AEC2001
Anabaptist Evangelism Council
Plenary Session 3:
The Ten Most Important Things
I’ve Learned
about Church Planting
Stuart Murray
Oasis Director of Church Planting and Evangelism and Lecturer
Spurgeon's College, London, England
Introduction
This final session is concerned not about major cultural
changes or about specifically Anabaptist approaches to church planting –
though both will continue to influence my choice of topics and some of my
comments on these – but with the nitty-gritty of church planting. In what
follows I am drawing on my own experience of being a church planter in London,
the training course I have run for the past eight years, numerous conversations
with others involved in church planting, and issues that recur frequently when I
provide consultancy for church planters.
I offer comments on these ten areas with two reservations.
First, it is very difficult to choose ten or to assess what are the most
important issues to cover. Second, I know the church planting scene is quite
different from Britain in the US and Canada (though I suspect Canada may be
rather closer to the British context). Many American books on church planting do
not cross the Atlantic well. And it is on the practical issues that we will
explore in this session that the differing context may show up more clearly than
in the previous sessions. But, with these disclaimers, here are ten things I
have learned about church planting.
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