Here are practical steps on how start a Church:
# Count the cost.
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it ?
(Luke 14:28)
# Do not become desperate.
# Two or three is enough.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
(Matthew 18:20)
# Don't be in a hurry.
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
(Proverbs 28:22)
# Pray for and recruit pillars.
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
(Matthew 9:38)
# Lay a foundation of prayer.
...as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
(Isaiah 66:8)
# Be a motivational leader.
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
(Job 8:7)
# Predominantly engage in witnessing and follow-up.
...whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
(Galatians 6:7)
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Culled from Chapter 20 of Church Planting by Bishop Dag Heward-Mills.
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