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Old 04-02-2008, 10:02 AM
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Based on what you've shared, I sense that there is a need in you for knowledge and clarity about church planting. If you think planting a church is like starting a restaurant, then it may imply that you see worshiping believers who may be part of your plant as mere patrons, and that you're approach to starting a church is corporate business strategy. And there are many churches who have "successfully" planted themselves using such an approach. Whether these churches are biblically successful or secularly successful is the critical question.

If you want to be secularly successful, then sure, start a new church using all your business savvy strategies. And the number of clients/patrons/customers will roll in. If you want to be biblically successful, however, training and rethinking is needed for you to see why the business approach is unacceptable. And denominations vary in their funding support. If you find the denomination approach to funding your plant as not lining up with your business mindset, then you'll have to either change your way of thinking to one that is more biblical (in my opinion) or find a different denomination.
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