Letters to Nicolay # 2

writing_a_letter168h.jpgDear Nicolay,

Greetings, dear brother!  I hope your family is well.  Greet your wife, Anna, and children for me.

Nicolay, I should probably define what I mean by “a church planting movement”.

Neil Cole who was with us in Kiev in November of 2006 describes a church planting movement as follows:

“A rapid and multiplying increase of indigenous churches planting churches…”
It is not:
  • Church planting without multi-generational reproduction.
  • Gathering Christians from other churches to form new churches.
  • By revival meetings and evangelistic crusades.
  • A centralized leadership development or church planting training center that sends out many church planters.

Evidence of a movement:
  • Simple and reproducible strategies that release common, ordinary Christians for uncommon work.
  • Witness and multiplication that is natural and spontaneous.
  • Reproduction at every level and every part of the churches.
  • Interdependence among the churches – not unhealthy independence nor dependence.

I hope this helps a little.  I am convinced that a church planting movement is possible if we align ourselves to the ways of the Holy Spirit.

One example which shows we do not have a movement is a most recent plan which encouraged 24 existing churches to plant one (1) church.  God help us!

Blessings,
Rich Correll
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    January 27 2009

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