Do We Need More Church Planting?
"As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give" Matthew 10:8 When I pastored in America I followed a pattern of Church leadership that I had been taught for almost thirty years. Even though the church I pastored in America was not related to those churches , their church model heavily influenced me, it's all I had really known. I was able to build a network of thirty-five churches in three years. These were based in the US, Nepal, Pakistan, and Kenya. At the end of that season of pastoring I was offered to take over the care of twenty churches in India. I chose to say "no" to that offer, even though I had ministered powerfully in one of those churches on a visit there, hence the invitation to oversee those churches. That would've been 55 churches within our small network, in three years, if I had accepted. Ov...