is going very well and as of now, has begun 1st, 2 nd , and 3rd generation studies. We are very excited about what is happening there. So now a team of 16 people are preparing to travel to Honduras in the coming days. The trip is May 30 through June 6. This short term team will be assisting the permanent team in community development ministries. The team plans to help with painting a school, drilling a water well, and distribution of school supply backpacks to hundreds of children in several villages. They will also be learning about the principles of church planting movements. Please pray for this outreach. Our hope is th...

In the November 5 blog article, I talked about the 1:8 principle. It is a comparison of Joshua 1:8 and Acts 1:8. As I first began to go deeper into the church planting movement principles, I was struck by the critical element that "all you need to begin is the Word of God and the Holy Spirit". It interested me that the two "1:8" scriptures (the first to Israel as they launched out on their "great commission" and the second to the church as it launched out on its mission) highlighted these two elements respectively: the Word of God and the Holy Spirit. That is why I chose Joshua 1:1-8 to recommend as a 3 column study for those who would like to learn this process. In this installment I will report from my 3 column sheet on this passage, focusing just on verse 8. I do this both to illustrate the process and to share the fruit of the study. The previous 7 verses set the stage and the context. Moses has died and God now tells Joshua to enter the land. ...

The 3 Column Bible study method is a fundamental part of the process of cpm . This method of Bible study is beneficial to an individual and it is foundational to a small group discovery Bible study which is the foundational unit of church planting. Let me take you through the basics of it and then try it yourself. Take a regular 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper and turn it on its side. Then draw 2 vertical lines down the whole sheet so that you have created 3 approximately same sized columns. Begin on the left column and write at the top of the sheet the word "SCRIPTURE". Then at the top of the middle column write the words "MY WORDS". Then at the top of the third column write the words "I WILL". In the SCRIPTURE column you will write out the passage of scripture that you are studying word for word. Someone might ask, why must the passage be written, I can just read it. But if you are doing this for your own study, it is important that you write it. As yo...