6. Perceived Leadership Crisis or Spiritual Vacuum in Society. When a country or people group becomes insecure due to some crisis, people are more willing to turn to God for answers.
7. On-the-Job Training for Church Leadership. Rather than slowing CPMs by removing leaders from their churches, theological education can be provided onsite. Short-term training modules, such as those offered on our website ( www.missionstraining.org ) are effective means of developing missionaries and church leaders.
8. Leadership Authority is Decentralized. Each cell and each house church needs the authority to minister and plant churches without getting approval from a hierarchy.
9. Outsiders Keep a Low Profile. Missionaries mentor church leaders behind the scenes.
10. Missionaries Suffer. Often missionaries involved with CPM’s suffer. Some of this is due to their self-destructive behavior, and some of this is due to adversaries. So missionaries need to pray. God is responsible for saving people from condemnation and for drawing them into his church. But he has commissioned members of the church to carryout his work. Garrison lists ten practical ways in which missionaries can
