New Churches and Existing Churches

The CCCC commitment to church redevelopment grew out of our commitment to plant new churches.  The Church Multiplication Committee said that it wanted to “start a church multiplication movement supported by healthy churches and healthy pastors.”  The leaders knew that it was just as important to build healthy churches as it was to start new churches.  It is “both/and” rather than “either/or”.

After Peter publicly acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God, Jesus responded, “upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of Hades will not overcome it (Matthew 16:18).”  Jesus loves the church because it is God’s tool to reach a broken world.  We do not set up the development of new churches against the established church and fully support the CCCC efforts toward church redevelopment. (Find out about Church Redevelopment here!)

God desperately needs healthy established churches to build up strong believers to reach a world that continues to wander from the truth.  We strongly support the efforts of the CCCC to help our churches rediscover their God-given purpose and mission.  However, it is important for everyone to understand that we need over 3,000 new churches in America per year to keep up with the population change and growth.  Unhealthy churches are dying and closing.  Demographic population shifts have people moving to places where there is no church to minister to them.