VICTOR CHOUDRIE: INTRODUCTION AND CARD INDEX
Who the heck is Victor Choudrie I hear you ask!
Well, in November 2009 Annette and I were privileged to attend the very first world house church leader’s conference in New Delhi India, which was hosted by Victor. We are not house church leaders but were in the country at the time and were allowed to attend. What we saw in those four days blew our mind! The developing world is rapidly moving away from the European cultural paradigm of church and adopting a model closer to the New Testament. The results are amazing. Leaders from 40 countries shared with us their strategies, visions and current growth status. It was like being pulled up into the stratosphere and getting a global view of what God is doing in the great arc of humanity that lives in Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East.
India, under Victor’s humble leadership, is leading this global movement and has many independent house church movements that work loosely together. Since they were birthed in the early 1990’s they have seen at least 5 million people from mostly Hindu backgrounds come to faith from the previously resistant north of India. Their growth rate varies from 10% to 40% a year depending on the movement and the circumstances. At their current rate of growth they will see over 100 million people become followers of Jesus by 2050 in a nation that in on course to become a superpower.
Victor is a surgeon by trade who has been called to ‘father’ the dozen or so leaders of these house church planting movements. In early 2008 God gave him to prepare the Indian house church movement for the biggest baptism in history. On Pentecost Sunday 2009 the house church movement across India saw 300,000 verified baptisms in a single day in tens of thousands of locations around India!
The following teaching cards are most of his essential teachings for new believers boiled down into simple, one page lessons. They articulate his radical and practical philosophy of Jesus, church and our mission. They are a call for Christians to join the spiritual and cultural revolution that Jesus began. It is no accident the Indian house church movement’s goal is to win 51% of the Indian population to Jesus and reform all of society in the process. They believe the future belongs to Jesus. They believe in future cultural victory as opposed to our western belief in cultural defeat. They have tapped into the heart of God.
THE CORE AGENDA
From Victor…
“These teaching cards are extensively used in training seminars for church planters by our Master Builders. It is not to be used sequentially but in the context of the existing competencies of the trainees. These topics are ideal for discussion in house churches. They have to be repeated several times before proper comprehension of the New Testament model of churches emerges. The topics are designed both for background knowledge and practical skills needed for bringing about a saturation church planting movement.”
1. THE GREAT COMMISSION
2. WHAT IS CHURCH
3. GOD’S WILL AND PURPOSES
4. GOD’S END VISION
5. JESUS NEEDS LABOURERS
6. THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH
7. THE TRIPLET CHURCH
8. TENFOLD FUNCTIONS OF THE CHURCH
9. TRAINING WISE MASTERBUILDERS
10. MULTIPLICATION
11. WHO IS A DISCIPLE
12. ELDERS QUALIFICATION AND FUNCTION
13. YOU ARE A ROYAL PRIEST NOT JUST A LAYMEN
14. FIVE STEPS OF MATURITY CYCLE
15. FIVEFOLD MINISTRY GIFTS
16. SACRIFICE IS TRUE WORSHIP
17. BAPTISM: A DEFINING MOMENT
18. THE ROLE OF WOMEN
19. THE LORD’S PRAYER
20. PRAY, PROCLAIM & POSSESS THE NATION
21. PRAYER WALKING: TEN STEPS
22. KINGDOM PRAYERS
23. RESULT OF PRAYERLESSNESS
24. THE MINISTRY OF FASTING
25. SPIRITUAL WARFARE
26. DIVINE HEALING
27. TITHE
28. BREAKING CURSES
29. UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS
30. ORALITY AND STORYTELLING
31. FOUNDATIONAL TEACHINGS
32. ATTRITION TO ACCRETION
33. PERSECUTION
34. PAUL’S 5-FOLD STRATEGY FOR EVANGELISM
35. JESUS: A PROCESS PERSON, NOT EVENT ORIENTED
36. WHAT JESUS SAID AND DIDN’T SAY
37. FROM A MODERN CHURCH TO THE NT MODEL
38. TWO THINGS TO KNOW & TWO THINGS TO DO
39. STEPS TO CHURCH PLANTING: LUKE 10
40. FATHERHOOD
41. THE CHURCH MUST PASTOR THE WHOLE CITY
42. PARTNERSHIP
43. VISION
44. KINGDOM OF GOD
45. CULTURE CLASH
46. HISTORY OF THE HOUSE CHURCH
47. GOD’S VISION