Cassendur Mus’s Reviews > Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting > Status Update

“What also troubles me is that in some North American contexts, the family is not seen as a part of the missionary team, but rather as a secondary importance to the work.” (Pg. 297-298)

Before receiving an invitation to join your team, a potential member should have a proven history of manifesting eight significant practices: • Walks with the Lord • Maintains an outstanding character • Serves the local church • Remains faithful to the call • Shares the gospel regularly • Raises up leaders • Encourages others with speech and actions • Responds appropriately to conflict.” (Pg. 244)

“Most churches do not believe they can help in the area of finances because the church itself owns a very costly piece of property and a building and after ten years is still paying off debt.” “Churches should not assume that what they own is necessary for a church to be planted.”
(Pg. 224-225)

“Unfortunately, many individuals and churches approach the billions of unbelievers in a very haphazard manner without a Matthew 28:19/Revelation 7:9 vision, significant goals, and intentional action steps.” (Pg. 152)

“It is better to put an imperfect plan into operation than to carry on splendid church and mission work while waiting for then perfect plan to appear.” - Donald A. McGavran

“Poor discipleship training in the lives of new believers will interrupt the spread of the Gospel across a people group or population segment.” (Pg. 104)
“In the West we have come to believe that if we are giving disciples the right facts about God, then our task is complete. The greatest commandment & Great Commission contradict such practice. Rather, the Church is to teach obedience (Mat 28:20).” (Pg. 105)

“I have known of church planters who labor for years among certain peoples without seeing anyone process faith in Christ. If a church-planting team comes from a Western culture that prizes production and abhors the inefficient use of time, it is no wonder that many church planters begin well by doing evangelism, but then shift to doing nonevangelisitic tasks.” (Pg. 98)

“Financial resources are not the real sinews of war in this fight. Machinery in itself carried no power to break down heathen walls, open effectual doors, and win heathen hearts to Christ. Prayer alone can do the deed.” - E.M. Bounds

“Wise church planters allow the Spirit to guide them to the people he is going to use to birth his church. It was through such guidance that the Spirit took Paul and Silas to the households of Lydia and the Philippian jailer and birthed the Philippian Church (Acts 16:14-15, 32-33).

“The paternalistic ecclesiology imposes the church planters desired expression of church organization and structure onto the people.”

“The final step in the paternalistic ecclesiological method takes the church planters to the Scriptures to find support for their preconceived notions about church-planting activities.”

“Particularly, in the west, the Church is number hungry. We want to equate the advancement of the Gospel and the expansion of the kingdom with the number of new churches started.”

“I would argue strongly that church starters seek biblical-theological training because church planting is a deeply theological enterprise.”