The Scriptures give clear and consistent witness of God calling and sending people to display and declare His glory as a means of making disciples. Throughout the New Testament God’s people, the church, committed to extending God’s kingdom and glory through planting churches. Church planting continues to be one of the most effective means of evangelism. If we are going to make and multiply disciples of Jesus Christ, it will happen as both believers and churches reproduce themselves. This becomes all the more important as 3,500 churches across the U.S. close their doors every year. We must be committed to joining God’s great work of making disciples among all peoples through sending and supporting laborers in the harvest.
“This much is clear--the cities are where the people are. In the course of less than 300 years, our world will have shifted from one in which only 3 percent of people live in cities, to one in which 80 percent are resident in urban areas. If the Christian church does not learn new modes of urban ministry, we will find ourselves on the outside looking in. The Gospel of Jesus Christ must call a new generation of committed Christians into these teeming cities.”
-Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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