2019—NLCC will start over 10 churches

2018—NLCC started 11 churches

Since 1993, NLCC has started 268 churches

New Life CC starts churches through Passion for Planting & Exponential.com

Quiz:

How many churches close every year?

How many churches start?

  • 65% of Americans—No Significant connection to a church
  • If the unchurches in America were to form a country—8thmost populous country in the world!

Why Start New Churches?

  • Lost People Matter to God

2 Corinthians 5:11,14 CSB – Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people.…For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If one died for all, then all died.

Starting New Churches is God’s Strategy for Healthy Churches

Acts 1:8 CSB – you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

“The vigorous, continual planting of new congregations is the single most crucial strategy for (1) the numerical growth of the body of Christ in a city and (2) the continual corporate renewal and revival of the existing churches in a city. Nothing else — not crusades, outreach programs, parachurch ministries, growing megachurches, congregational consulting, nor church renewal processes — will have the consistent impact of dynamic, extensive church planting.” – Tim Keller, pastor, author.

3 Reasons Starting New Churches is God’s Strategy for Healthy Churches

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Church planting keeps us on the cutting edge.

Church planting forces us to be healthy as a church.

Matthew 28:19-20 CSB – Go, therefore, and make disciples ofall nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”