Planting

I was thinking about the idea of church planting today, not for the sake of actually starting a new church but for the sake of re-planting a current church to see if there could be more blooms... What gardner would not want to see more blooms in the springtime?!

The reason I am thinking along the lines of church-planting is due to the desires of some individuals from the church where I belong; to create more of an opportunity of outreach to the community through the establishment of a new class. I am a part of this team that will, prayerfully, help implement this vision and to be honest, I have no idea what God is going to do (of course!) and in the interim, have no idea what I need to do:) So thru prayer it has come to my thought processes that our efforts of establishing a new class is in a way, similar to planting a new church. Aside from the vision of this new class, 2 goals remain in site; Glorify God and Build His Kingdom. With that being said, I think that we should all be responsible in church-planting, and I will elaborate why.

Church planting.

A concept that has not created enough desire within me to learn more about until...now. Ed Stetzer wrote a book called, "Planting Missional Churches", in which he enscribes that church planters should be: missional, incarnational, theological, ecclesiological, and spiritual. I want to breakdown these 5 terms described by Ed. This is going to be a blog broken down over 2 days. Below will be the general concept of the 5 terms mentioned previous. Tomorrow, hopefully, I will complete my analysis of the terms.

Missional: How we approach people.

Incarnational: What is actually happening.

Theological: Gospel.

Ecclesiological: Church does matter.

Spiritual: Christ-centered.

...to be continued:)

**And let me know your thoughts!