A church plant is the “child” of a successful church.
Carefully consider what elements to incorporate:
- Unreached demographics
- Things the current church does incorrectly
- Rituals believers should do more
- Portions of the culture to keep from the old church
Don’t make a church plant unless the situation makes it necessary.
- A small church is a gathering of mostly volunteers, so it needs much more timing and placement than missionaries.
- A church plant won’t gain many new believers in a nation that freely permits the Gospel message everywhere.
Church plants only come from a few good purposes:
- A missionary has been reaping new converts enough that the region requires more support.
- The church is changing venues or splitting, and enough members want to risk starting a new gathering.
- A church had been practicing heresy and the true Christians left to establish a new church.