Director of MTS (Ministry Training Strategy) Ben Pfahlert shares research that points to how God is using new churches to call new believers into the Kingdom.
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I reckon we need Church plants because from the stats that I've been looking at from olive tree media which was they commissioned a report that the krinkle produced the Australian communities report when you look at that you realize approximately one in five people in Australia Protestant evangelical one in five of them so that's one in twenty five worship very regularly and when you ask people all are in churches what percentage of
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people who worship very regularly do you think committed to being Great Commission areas and committed to outreach sharing Christ with others the result you get it is about one in ten of those who very regularly attended church so the net result of that is that there's probably one outreach focused Christian in Australia for every 250 Aussies and when you think about how much works required to get an Aussie to
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go from not being a follower of Christ to being committed to it I mean the analogy I love is that's like getting someone to be a card-carrying Rugby League devotee to becoming a card-carrying AFL supporter well there's a massive amount of work so we need just more people on deck and I reckon the reason we need more churches planted is because it's easier to give birth and raise the dead it is so hard to change the culture of existing churches and if the culture of an existing church is
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that at best one in ten our outreach focus then just takes too much work to change that we need to plant churches with the D&I right from day one so that's why I reckon we need hundreds of church plants to happen and be they've got to be set up with the DNA so that people are on the roids they're really a rock the goal is not to be a church member the goal is to be in an evangelistic platoon which is
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