Planting Worship-Based Churches

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:

  1. A missionary has been reaping new converts enough that the region requires more support.
  2. The church is changing venues or splitting, and enough members want to risk starting a new gathering.
  3. A church had been practicing heresy and the true Christians left to establish a new church.