» Brian Hogan

Series: Why don’t we see dynamic church planting movements in the West of the same magnitude that we are see in many parts of the developing world?

I believe that one part of the equation is that in almost every case they are starting fresh – among the unreached. Our hide-bound traditional church cultures are a very real impediment to seeing God do a brand-new thing. We want revival of our existing structures, not whole new somethings popping out of the ground like mushrooms in the forest. We want, in essence, new wine in these old wineskins. And Jesus told us that he doesn’t do that and that we shouldn’t either.

I have hope for an initiative where simple campus churches are being planted in dorm rooms. This is new and doesn’t conflict (much) with the existing church power bases, and so stays mostly off the radar. Students are mostly unchurched (the Western equivalent of unreached?) and don’t have much traditional baggage. Jaeson Ma, of Campus Church Networks, has been seeing some very promising beginnings in the USA (and East Asia as well!). I would suggest everyone check out CCNs site and pray about how to bring this vision into your local campuses.

I also feel like a God-sent revolution is just beginning that is preparing the way for multiplication among the hordes of unchurched Westerners. George Barna’s Revolution outlines what I see going on very well.

Nuff said,
Brian Hogan


“Revolution” (George Barna)