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Church Planting Essay
Introduction
Over the years, church planters passionately stepped into church planting across the globe at great costs in obedience to God's call. Some used the
mother–church method and cell or house church method in cross–cultural settings. Some planters believe that it is the quality of their planting
methods, effective publicity, attractive programmes, missional teams and resources that will make theirchurch plant successful. Whereas these are
helpful, the central factor is the God of mission, who, through the work of the Holy Spirit and the gospel reveals himself to people, convicts of
sin, transforms people and brings them salvation.
For effectiveness, planters with the right mix of spiritual gifts including outreach and...show more content...
This growth was understood as developing the work of existing churches, not creating additional ones. This may have assisted the birth of a more
outward–looking church, but was not a direct precursor of church planting and helpfully has often been confused with it. Only three expressions
of church were planted in 1978, and of those, one was the reopening of a closed church building. It is not clear why, by 1983, this number of
church plants had trebled to nine...In 1984 the first book on the subject was published for the English market – How to Plant Churches – from the
British Church Growth Association.
From the above, one realises that it is worth learning from planting experiences of the past. Some causes of failure in church planting in the past
include poor administrative structures, poor planning, ineffective and inefficient leadership, lack of focus, cultural unawareness, ignorance and
inadequate facilities and resources. Answering the question is church planting passГ©; the working group stated from their research of planting
experience that:
After the 1990s' peak of interest in church planting, there came a stream of other supposed solutions to mission ineffectiveness: Seeker Services,
the Toronto blessing, the Alpha course, Cell church, Celtic Worship, Pensicola Revival and most recently the 'Transforming Communities' videos.
Many of these initiatives have been wrongly interpreted as offering a 'quick fix' to the mission dilemma of the
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Church Planting Essay

  • 1. Church Planting Essay Introduction Over the years, church planters passionately stepped into church planting across the globe at great costs in obedience to God's call. Some used the mother–church method and cell or house church method in cross–cultural settings. Some planters believe that it is the quality of their planting methods, effective publicity, attractive programmes, missional teams and resources that will make theirchurch plant successful. Whereas these are helpful, the central factor is the God of mission, who, through the work of the Holy Spirit and the gospel reveals himself to people, convicts of sin, transforms people and brings them salvation. For effectiveness, planters with the right mix of spiritual gifts including outreach and...show more content... This growth was understood as developing the work of existing churches, not creating additional ones. This may have assisted the birth of a more outward–looking church, but was not a direct precursor of church planting and helpfully has often been confused with it. Only three expressions of church were planted in 1978, and of those, one was the reopening of a closed church building. It is not clear why, by 1983, this number of church plants had trebled to nine...In 1984 the first book on the subject was published for the English market – How to Plant Churches – from the British Church Growth Association. From the above, one realises that it is worth learning from planting experiences of the past. Some causes of failure in church planting in the past include poor administrative structures, poor planning, ineffective and inefficient leadership, lack of focus, cultural unawareness, ignorance and inadequate facilities and resources. Answering the question is church planting passГ©; the working group stated from their research of planting experience that: After the 1990s' peak of interest in church planting, there came a stream of other supposed solutions to mission ineffectiveness: Seeker Services, the Toronto blessing, the Alpha course, Cell church, Celtic Worship, Pensicola Revival and most recently the 'Transforming Communities' videos. Many of these initiatives have been wrongly interpreted as offering a 'quick fix' to the mission dilemma of the Get more content on HelpWriting.net