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Essay / Church Planting - 1522
IntroductionOver the years, church planters have passionately embarked on planting churches across the world, at great expense, in obedience to God's call . Some have used the mother church method and the cell or house church method in cross-cultural contexts. Some planters believe that it is the quality of their planting methods, effective advertising, attractive programs, mission teams and resources that will make their church planting successful. While these are helpful, the central factor is the God of mission who, through the work of the Holy Spirit and the Gospel, reveals Himself to people, convicts them of sin, transforms them, and brings them salvation. Hi. For greater effectiveness, planters with the right mix of spiritual gifts, including evangelism and evangelism, missionary leadership, pastoral care skills, good administrative gifts, and physical strength, are helpful in leading missionary work. The Church functions to participate in God's ongoing mission with the mandate to proclaim the Gospel. Proclaiming the Gospel requires crossing cultural barriers and planting churches in the social context of the missionary community, among other things, planters have lessons to learn from these past experiences. Church planting is an important topic, although it often does not receive the attention it needs. For example, to summarize the report of the working group of the Church of England's Board of Mission and Public Affairs, in the late 1970s church planting in England was largely unknown, although the The Church of England was familiar with the idea of daughter churches, and in the ten years after each world war the general century-wide decline in the opening of new churches was reversed. The report notes that: ...thought on church growth came to the UK via......middle of document......S4241EN_L07.pdf; accessed 08/09/11Raising up - http://ubahouston.org/files/New%20Work/Raising%20Up%20Church%20Planters%20by%20Glenn%20Smith.pdf ; accessed 09/08/11Principles of Church Planting - http://www.missionaleurasia.com/downloads/english/external/Principles of_Church_Planting.pdf; accessed 09/08/11Church planting and the great mission: part 2 http://www.abcog.org/plant2.htm; accessed 08/09/11http://ecoggins.hubpages.com/hub/Seven-Steps-to-Effective-Church-Planting; accessed 08/09/11 http://saddleback.com/aboutsaddleback/history/ ; accessed 09/19/11www.newchurchinitiatives.org/.../CPArticle0206LessonsfromTheEagles.pdf; accessed 08/09/11http://voices.yahoo.com/church-body-christ-4190411.html?cat=34; accessed 10/28/11http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+16%3A15&version=NASB; consulted on 08/09/11