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Why True Church Planting Must Start with Conversion

Why True Church Planting Must Start with Conversion

We’ve focused so much on church planting teams and strategies that we’ve forgotten what church planting is really all about: conversions.
We’ve focused so much on church planting teams and strategies that we’ve forgotten what church planting is really all about: conversions.
Apr 20 2021
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Dietrich Schindler

For 35 years TEAM missionary Dietrich Schindler and his wife, Jan, have made their home in Germany. Dietrich has a Europe-wide reach as a speaker, consultant and leader of church planters. He is on the board of Exponential Europe and is the author of an evangelistic tool, MyLife-Workshop, that invites post moderns to discover the gospel. Dietrich is a graduate of Columbia International University, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and has an earned doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary. He wrote his dissertation on “Creating and Sustaining a Church Planting Multiplication Movement in Germany in a Free Church Context.”

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Michelle

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Many contemporary church-planting ministries are conceived much like a business. The model centers on administrative, gifted leadership that guides already-committed Christians to organize the birth of a new church. But can I be bold and say this isn‘t a true “birth,“ but rather a reorganization of believers from one location to another? Therein lies the crisis of contemporary church planting in the Western world: organizing churches without birthing them. See if this sounds familiar: A called and gifted leader inspires other Christians to start a new church. They meet regularly to pray, plan and lay out a strategy they’ll use…

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