Light of the World, a City on A Hill

…thinking out loud about living missionally in the city of Sydney so that the city will come to know Jesus…

All Talk, No Action

March 27, 2008 at 12:10 pm · Filed under church planting, churches, missional

Stephen Murray laments the fact that there is a lot of talk about church planting in his home country of South Africa, but not much actual church planting.

We do some here, but not a great deal.

Is this an area where we are also all talk, no action?

Are there other areas?

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  Stephen wrote @ March 27, 2008 at 5:52 pm

I was under the impression the Sydney Anglicans have been quite busy in the area of church planting in the last decade or so?

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  Jeff A wrote @ March 28, 2008 at 12:25 pm

We have certainly done some. My home church is, in fact, a recent plant (18 months old now). Gordon Cheng’s home church has also been active with a number of plants in the past few years.

My question was, is it enough?

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  Matt Stone wrote @ March 30, 2008 at 6:04 pm

I wouldn’t say “no action” but I would say “not enough”. I have spoken to many people (leaders included) about church planting out our way, putting a team together, that sort of thing, but was invariably referred to people who referred me on or got the “that’s nice” treatment.

Never found enough people local enough to put a team together. Am wary of going solo given the burn outs Ive seen so that leaves me just trying to do what I can to help established churches become more missional and conscious of multiculturalism.

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