In the Coracle

Missional orders as ways to start new churches

January 21, 2008

Tags: Church Planting, Incarnational/Missional, monastic
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Here’s a very, very interesting video of a talk by David Fitch about using missional orders as a church planting strategy.

“The way we used to plant churches (in the Christendom era) was as organization. An established church structure … paid somebody… with the distinctives of the denomination, the tags, the franchise…”. But that doesn’t work anymore. “I do not believe you can plant a church in less than three years in post-Christendom.”
I’m filing this under “if/when I plant another church”…

I really gotta read me some Fitch. I’ve got a couple of his books, and I’ve heard that _The Great Giveaway_ is fantastic.

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