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Answering the Boss’s Call – In the Philippines

God’s calling on our lives is rarely convenient, but it is ALWAYS life-changing! Today hear how a couple made real change in their community by taking their eyes off their own vision to answer “the Boss’s Call.”
At DCPI, we teach 12 Biblical Principles to all of our Church Planting Essentials trainees. One of these principles is “The Boss Principle” — the idea that Jesus is the boss of His Church.

THE BOSS PRINCIPLE: Christ is Lord of church planting, and He has a vision for your new church.

Because Jesus is the Lord of church planting, He often calls people to take uncomfortable steps of faith to follow Him and see His power at work in their lives and their communities. Though it may be inconvenient, following the Boss’s call is always life-changing!

When our Boss calls, we should take the call. 
 
That’s what happened to a young couple named Edwin and Rachel from Labo, Camarines Norte, Philippines. They were youth leaders at their home church.

Edwin loved his church, and he didn’t have a vision for church planting. But, Edwin was asked to attend a NexGen Challenge training eight hours from his town. Though he wasn’t interested in making the long journey… he listened to God’s call and went anyway.
In the NexGen Challenge training, Edwin began to see himself as a church-planter. He, and most of the people that went through that NexGen training have since become leaders within their churches, and some have become pastors!

“NexGen is like the primer that comes before all the other DCPI training tracks.”He said. The NexGen Challenge expanded his vision to plant a church or a Gospel movement wherever there is none.
The NexGen challenge inspired Edwin to lead his first church-plant in Labo in 2017 with just a few other young leaders from their mother church.

Their church targeted youth and young adults and they decided to call it “NexGen Church”.

Powerful testimonies came out of the church plant in Labo, including people from the LGBTQ+ community accepting Jesus and being baptized. Now the church members feel especially led to reach out to this community.

As the church grew to about 150 members, Edwin and his core leaders decided to plant a church in every district in their city.
The “NexGen Church” that opened in Daet quickly grew to 150 members, and its leaders adopted the strategy of starting Christian groups in the twenty local schools and universities. Their approach is “to go where the youth are,” rather than waiting for them to come into the four-walls of the church.

The two NexGen churches also started working with other churches who didn’t have an existing youth program to provide the NexGen Challenge to their young people and help them mobilize the youth in their community.

And then COVID entered the equation and things only got more exciting… I’ll share more about that in my Fireside Chat later this month.

The BOSS PRINCIPLE reminds us that Jesus is the Boss who determines our steps. Is the Boss calling you to be trained for another step in serving Him? Is there a DCPI training track that will help you implement this next step?

Until The Whole World Knows Jesus,
Dr. Paul Becker

President and Founder

Scott Kirk
Vice President of Global Training

Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI)

www.dcpi.org
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