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I recently sent out my my newsletter summarizing one of my many trips overseas to mentor/coach a house church planting movement in Asia.

Here is the paragraph that seems to have sparked much interest.

“House church planting has become (perhaps already has been for awhile) the new way to make money in Asia (country changed).  Proclaim you have many house churches and there will be someone most willing to throw money at you (in US dollars none the less).  This drives me insane on several levels. First, many of the claims are false – double-triple counting people, claiming those that are not theirs, etc.  Second, just gathering some believers in a house does not make a house church. Even worse, leaving them with no nurturing – just as bad as leaving a child – it’s called abuse. There will be a terrible day of accounting for these supposed ‘leaders’.”

Copyright © 2009 by Galen Currah, George Patterson and Edward Aw
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Christian researchers have concluded, after watching North American trends for three decades, that the evangelical movement has stagnated. (Evangelicals are those who have strong beliefs about the sole authority of the Bible, the Lordship of Jesus, his atonement at the Cross, and personal faith for salvation.) Since those conclusions derive from statistics, that is, from percentages of populations, they tend to be weak in explaining the causes of stagnation, or the lack of causes that should have led to more growth. Fortunately, many church planting movements in other parts of the world have more than offset the decline in North America.