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Post-Christian America & the Urgency of Church Planting
Author: D. Goodmanson4 Jul
A while back I recall seeing the Did You Know? Shift Happens video and wanted to create one for church planting and the state of the church in America. So here it is, just in time for us to celebrate July 4th Americans! (I've compiled statistics from a variety of sources such as Planting Missional Churches, Christianity Today, Barna, stuff from Tim Keller and other books. All-in-all I hope it is a powerful call to the church to support church planting. If you are interested in the statistics, they are all located at Church Planting Resources: The State of the Church in the U.S.) Enjoy. Watch Church Planting in a Post-Christian U.S. >
UPDATE: I've had several requests, so a Quicktime file is available for download at Church Planting Resources .
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Drew is an elder/pastor at Kaleo Church and CEO of Monk Development. Kaleo is a church planting movement in San Diego. Drew spends much of his time thinking about church planting strategy, web missiology and being a husband and father of two (Gideon & Roman). More about Drew Goodmanson.
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10 Responses for "Post-Christian America & the Urgency of Church Planting"
Great vid! Thanks for putting that together, it was a good way to start my day. It is sobering to see those stats.
Thats a really great post, the info is so good, especially for guys who are struggling to convince people of the necessity of church planting.
Drew-
Excellent video.
It is very sobering to hear that each year over half of all churches do not add one new member through conversion.
Great post, good work on production, powerful stuff.
Will link and use
Rob in Memphis
Is the sound track David Newman from a film of 2006 perhaps?
Where is the Braveheart face paint? I want to put some on and run towards the unchurched masses heralding “gospel FREEEEDDOOOMMM!” Inspiring call to war! Let’s get it on!
This stuff woke me up a couple years ago, the numbers certainly match what I’ve seen in all my previous denominations.
No seriously, can we find a missional excuse to wear blue face paint? SD Chargers game maybe?
can i get that video in quicktime or something to show to some of our people? I would love to use it in some of our presentations.
Good stuff. At the end it says that all these stats are available on the Church Planting Resources site but I couldn’t find them… can you send me a link to where they are on the site?
[...] Drew Goodmanson posted a video that compiled some of the common stats used in the discussion on the need to plant churches. Since I most of you won’t go to his site and sit through the whole thing, here are some of the highlights: [...]
Is anyone else having trouble with the quicktime video. It will not play on my computer as well as some others in our church, but it will play on others. I have the latest version of quicktime and itunes and neither will play the video properly.
Any suggestions
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