The Vision
"The G12 vision is about loving God, loving people, and doing something to help those in need. It started in Bogota with 8 people and now it has more than 200,000 people."
At World Outreach House of Prayer, we have a dream. The dream is to see the World influenced and impacted by the gospel. It is to see Jesus invade our streets, our homes, our schools and workplace's. Recently the Lord has given us a new vital key to see the fullness of the vision accomplished. This key is called The G12 Vision.
The phrase G12 is a shortened form of the phrase "Groups of Twelve" (It's also used to refer the Government of 12). It refers to a web of relationships among leaders. The principle of twelve was first implemented in a church in Bogotá, Colombia pastured by Cesar Castellanos Dominguez. This church has used the principle of twelve to build the largest small group network in the world: 75,000 small groups in a single congregation! Now, churches worldwide are implementing this simple principle. Its simple, personal nature is easy to duplicate. It is not a program, but the development of gathering relationships that help every new leader become a dynamic, multiplying leader who can disciple others.
Twelve is the number of government in the Bible. Jesus was establishing His kingdom and government on the same principle that God established Israel in the Old Testament: twelve tribes. He intended to show us a pattern of how to disciple the nations.
WOHOP (World Outreach House of Prayer) cell groups (G12 groups) started at the beginning of 2004. Inspired by the first School of Leaders classes, it helped people to start their cell groups; When Pastor Leonard Radomskiy and his wife Luba Radomskiy have their meetings with their primary Twelve on Monday nights, each leader, in turn, mentors their twelve in the same lesson. The resulting network of twelve's (cell groups) is called a generation.
A generation of small groups follows the same pattern as a natural family: parents, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. As leaders are developed and in turn develop other leaders, a generation of leaders who are all related to the main disciple is formed. Often, all of the leaders in a given generation have a meeting together as a macro-cell.
The principle of twelve is a dynamic, powerful principle that has the potential to disciple all nations. Churches can be planted even in remote areas where the leader understands that his primary goal is to turn every believer into a leader. Paul said to Timothy: The things that YOU have heard of ME among many witnesses the same commit thou to FAITHFUL MEN, who will be able to teach OTHERS also. (2 Timothy 2:2)
This is a generation of leaders:
1. PAUL (First generation)
2. TIMOTHY (second generation)
3. FAITHFUL MEN (third generation)
4. OTHER MEN (fourth generation)
The Second Generation of 144
A true twelve meeting only contains twelve leaders who are being mentored in leadership principles. Sometimes, however, a leader has both a cell members and leaders in his small group.
The church services are all in one way or another, focusing on the vision: To win souls and make disciples. The process of the vision consists in what we call: "The Ladder of Success": win, consolidate, disciple and send.
The Vision
The Vision consists in a simple Principle: To win souls and make disciples.
Matthew 28:18-20
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
We call the Method of the Vision: "The Ladder of Success"
1. WIN
New believers are added to the church through personal evangelism, weekend celebration, church services, and monthly "net" meetings.
2. CONSOLIDATE
Both new believers and new church members are "plugged in" to the church through the consolidation process. Members of the consolidation team are assigned to new believers or new members to help enroll them in a weekly cell meeting, guide them through a short Pre-Encounter course, and register them to attend an Encounter Retreat. At this weekend retreat, the "encounter God" through teachings on inner healing, deliverance, baptism in the Holy Spirit, and the vision of the church. Following the retreat, they are encouraged to attend a new believers' class entitled Post-Encounter.
3. DISCIPLE
After completing the consolidation process, the new disciple enters the School of Leaders, which consists of three ten-week trimesters of study. During the second trimester, the students will open their own cells but will also continue meeting in their original cells, which now become their leadership or G12, groups.
4. SEND
As the disciple progresses through the School of Leaders, he opens his own cell and begins to develop his twelve, taking them through each step of the process of the vision: winning them, consolidating them, discipling them, and eventually sending them"to make disciples of all nations."
CELLS
What is a Cell?
A cell is a small house meeting where evangelism, consolidation, edification and commissioning take place. There are four hallmarks of a genuine cell: worship, nurture, fellowship and outreach.
Ask any medical student "What is a cell?" and they will explain that it is the basic building block of the body. Our bodies consist of millions and millions of cells working in unison. We cannot live without them. What is true of the physical body is true of the body of Christ, the Church.
The original church was founded in cells in the homes of the believers. It was God's strategy for the church. In this way there was not only numerical growth but also spiritual growth in the church. Cells are an effective way of serving God in the Church. The Early Church grew both numerically and spiritually. In this growth the following four things were accomplished: Evangelism (Win), Consolidation (in the Doctrine of the apostles), Discipleship, and Commissioning (Send).
Christ always dedicated Himself to a group of people, His disciples. He evangelized them, consolidated them, built them up and commissioned them.
NETWORKS
The G12 vision works through homogeneous cell groups. At WOHOP (World Outreach House of Prayer) the cells are organized into several different nets: the men's network, the women's network, the couples', youth and children's networks.
Homogeneous groups allow people to learn and grow in the company of like-minded people who have the same needs, face the same challenges and share the same interests, identity and language. The gospel (evangelism and discipleship) travels fastest along these kinship or homogeneous lines.
We know this principle very well from the youth ministry. Young people have special interests that enable them to identify with one another. Their music, their style and their mind set all relate to their time of life. We can best address their questions, pressures, and temptations in the context of youth ministry.
The same principle applies to women. Many women's ministries are being raised up today. These recognize the special dynamic that operates when women come together to minister to each other.
The same is true of men's ministry. Men open up better in the company of other men. And we need to minister to the men as men who share the same needs, desires and pressures.
The principle is 'like disciples like'. When you disciple others, you reproduce yourself. Jesus' 12 disciples where male, although He had many women followers. In fact, they were often the most faithful, loyal and supportive. Women backed his ministry in practical provision. He elevated them and gave them a very high place in His ministry, teaching and mission. But His close disciples (His 12) were men.
The homogeneous principle does not mean the sexes or the age groups are divided and separated. It means that they are discipled as men, women, youth and children to take up their place as disciples in their families and in the wider church body. They become better husbands, wives, fathers, mothers or children. The celebrations and church services include everybody. The church is a family and the family must come together.