Presented by ReGenerant Network http://regenerant.org - April 27, 2015 in Tampa at Exponential Conference - by Ray Chang and DJ Chuang

2. EAST MEETS WEST
ASIAN AMERICAN
CHURCH PLANTING
Ray Chang & DJ Chuang
ReGenerant Network
ReGenerant.org

3. WHY PLANT?

4. Ques%on
of
the
Day
Has the Church
Lost Touch with
the Lost World?

5. Missionary:
John
20:21
• America
has
entered
a
post
Chris%an
era
and
from
now
on
we
are
planning
to
train
future
pastors
as
foreign
missionaries
assigned
to
an
alien
culture.
– (Dr.
Haddon
Robinson)

6. Why
Plant
a
Church?
There
are
Biblical
Reasons
There
are
Theological
Reasons
There
are
Apologe3cal
Reasons

7. Biblical
Founda%on
1. Matt. 16:13-20
2. Matt. 28: 18-20, Acts 1:8
3. Acts 2:40-47
4. I Cor. 3
5. I Cor. 12, Romans 12
6. Eph. 4:1-16
How do these classical church planting texts
shape your thinking about your church plant?

8. Objec%ve
• To
establish
a
solid
apologe%c
framework
for
building
a
healthy,
growing,
reproducing
church.
• Issue:
A
planter
needs
to
nail
the
“why”
ques%on
before
he
can
effec%vely
recruit
leaders,
workers,
seekers,
prayer
supporters,
and
poten%al
donors.

9. #1
Ques%on:
Why?
• The most frequent question asked of
church planters is … Why do you want to
plant a new church in this community at
this time?
v Neighbor Nudge: How will you answer
this question?

10. Apologe%cs
Overview
1. Mo%va%ons:
Why
you?
2. Advantages:
Why
church
plan%ng?
3. Objec%ons:
Why
another
church?
4. Need:
Why
this
place?
5. Core:
Why
I
am
plan%ng?

11. Mo%va%ons:
+/-­‐
1. Compassion
for
the
lost
2. Desire
to
preach
3. Desire
to
expand
God’s
kingdom
4. Desire
to
prove
self
worth
5. Need
for
more
churches
6. No
open
doors
7. Burden
to
reach
specific
people
8. Can’t
get
along
with
other
Chris%ans
9. God’s
calling
10. I
want
to
do
my
own
thing
11. Personal
theological
agenda

12. v
Your
Mo%va%ons
• Your
three
strongest
mo%va%ons?
1)
2)
3)
• What
nega%ve
mo%va%ons
to
confront?
–
–
• What
posi%ve
mo%va%ons
to
develop?
+
+
+

13. 1.
Grow
Faster
• “The
single
most
effec%ve
evangelis%c
methodology
under
heaven
is
plan%ng
new
churches.
• Without
excep%on,
the
growing
denomina%ons
have
been
those
that
stress
church
plan%ng.“
– Peter
Wagner
• New
churches
provide
superior
results.
Some
denomina%ons
have
found
as
much
as
80%
of
their
conversion
growth
comes
from
new
churches.
– Ralph
Moore

14. 2007 Study: Conversion Growth

15. 2.
Evangelize
Beher

16. 3.
Develop
leaders
quicker
• Every
church
labors
to
develop
and
disciple
new
leaders,
but
new
congrega%ons
do
it
faster.
• They
are
forced
to
raise
more
leaders
per
capita
and
quicker
than
established
churches.

17. 4.
More
Innova%ve
• Church
planters
test
new
ideas
as
they
look
for
ways
to
reach
people
for
Jesus
Christ.
P Seeker
Services
P Worship
Teams
P Disciple
Making
Pathways
P Marke%ng
Outreach
P Fractal
Team
Mul%plica%on
P Mul%site
Paradigm
P Team
Sermon
Prepara%on
P Organic
Church
P Servant
Evangelism
P External
Focus

18. 5.
Don’t
fight
over
picky
stuff
• They
are
more
focused
on
their
mission.
• They
are
more
focused
on
evangelism.
• When
you
are
in
a
foxhole,
you
don’t
have
%me
to
argue
about
the
color
of
the
carpet.

19. Common
Objec%ons
1. Plan%ng
will
damage
the
parent
church?
2. We
already
have
enough
churches?
3. We’re
not
ready
to
start
a
new
church?
4. Plan%ng
costs
too
much.
5. Plan%ng
will
hinder
our
fellowship.
6. We
are
not
large
enough.

20. 1.
Growing
Unchurched
• American:
New
Mission
Field
• 3rd
Largest
Field
• 150
Mission
Unclaimed
(50%)
• 240
Million
Unchurched
(80%)
• Need:
80-­‐80
Vision

21. © 2006 by David T. Olson
www.TheAmericanChurch.org22

22. 2.
Lifecycle
Dynamic
• Biblical:
Ephesian
Ch.
• Today:
99.8%
Muslim
• USA:
Last
CP
=
100
Yr.
• USA:
80%
Decline
• EFCA
1980’s:
6
closed
• EFCA
2000’s:
30-­‐40
• Healthy
Denom:
-­‐3%
• Healthy
Church:
-­‐8%

23. © 2006 by David T. Olson
www.TheAmericanChurch.org24

24. 3.
Immigra%on
Opportunity
• "Missions
is
no
longer
about
crossing
the
oceans,
jungles,
and
deserts,
but
about
crossing
the
streets
of
the
world's
ci%es.
• From
now
on,
nearly
all
ministry
will
be
cross-­‐cultural,
amid
the
urban
pluralism
caused
by
the
greatest
migra%on
in
human
history
from
southern
hemisphere
to
the
north,
east
to
west,
and
above
all,
from
rural
to
urban."

25. © 2006 by David T. Olson
www.TheAmericanChurch.org26

26. 4.
Genera%onal
Challenge
Church
Ahendance
• 60
%
of
60
years
old
• 50%
of
50
years
old
• 40%
of
40
years
old
• 30%
of
30
years
old
• 20%
of
20
years
old

27. 5.
Popula%on
Growth
• Church
Growth:
-­‐9.5%
• Popula%on
Growth:
+11.4%
• Bohom
line:
20%
GAP

28. © 2006 by David T. Olson
www.TheAmericanChurch.org30

29. © 2006 by David T. Olson
www.TheAmericanChurch.org31

30. © 2006 by David T. Olson
www.TheAmericanChurch.org32

31. Lower
Causali%es
Urban
Legend:
80%
Failure
Rate
Research:
68%
Survival
Rate
EFCA:
87%
Survival
Rate

32. ABC
Integra%on
+
400%
Assessment
+
200%
Coaching
+
250%
Basic
Training
+178%
Support

38. Eternal
Mission
"If you want to grow something
to last a season, plant flowers.
If you want to grow something
to last a lifetime, plant trees.
If you want to grow something
to last eternally, plant churches."

39. CURRENT TRENDS

40. Which
Na%on
Will
be
the
Largest
Chris%an
Na%on
in
10
Years?

41. Professor
Yang,
who
wrote
'Religion
in
China:
Survival
and
Revival
under
Communist
Rule',
believes
the
number
of
Chris%ans
in
China
will
rise
to
160
million
by
2025
and
247
million
by
2030,
just
as
America's
Chris%an
popula%on
appears
to
be
waning.
hhp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/22/china-­‐largest-­‐chris%an-­‐country_n_5191910.html

43. “Asian
Americans
are
the
highest-­‐income,
best-­‐educated
and
fastest-­‐
growing
racial
group
in
the
U.S,
with
Asians
now
making
up
the
largest
share
of
recent
immigrants.”
–
Pew
Research’s
Rise
of
Asian
Americans,
August
2012

44. Immigration and Naturalization Services Act of 1965

45. Asian American Immigration increased since 1965

46. 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
17.3M
11.9M
6.9M
3.5M
1.5M.98M
.321M.255M
Asian American Population

50. Ethnic Asian-American Churches
Es%mated
number
of
Ethnic
Asian
Churches
in
the
United
States
7,123

51. Chinese
Filipino
Indian
Vietnamese
Korean
Japanese
1,304,286
1,706,822
1,737,433
3,183,063
3,416,840
4,010,114
Population % Christian
Churched Asian Americans
31%
89%
18%
36%
71%
38%

53. “Parents assumed that if you just sent the kids
to church through high school, they’d come out
being good Christians. We all thought our kids
would go to church in college. That was a very
naïve thought.” !
!
Rev. Daniel Lee (1st gen, Global Mission Church, Maryland), quoted in
“Silent Exodus,” Christianity Today, 1996.
“Silent Exodus” of the Second-Generations

54. • More
Asian
Americans
in
college
campus
ministries
indicates
a
future
trajectory
for
the
American
church.
Asian
culture's
value
for
educa%on
translates
into
larger
numbers
of
Asian
Americans
ahending
U.S.
colleges
and
universi%es,
as
noted
in
the
2006
Chris%anity
Today
ar%cle,

55. The
Tiger
in
the
Academy
Asian
Americans
populate
America's
elite
colleges
more
than
ever—and
campus
ministries
even
more
than
that.
At
the
recent
Urbana
2012
triennial
student
missions
conference,
39%
of
the
16,000
ahendees
were
Asians
&
Asian
Americans,
up
from
24.4%
at
the
previous
Urbana
2009.
Both
InterVarsity
Chris%an
Fellowship
and
Cru's
Epic
Movement
are
inten%onally
contextualizing
ministries
for
Asian
Americans,
by
Asian
Americans.

56. Chris%anity
Today’s
Cover
Story
October
2014

57. 2nd Generation
Asian Americans

58. 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050
40.5M
34.5M
28.5M
22.6M
17.3M
11.9M
6.9M
3.5M
1.5M.98M.321M.255M
Asian American Population (Projected)

59. Next-Generation Multi-Asian Churches
2015
284

60. Sarang
Community
Church’s
annual
fund
for
church
plan%ng
by
2nd
Genera%on
Koreans
and
other
minori%es
$50,000

61. hhp://djchuang.com/ocr

62. CASE STUDIES:
NEXT GENERATION
CHURCHES

63. A
Chinese
Church
in
China

64. Ambassador
Bible
Church

65. Bay
Area
Chinese
Bible
Church
1956

66. Bay
Area
Chinese
Bible
Church
2011

67. Evergreen
Bap%st
Church
of
Los
Angeles
1925

68. Evergreen
Bap%st
Church
of
Los
Angeles
1997

69. Interbay
Covenant
Church
(Seahle)
1954

70. Quest
Church
(Seahle)
2001

71. Quest
Church
(Seahle)
2007

72. Quest
Church
(Seahle)
2015

73. “It takes all kinds of churches
to reach all kinds of people.”
Pastor
Rick
Warren,
Saddleback
Church

74. Q & A

75. Pastor Ray Chang
Ambassador Church & ReGenerant Network
ReGenerant.org | Ambassador Church
ray@regenerant.org 714-706-1106
DJ Chuang
djchuang.com | ReGenerant.org
email@djchuang.com 949-243-7260