Evangelism through church planting.

July 27, 2010

Peter Wagner stated some 25 years ago that "church planting was the most effective evangelistic methodology known under heaven". His statement still rings true today. New churches, by a large margin, are reaching new people with the gospel with far greater efficacy than their established counterparts. That may not be a very popular statement, but research has verified Wagner's assumption.

If that is true, then why aren't more churches intentionally focused on pouring their resources into new churches? Instead the typical church today pours the vast amount of its resources into taking care of the sheep rather than expanding the fold. In doing so, these churches lose their missional passion for the lost and soon drift into an era of plateau, decline and death. Typical church programming often steals energy and time from the original mission focus of the church.

I have always believed that "church planting" while never explicitly used in the Bible, was implicitly understood within the context of the Great Commission. In other words, every church should be involved in the process of evangelism through church planting. Imagine what might happen if churches caught the vision for evangelism through planting and started investing thier limited resources in new churches! But is this truly evangelism?

Tim Stafford says it best in his article, in Christianity Today: so follow this link and read this great article.

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