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Why Plant a Church?
(The Top Ten List for Starting New Churches)
10. New churches give a group of connected, established churches shared
energy in their community.
Starting new healthy churches in the same general vicinity increases the influence
of all. Churches are best started where a group has strength, not in distant
areas.
9. New churches are a test laboratory for church leadership development.
They give a whole new group of emerging leaders the chance to grow and
develop as primary leaders.
8. New churches provide excellent on-the-job training for young pastors.
They provide a channel to express the energy and ideas of young pastors.
7. New churches are the research and development unit of God's Kingdom.
Many of the models and visions for healthy churches are developed in
new and turnaround churches.
6. New churches grow exponentially faster than established churches.
In
a typical evangelical denomination, new churches (in the first 10 years)
were found to grow at a rate 23 times faster than established churches
(over 10 years old).
5. New churches are needed to help stem the tide of ideological moral
erosion in America.
The ideological opposition to Biblical Christianity
will not primarily come from mainline liberals, nor from scientific
modernism (as it did for the last generation), but from New Age nonrational
thinking and from politically correct, valueless morals.
4. New churches have historically been the best method for reaching
each emerging new generation.
Every new generation needs churches that
speak the Gospel in their cultural understanding and communication style.
3. New churches are the only truly effective way to reach the growing
ethnic populations of America.
California is now over 50% non-anglo and
that percentage is growing. Every people group needs to hear the Gospel
in a way that makes sense to their culture.
2. New churches are needed because the large majority of Americans do
not attend a local church.
About 20 % of Americans attend a local church
on any given Sunday. Many of those attend a church where they do not
clearly hear the message of salvation in Jesus.
1. New churches seem to be more effective than established churches
at conversion growth.
Studies show that new churches have 3 - 4 times
the conversion rate per member as established churches.
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