Community%20Survey%20Manual%20-%20Revised%20March06. Conducting a Community Needs Survey | ChurchETHOS. New Churches. Church Planting - Church Plant. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Church planting is the process of someone starting a new church in a certain locale. The focus is often on the church plant or on starting a church and often the objective or purpose of why the church was started in the first place is all but forgotten.
However, when we examine scripture, there’s no commission in the Bible to start a church. The commission is to make disciples. However, in order to make disciples as instructed by the Lord in the Great Commission, there needs to be structure. Many people often refer to the church as a building. Since the heart of the Great Commission is making disciples, and discipleship flows through the veins of the church, there’s no way to accomplish the Great Commission without the church.
But what is the process to plant a church Biblically? The Apostle Paul had a strategy to plant churches. However, Paul wasn’t stuck on this one strategy or method. Paul’s Church Planting Strategies. I. On Making Disciples as a Strategic Focus Brandon Price posted on his blog ( link ) that he was “growing kind of uncomfortable with the term ‘church planting.’” He said that term, “seems to put all the focus on creating a church (an often location-based institution), and nowhere in scripture are we told to go and make churches. Instead, the church is a natural outflow of what our actual call is: making disciples.” He is reframing their work of planting churches as “making disciples.” When you look at church planting through the lens of Making Disciples, the transformation of people comes more clearly into focus. We also have a biblical definition and model of what it means to be a disciple. “Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Finally, Brian Russell sums the focus on discipleship and disciplemaking nicely on his blog ( link ): “Discipleship at its heart is missional. II. III. Making Disciples who make disciples IV. V. VI. IX. 2000_census_pgh_jan06. (5) Baptist Church Planters. Baptist Church Planters. How To Plant A Church - Church Planting. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.
Thanks for visiting! The scriptures in Acts Chapter 14 reveals to us 10 steps to a Biblical model of the church planting process. In Acts 14:21-28, we see how Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey began the new churches in Galatia. 1. The first thing they did was they preached. Acts 14:21 tells us they preached the gospel to that city. The went to the word of God and gave people the gospel.
Paul knew it’s not what you say, but what your listener hears that makes the difference. The practical application here for the church planter starting a new church is not to get hung up on a method or even a couple of methods. Paul preached to crowds, he ministered to individuals. 2. The word teach in this context in Greek gives us our word disciple. So in other words, the practical application is you preach and then you teach those who respond. The word teach means to disciple. This is what Paul is doing here.