Should
we still plant churches?
Not exact matches
2013 UPDATE: I am no longer in «
church planting» but I am
still in «missions.»
Second, the conference is being hosted by Square 1
Church Planting, which was founded by two guys (Joe Centrino and Stephen Hammond) who have actually
planted churches and are
still pastoring
churches.
Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), a network of Reformed
church plants in 21 countries
still dealing with the aftermath of an internal investigation of founder and president C. J. Mahaney's leadership, now faces allegations that its president and board chairman, among other leaders, covered up child sex abuse by
church members.
If you are
still trying to impress seminary professors with your preaching skills... don't
plant a
church.
Immanuel is only a few years old and
still small, but they have already
planted The Axis
Church in a different part of the city.
It just saddens me that you seem to have gotten sidetracked in a vain quest to «change the world» thru
planting «
churches» that are not in fact
churches --- at least not if you
still accept the authority of the scriptures and it's definition of what constitutes the Body of Christ, both universally and locally.
Denominations
still matter — and they actually, for example, do most of the
church planting in North America.
Even if we did someday
plant a
church (which we haven't done and
still don't feel compelled to do) it would be from a place of relationship and wisdom rather than a sense of «I'll just show up and show»em all how it's done.»
Anyhow, I am
still not a part of that
church anymore and actually went back to the one that we
planted out of.
Dr Virpi Lummaa, from the Department of Animal and
Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield, and Dr Elisabeth Bolund, now at the Uppsala University in Sweden, used genealogical records collected from Finnish
churches starting at the beginning of the 18th century and
still being collected today.
The Intervenors» adjudication of the
Church Rock Section 8 site has been completed except for appeals, with the case
still pending for three other mining sites -
Church Rock Section 17, Unit I west of Crownpoint, and the central processing
plant site and wellfields in the town of Crownpoint.
They all realize they've uncovered something that has the makings of becoming the crime of a
still young century, one that will rattle pillars, not just in Boston or in Rome, but everywhere around the globe where the Catholic
Church plants a footprint.