Christianity: Details about 'Church Planting'

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Church planting is a process by which churches are begun in new areas.

Christian denominations such as Evangelicals view church planting as a necessary adjunct to the work of evangelism.

Church planting can occur in a number of different ways:

A pastor begins a church on his own, simply via advertising and social contacts.
A small group of people begin a church together, with or without a pastor.
An established church splits (either because of disagreements or to plant a new church deliberately) and two churches result.
An apostle or church planter plants a church using the methods employed by the apostle Paul.

Churches do

not necessarily have to own their buildings, and many churches have been planted using school or community halls, and even people's houses. Over the last century there has been a great movement in the Christian faith to restore the New Testament model of church planting. Past writers such as Roland Allen and Watchman Nee have written extensively on the subject. Today, writers like and have written books on the apostolic model for church planting.

See the expansion of the Church in the Third world and in places such as China and North Korea.

Christianity: Details about 'Church Planting'

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