Church Planting: From Members to Mobilizers
As individual local churches seek to increase their membership, it becomes easy to overlook the larger context. We need intentional people mobilized for church planting and replanting to reach our city and beyond.
Author
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Church Planting
Church Planting: From Members to Mobilizers
As individual local churches seek to increase their membership, it becomes easy to overlook the larger context. We need intentional people mobilized for church planting and replanting to reach our city and beyond.
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Members
- Church is more than a building you visit or a service you attend.
- The trivial reasons why people church shop indicates our priorities regarding membership.
- The health of our church depends on our concern for the global Church.
Scripture (Acts 13:1-3)
- What were the characteristics of this pivotal church?
- The Word Was Central – Our practices should be motivated and monitored by Scripture.
- The People Were Diverse – Churches that focus on their unity in Christ reflect diversity among their members.
- The Focus Was Upward – It’s difficult to hear from the Spirit if we don’t anticipate Him speaking.
- The Task Was Forefront – Church gatherings are meant to motivate those present for the ones who are absent.
- The Sending Was Expected – Those who send will feel the loss of those who go.
Mobilizers
- Churches that don’t learn how to multiply will eventually divide.
- Our job is to raise people up and send them out in every aspect of our church.
- The Recommission Network seeks to plant and replant healthy churches who align for gospel advancement in Greenville County.
- How You Can Help
- Adjust your worship, group, and service schedule to provide space for others.
- Consider how you could invest the next year of your life to see a partnering church thrive.
- Live like a missionary in Greenville County.
