Comments on: Why church planting?

By: ap

ap — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:58:07 +0000

Thanks Nathan. What is your connection to church planting? I’d love to hear about it.

By: Nathan Creitz

Nathan Creitz — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:02:26 +0000

Thanks for your post. It sounds like you are really thinking through the issue and have found some great insights into why we plant churches.

I like to think of it in terms of family. If Ed Stetzer is correct in suggesting that only 4% of American churches ever reproduce then our “population” is going to die off pretty fast. Imagine if an entire nation only had a 4% fertility rate!

Our society needs old churches, young churches, and new churches just like a family is made up of grandparents, parents, and children. In any given town there are some people that will only go to a well established church and others who only go to exciting new works.

By: Groove

Groove — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:49:08 +0000

We need these thoughts, thanks

By: Alan Sheriff

Alan Sheriff — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:44:09 +0000

Great points! Here are a couple more I thought of…

It forcefully pushes forward the Kingdom of God in 2 ways
1) It forces the whole church to partake in evangelism for there to continue to be a church
2) It forces people to step out of their comfort zones and grow personally closer to God.

It also allows new and more people to step up in leadership, preparing a new generation of trained and experienced leaders for tomorrow’s Church.