Comments on: A few thoughts on multiplying churches http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/05/14/a-few-thoughts-on-multiplying-churches.html Steve Addison's blog about movements for the renewal and expansion of the church. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:38:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dave http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/05/14/a-few-thoughts-on-multiplying-churches.html#comment-105657 Dave Wed, 14 May 2008 14:40:52 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/?p=1252#comment-105657 Steve, Good stuff. Your comments on the smaller Churches is worth special note. Size doen't matter! In fact we could say that the most spontaneous growth is often coming from grass root movements that are house based. This might be the case in China and India. In contrast in africa and other places it is often the big Churches that are catalytic to church planting movements. Churches like teh Redeemed Christian Church of God http://www.rccg.org/ would have to be a great example. Big or small, we are all called to multiply. Dave Steve,
Good stuff. Your comments on the smaller Churches is worth special note. Size doen’t matter! In fact we could say that the most spontaneous growth is often coming from grass root movements that are house based. This might be the case in China and India. In contrast in africa and other places it is often the big Churches that are catalytic to church planting movements. Churches like teh Redeemed Christian Church of God http://www.rccg.org/ would have to be a great example. Big or small, we are all called to multiply.
Dave

]]> By: Steve http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/05/14/a-few-thoughts-on-multiplying-churches.html#comment-105618 Steve Wed, 14 May 2008 12:42:19 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/?p=1252#comment-105618 Tomas, I found a more direct link to the resources on church planting in Europe: http://www.ecpn.org/content.php?section_id=9&content_type_id=59 Tomas, I found a more direct link to the resources on church planting in Europe:

http://www.ecpn.org/content.php?section_id=9&content_type_id=59

]]> By: Steve http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/05/14/a-few-thoughts-on-multiplying-churches.html#comment-105616 Steve Wed, 14 May 2008 12:34:30 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/?p=1252#comment-105616 Tomas, good questions. My bias is that we need all sorts of churches, different in style and approach that are faithful to the Gospel and multiplying. We need small churches/groups that are multiplying and large churches that are multiplying. Leadership Network has just released a study of church planting in Europe. It's available here: http://www.leadnet.org/Resources_Downloads.asp?IsSubmit=True You may need to register first. It's free and some great resources on church planting. There's also another ministry I've just discovered: the European Church Planting Network. http://www.ecpn.org Tomas, good questions.

My bias is that we need all sorts of churches, different in style and approach that are faithful to the Gospel and multiplying. We need small churches/groups that are multiplying and large churches that are multiplying.

Leadership Network has just released a study of church planting in Europe.

It’s available here: http://www.leadnet.org/Resources_Downloads.asp?IsSubmit=True

You may need to register first. It’s free and some great resources on church planting.

There’s also another ministry I’ve just discovered: the European Church Planting Network.

http://www.ecpn.org

]]> By: Tomas http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/05/14/a-few-thoughts-on-multiplying-churches.html#comment-105587 Tomas Wed, 14 May 2008 10:41:08 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/?p=1252#comment-105587 This is great stuff to read about. it gives me good reason to not believe that you have to be a large church before starting to plant new churches. However, might the necessary size of a church before planting differ from context to context? For instance, in Sweden churches are in a very harsh environment. It might be necessary with larger churches to gain momentum in church planting. What do you think? Are there any similar surveys from other contexts? This is great stuff to read about. it gives me good reason to not believe that you have to be a large church before starting to plant new churches. However, might the necessary size of a church before planting differ from context to context? For instance, in Sweden churches are in a very harsh environment. It might be necessary with larger churches to gain momentum in church planting. What do you think? Are there any similar surveys from other contexts?

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