THE ROLE AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH IN CHURCH PLANTING
“As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.” (Acts 13:2)
The Great Commission is church planting. We cannot fulfill the great commission if churches do not reach their Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and the uttermost.
THE ROLE OF THE PASTOR IN REPRODUC- ING A NEW CHURCH
Since we believe that churches reproduce churches and that the responsibility of reproducing a new church rests on local churches and not the church planter or mission agencies, we need to define the role of the pastor of the reproducing church.
The devil loves church planting. Mormon churches, Kingdom Halls, mosques, and doctrinally-weak Christian churches are all fruit of Satan’s plan to twist the true, biblical church-planting model.
