Churches Planting Churches

[Trey Finley]

A friend in ministry, Dan Bouchelle, has just announced that he is leaving his pulpit to head up Missions Resource Network, a church-planting entity that sponsors churches and church-planters world-wide.

He is writing on his blog about his "why" and I resonate with much that he is saying. Here's an excerpt:

"What we really need in North America and throughout the West is new expressions of Christian community that were not designed in the
Christendom model. We need to rethink how Christian community takes form
and functions in a post-modern post-Christian world. This will probably
mean the church of the future will look more like the church of the
first three centuries than the established church of the West after
Constantine. One way of putting this is to say, we need to help churches
plant churches that don't look like their parents. "

Follow Dan's journey here.

[James Nored]

We are making the transition into a more missional church--that is, an outward focused church that takes up the mission of Jesus and sees itself as fundamentally being on mission. We have had a number of evangelistic successes and have become a real light to the community, helping with many areas of brokenness. But the transition from being a vendor of spiritual goods and services to a missional community is a challenge.

[James Nored]

Hi Trey. Sorry I missed this initially. I did not know that you knew Dan Bouchelle. I know of him from Oklahoma days, but I do not believe that we have actually met.