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DISTINCTIVES: Understanding EPIC's Key Concepts
Church-Planting Movements
A church planting movement is a rapid and exponential multiplication of indigenous churches within a population segment (people groups, city or country). EPIC is focusing on initiating these movements through evangelism and discipleship resulting in dynamic, self-propagating churches with a missionary passion.

These movements traditionally have five components:
1. Worldwide Prayer - believers all over the world praying by name for a specific people group that is unreached.
2. Word of God - the Scriptures are made available in both written and oral forms in the mother tongue of the group.
3. Evangelism focused on church planting - when a church planting movement is to be the end result, the methods of evangelism are pre-determined.
4. Training – formal and informal training of leaders from the grassroots church pastor, evangelist, and church planter to the leaders of the movement.
5. End-Visioning – missions outreach is taught from the beginning in each newly planted church. The end result is that a self- perpetuating movement making reaching the unreached the responsibility of the indigenous church.

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