I often hear from church planters in North America:
Of these 37 local churches, there are no gospel preaching churches in this community.
These churches are not Reformed enough (Or, These churches are too Reformed.).
They preach the gospel, but it’s not really deep. Just John 3:16 kinda stuff every week.
These churches are too formal.
Their music is Baptist Hymnal stuff. I’m talking 1975, not 1991; that doesn’t appeal to young families (Or, Their music is too contemporary. They need more hymns.).
When will we realize church planting is an apostolic work of evangelism that results in new churches (see Acts 13-14)?
In our Baskin-Robbins of Christianity, why must our church planting actions come from the desire to provide another choice of flavor to long-term Kingdom citizens?
The four billion remain.
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Amen!