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New Churches Needed

New Churches Needed. Why?. 85% of all churches in America are either plateaued or declining. Aubrey Malphurs, Planting Growing Churches. Page 13. Of the 15% that are growing, 14% are doing so by transfer from other churches. Aubrey Malphurs, Planting Growing Churches. Page 32.

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New Churches Needed

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  1. New Churches Needed Why?

  2. 85% of all churches in America are either plateaued or declining Aubrey Malphurs, Planting Growing Churches. Page 13

  3. Of the 15% that are growing, 14% are doing so by transfer from other churches. Aubrey Malphurs, Planting Growing Churches. Page 32

  4. ¾ of all church goers are not Christians Billy Graham

  5. “Back door” losses in SBC churches have increased from 28% in 1950 to 79% in 2000 Study done by Dr. Jim Slack, IMB

  6. Why Start New Churches? In the last 10 years Protestant denomination membership has declined by 9.5% (4,498,242) while the national population has increasedby 11.4% (24,153,000). Arn, Charles. ASCG Journal of Church Growth. Autumn ‘96

  7. Why Start New Churches? Evangelical churches have failed to gain an additional two percent of the American population in the past fifty years. In other words, we are not even reaching our own children!!! Barna, George. American Profile.

  8. Only half of the country’s Protestant pastors have a Biblical worldview Only 71% of SBC pastors have a Biblical worldview www.barna.org

  9. Why Start New Churches? There is a net loss of 48 churches per week, or nearly 7 churches per day NAMB

  10. Why Start New Churches? North America is the only continent where Christianityis NOT growing. Gallup, George. Church World Today.

  11. Why Start New Churches? The United States of America is the third largest unchurched nation. Clegg, Thomas. “The Need for Church Planting in America”. 1996.

  12. 200 million North Americans have no church affiliation

  13. If we were to start new churches of 1000 people each,we would still need 200,000new churchesto reach all these people.

  14. 57% of Mississippi Baptist Associations report no need for new churches in our state Is there really not a need for a church planting movement in Mississippi?

  15. Mississippi • Population– 2,850,000 • 1,348,107 – on the membership role of an evangelical church 53.7% confirmedun-churched Glenmary Research Center

  16. Mississippi in 2003 1,200,000 people 2,000,000 people Claim not to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ Are not attending church anywhere Glenmary Research Center, Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States, 2000.

  17. Mississippi in 2003 1900 MS population = 1,551,2701562 churches1 church for every 993 persons 2002 MS population = 2,858,0292,065 SBC churches1 church for every 1,378 persons

  18. Mississippi Baptists’ membership has declined by 1.40%since 2000

  19. 5 Strategic Areas • Northwest MS • pop – 176,789 • 76,041 churched • 57% unchurched!

  20. 5 Strategic Areas • Furniture Hub • pop – 127,843 • 72,933 churched • 43% unchurched!

  21. 5 Strategic Areas • Metro • pop – 440,801 • 196,142 churched • 56% unchurched!

  22. 5 Strategic Areas • Hattiesburg Area • pop – 111,674 • 55,537 churched • 50% unchurched!

  23. 5 Strategic Areas • Gulf Coast • pop – 363,988 • 112,572 churched • 69% unchurched!

  24. The UndiscoveredCountry Multihousing Communities • 252,750 Apt residents • 19,990 Condo residents • 189,886 Manufactured Housing Residents in communities • 41,000 Public Housing residents • 16,127 Nursing home residents 519,753+ Total Multi-housing Residents 19% Of Total MS Population

  25. The UndiscoveredCountry Multihousing Communities about 90%are unchurched Approximately 487,350 people in MS

  26. Rick Warren says... “ The planting of new churches is the single most effective way to fulfill the Great Commission. It takes all kinds of churches to reach all kinds of people, so thousands of new churches must be started in the days ahead. . .

  27. New churches are essential to reaching every new generation.

  28. “The single most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven is planting new churches” C. Peter Wagner

  29. Lost in America How You and Your Church Impact the World Next Door Tom Clegg and Warren Bird

  30. People today are growing up without being influenced by Christianity in any way. Lost in America, Page 11

  31. Churches are going out of business because they refuse to change. Any church that doesn’t shift from ‘ministry as status quo’ to ‘ministry as missions outpost’ will die or become hopelessly irrelevant. Lost in America, Page 14

  32. Lost in America, Page 23, 25 “The Western World is the only major segment of the world’s population in which Christianity is not growing” “In many parts of America, we have become the kind of place to which civilized countries used to send missionaries.”

  33. Islam, sometimes called the ‘most serious threat to the church in America’, is growing so fast in the United States that it has either superseded Judaism as the second-largest religious group, or it’s clearly in the passing lane.” Lost in America, Page 31

  34. The decline of Christianity has been going on for nearly fifty years With more than 2.4 million adherentsin North America, Buddhism is growing three times as fast as Christianity Lost in America, Page 31, 33

  35. Atheists are less likely to become divorced than Christians Lost in America, Page 35

  36. Christians must reproduce Christians, and churches must reproduce churches Lost in America, Page 37

  37. Life’s struggles provide golden opportunities for the church, Today’s world has shifted Christianity and churches from the mainstream to the margins of society but people are looking for eternal solutions elsewhere. Lost in America, Page 43

  38. North America has such a large, unchurched population because of the huge gap between what we say and what they need Lost in America, Page 73

  39. The day of the church ‘member’ is over. The day of the church ‘minister’ has come Lost in America, Page 84

  40. Faithful, reproducing local churches have the capacity to bring closure to the Great Commission in just one generation

  41. Start new churches that will love the unlovable, bring justice to unjust situations, and carry the good news of Jesus Christ to the poor. According to the book of Acts, that’s what the first church did… Lost in America, Page 141

  42. Here are two lost people… Why might one church not reach both?

  43. Would all of these people come to your church?

  44. Reaching the lost is best accomplished by planting multiple, indigenous, new churches who will go on to plant other new churches Study done by Dr. Jim Slack, IMB

  45. 2003 Church Planting Stats 434 Professions of Faith $54,287.05 cooperative program giving 25 new churches 159 Baptisms $4,720.24 raised for state missions offering $14,248.93 in gifts to Associations

  46. Develop Church Planting Department Discover Partnering With You to . . . Advance the Kingdom of God Deploy

  47. Church Planting Department (601) 292-3361 Director Dr. Ed Deuschle www.mbcb.org churchplanting@mbcb.org

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