Today’s Church Planting Challenges

1. Overchurched people - they’ve been there, done that, are spiritual and want nothing with the church.

2. Changing demographic landscape - new frontiers of unreached peoples are in segment niches and in later gen population segments. WASP churches have reached most of the people like themselves there is to reach.

3. Unrealistic expectations - So you want full funding and great facilities? Nice dream. Get lots of partners.

4. Marketing fads - this can’t take the place of doing the work of an evangelist. What will you do to make your bit of spam unique.

5. Biblical membership - commitment, what’s that? Accountability? Uh-huh.

6. Biblical leadership - elders and deacons meeting biblical standards. Differentiating between cultural norms and God’s standards.

7. Missional church - whatever today’s definition of missional is. . . Can we truly live sent amidst the American dream?

8. Challenge of ecclesiology - so what does the church look like for my community right now?

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