Friday, February 17, 2006

Church Planting

John Piper offers four reasons why we should be planting more churches:

  1. We do not have too many churches today. We have too few.
  2. Experience has shown, and the Bible would support, that new churches are one of the most effective means of evangelism.
  3. New churches awaken and engage much of the under-used leadership potential of the saints in the older, larger churches.
  4. Breaking free from the risk-free comfort of long-standing patterns of church life is a good thing. It’s good for your faith to be tested. It is good to take risks.
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