Why Plant

Churches?
 The End of Acts
 AC 28:30 And he stayed two full
years in his own rented quarters and
was welcoming all who came to him,
 AC 28:31 preaching the kingdom of
God and teaching concerning the
Lord Jesus Christ with all openness,
unhindered.
 DEYO -
UNHINDERED
Two main hindrances to the
gospel
 Complacency

 Fear of man
 Numerical
1990 2001 Change
growth
% adults % adults in %
   in %
   point
terms   
  

Total Christian           88.4%           81.1%       -7.3%  +5.3%

  

     Total non-Christian
3.5% 5.2%    +1.7% +69.1%
     religions

      No Religion/
8.4% 15.0% +6.6% +105.7%
     Atheist/Agnostic 
 Nine Reasons Why We
Should Plant New Churches
 It’s the biblical pattern
 New churches are more efficient in
evangelizing.
 There are many people not yet being
reached.
 We need to reach the new culture,
worship, and language that evolves
over time.
 The nature of the church directs us
toward church planting.
 Nine Reasons Why We
Should Plant New Churches
 New churches often exhibit more life
than older ones.
 It is one of the best ways to allow for
the development of new leadership
and to utilize the gifts and talents of
the members.
 To reach the unchurched, we need to
offer them a variety of options.
 Congregations that die need to be
replaced.
 Common Objections to
Church Planting
 It will harm the parent church.
 The start-up cost is too high.

 It breaks up the Christian fellowship

we have; it’s a violation of love
and/or unity.
 Paul’s Walk
 Phil 3:7 But whatever things were
gain to me, those things I have
counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
 Phil 3:8 More than that, I count all
things to be loss in view of the
surpassing value of knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord, for whom I have
suffered the loss of all things, and
count them but rubbish so that I may
gain Christ,
 Paul’s Walk
 Phil 3:9 and may be found in Him, not
having a righteousness of my own derived
from the Law, but that which is through
faith in Christ, the righteousness which
comes from God on the basis of faith,
 Phil 3:10 that I may know Him and the
power of His resurrection and the
fellowship of His sufferings, being
conformed to His death;
 Phil 3:11 in order that I may attain to the
resurrection from the dead.
 Paul’s Walk
 Phil 3:12 Not that I have already obtained
it or have already become perfect, but I
press on so that I may lay hold of that for
which also I was laid hold of by Christ
Jesus.
 Phil 3:13 Brethren, I do not regard myself
as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I
do: forgetting what lies behind and
reaching forward to what lies ahead,
 Phil 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the
prize of the upward call of God in Christ
 Paul’s Walk
 Phil 3:15 Let us therefore, as many
as are perfect, have this attitude;
and if in anything you have a
different attitude, God will reveal
that also to you;
 Phil 3:16 however, let us keep living
by that same standard to which we
have attained.
 Phil 3:17 Brethren, join in following
my example, and observe those who
walk according to the pattern you
 Paul’s Walk
 Phil 3:20 For our citizenship is in
heaven, from which also we eagerly
wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ;
 Phil 3:21 who will transform the body
of our humble state into conformity
with the body of His glory, by the
exertion of the power that He has
even to subject all things to Himself.