Why Care About Church Planting?

From an interview with Darrin Patrick:

What would you say to a comfortable evangelical church who has no vision for planting new churches? Why should they care?

They should re-read the book of Acts, because it is very clear that church planting is normative in the early church and is a necessary factor in revival.

Further, they need to consider the raw statistics that our country is becoming less and less Christian despite more and more mega-churches. There are more and more giant church buildings everywhere but more and more people who are not claiming any religious affiliation.

So they should go back to the Bible, to church history, and then look at the current reality. To the degree that we are able to plan gospel-centered, missional churches, to that degree will we see spiritual renewal and hopefully revival in our lifetime.