Quote of the Week

I picked our quote this week to go along with the SOFM topic we reviewed the other day.   One of the things we try to do when discussing church planting principles is to boil things down to the essentials, and then allow the Holy Spirit to guide the new church as they figure out how that expression looks in their culture.  One of the goals we talk about is that a new believer should be able to come to a church gathering and walk away feeling that they can reproduce the elements used; worship, the Word, giving, etc.  This allows them to quickly become active participants in church rather than spectators. 

"If what we model before others is only reproducible by people like us, then our disciple making & planting methods are too complex.” - JD Payne

Image taken from "Keys to Church Planting Movements" by K. Sutter & B. Hogan