resourcefile :: church planting

As a family of churches we are committed to planting churches across UK and Europe, by raising the profile of church planting across our churches, and developing training, support and resourcing.

The full list of resources can be accessed from the Church Planting menu to the left.

And, please do let us know if you find any good resources, websites, articles, training materials, etc. that would benefit others.

Why church-plant?

The advance of God's community :: Terry Virgo observes, in his challenging article, that we should not be pragmatic about church planting ("the most effective form of evangelism"), rather to see it as the advance of God's community in the earth. Otherwise, Virgo says, we are in danger of missing the point!

Practical provocation

Put your right head on! :: Steve Thomas, European Team Leader, appeals that we put the right head on as we approach church planting. Is its too hard - or are is the harvest ready?

Half full or half empty? :: A conversation with Colin Baron, church-planter/ prophet/ stirrer (he wouldn't mind being called that!) certainly got the European Apostolic Team thinking, and smashed a few sacred cows!

Quote

Who should start a new church?
The NT does not seem to give one simple answer. Philip the evangelist penetrated Samaria, saw many converts and gathered a community. The apostle Paul operated similarly in many towns. But not only apostles and evangelists founded new churches. It seems that scattered, persecuted believers went everywhere preaching the gospel. Even the influential Antioch church was started by unnamed believers, helped later by the arrival of Barnabas sent from the apostolic base in Jerusalem. … A number of believers moving into a new area can start a church drawing help from the visits of travelling foundation-laying ministries.

Terry Virgo, from A People Prepared