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The next big thing” in church always tends to comes in waves. In the 1980s, it was youth ministry. It seemed that everyone had to be a youth pastor talking about the culture and challenging kids to take their high schools for Christ. In the 1990s, it was Christian counseling. Everyone in ministry took on the title of 34 Viral Churches counselor. Today, it’s cool to be a church planter. All the real leaders are doing it. But is that really all that’s needed? Church planting is worthwhile only if it advances God’s kingdom—God’s area of reign in human hearts here on earth.
Fifty years ago, if church members wanted to do a better job of sharing the Gospel with their neighbors, they invited an evangelist to come to town. ” As fewer and fewer churches used such approaches, people found new angles, such as bus ministry or the personal sharing of Gospel tracts. Over time additional approaches emerged that seemed to work better for people to share the good news about Jesus with their families, friends, and neighbors. Christian movies, from 1992’s A Thief in the Night to 2008’s Fireproof, were designed to communicate the Gospel into popular culture.
They have an interest in church networks and church multiplication movements. Church multiplication movement leaders work under a more intense impulse than other church planters. While others are fulfilling God’s current agenda, these leaders seem to sense undercurrents of the next movement of God. We think that apostolic leadership does not have anything to do with a title (or liturgical attire in some cases) but rather God is raising up some who are anointed with a leadership gift, ability to teach and passion for multiplication.
