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The Essence of Church Life |
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The congregation of Abbalove Ministries had grown from the fellowship of 3 young persons in 1979 into approximately 200 persons in 1985. Since 1986 this congregation had hold the vision of local churches living. The growth continued with the mentoring method in cellgroups. Through this small groups method, the congregation was added up to the number of 3000 people in 1996. |
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The Key of the Congregation’s Development |
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The Abbalove Ministry congregation’s development was greatly influence by external factors, which come from outside, and internal factors, which come from inside the Abbalove congregation itself. Concerning to the fact of external pressure like multi dimensional crisis, maltreatment and global problems has resulted the thirsty emerge of mankind to God, the creator. Those problems have opened new opportunities to reach new souls in Indonesia. |
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The Essence/Substance (DNA) |
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Since 1999 God had revealed us a fact that the most important thing we should have in every exisntence of ministry is the essence/substance (DNA). This substance was the most vital part, it should not be removed. There were 2 things that formed Abbalove Ministries’ DNA: |
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Three Congregational Pillars |
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In the establishment and development of the congregation, Abbalove Ministry believes to the natural congregational establishment, which was pioneered by Christian Schwarz (Read: the Natural Church Establishment, published by Metanoia). The quality of those eight characters that make a church healthy, according to Christian Schwartz, is applied through a unique way, one very important characteristic is the suitable function structure. It means that the structure applied by a congregation must be a suitable function at time, situation and local condition to reach out the vision or mission of that church.
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Congregation and Leaders Area |
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In its establishment, God brings the Abbalove Ministry congregation to expand by areas. God does not indicate this congregation to develop a Mega congregation (Mega Church), where every member is assembled in one huge building on Sundays. |
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