Church Planting Naturally: Written by the Hand of Paul
Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ), 2010
For eight years, I have rigorously worked overseas to forward the goal of church multiplication. For much of that time we worked on a team crossing denominational and organizational lines to train, envision, and encourage churches to multiply. After eight years, we saw at least sixty new churches, but we also witnessed several derailments and a few crashes. Although I wish those derailments never occurred, I believe we learn only through a combination of success and failure. We sat down with local leaders to discuss lessons learned and some of the shortcomings in multiplicative strategies. As for what we learned through the successes, we found that these principles were already written plainly by the hand of Paul...
