CHURCHPLANTER GAME

Content of the game

The aim of this game is the fulfillment of a mission and vision. Doing that you will learn, how to build a team and to evangelise the (game-) figures. Spiritual infants will grow to spiritual teenagers and fathers, to a clan, to a tribe and then to a people. Sometimes everything is working out nearly automatically and in other times you have to overcome some hurdles.

With consummating ease of the game one gets to know the principles of house-church planting and you learn to put them into practize. Strategy, the ability to fit into a team, ambition but also luck are the elements of this game. It is exciting and lively and who starts it is emotionally involved until the end.

God commands us: Go into all the world, preach the gospel and make disciples of all nations. This task is fulfilled in the continent of Europe (anpassen an die entsprechenden Kulturen)

Players in action.

The story behind the game

During one generation the first apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ put the world of the Roman Empire of the 1 st Century AD upside-down starting in Jerusalem. Within three centuries the Mediterean world was a blossoming area of persecuted but growing and joyful House- Churches. With this game you will walk in the footsteps of the first apostles. This game starte in Italy while a group was thinking how we could teach our friends the joy and the values of a discipleship- and housechurch- movement in an exciting way.

The core of this game ist he discipleship- commission: „Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost (The Bible, The Gospel according to Mathew, Chapter 28). The apostle John describes in his first epistle the different state of Growth of a follower of Jesus. There are those that do not have a spiritual relationship to Jesus, the children, the teenager and the fathers. Therefore this game sensitizes its players for that task. The Primitive Church in New Testaments times met in privat houses. But they were not indipendent units, they were connected with other house – churches to the city-wide Church of that city and was called according to its geographical location. The Churchplanting game is about planting housechurches with one spirtual father, one spiritual teenager and at least two spiritual children or spiritual infants..

Like in real Life there are difficulties, successes and loses, break ups and persecution. One player can interrupt, to observe the other players or can receive an intercessor-card. Who loves strategy can receive a teamcard to concentrate all his power for the last period of the game. Some facts are known to all players and other facts are hidden. Therefore it is not obvious who will win the game. Sometimes it is like in reality one is helping the other and sometimes you are working against each other.

The Question is: Who is going to fulfill his or her mission at first?

Lots of fun while playing this game! Enjoy!

The authors: Marco Gmür & Bettina Schwarz

The board of advisiors: Thomas Lutz, Sylvia Sieber, Markus Jerominski, Stephan Gyger, Gian-Luca Gmür