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Why is it Church Planters Rarely Plant a Church
Statistics on overall attrition cover some of this, but many missionaries who remain within a mission agency do not finish their primary mission (planting a church). Of course the question “What does it mean to finish?” can be defined a lot of ways.
Cell Phones, Facebook, Computers and Completing the Great Commission
With all the potential for good, the reality is that improper use of these technologies is hurting us in a few critical ways. Missionaries may live overseas, even learn some language and gather much data about a culture… and still not be there as a real part of the community. The loneliness, that historically drove missionaries into the social fabric in the areas they worked in, slowly disappeared.
Why Focus on Pioneer Church Planting
Why focus on church planting? The short answer is… because healthy New Testament churches do not organically “spring up” among new converts on their own. [New converts need] believers to walk them through this new identity of being a Christ follower and the implications it has on their previous religious, clan, tribal and family relationships.