Church Planting: Key Principles (continued)

This is the second of three posts in which I identify 7 key principles for church planting. The first two (Gospel and Church) can be found here.

Key Principle 3: Think Leaders

Although the term ‘church planting’ was not coined until the mid 1960s, the practice has a long and noble history. The Baptists planted in the seventeenth century, so too the Methodists in the eighteenth century and CH Spurgeon, among others, in the nineteenth century. In all of these examples, whatever the historical distinctives, the theological differences and the cultural variations, one issue keeps cropping up, namely leadership. Sometimes they were called ‘messengers’, other times they were called ‘evangelists’ but whatever the title, they were vital catalysts in helping new churches form.

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May 10th, 2012 | from Steve Timmis