4000 New Churches Planted Annually

Church Planters Keeping U.S. Christianity Alive | Christianpost.com Rick Warren spoke at the Exponential Conference, a massive church planting event and basically said that all of the growth of the US Christianity is coming from church plants -- 4000 annually -- and megachurches. Interesting quote from Alan Hirsch: "I think here in America, I think church planting is still very bonded to church growth methodology and ideas," Australian-born Hirsch said in an interview featured on MondayMorningInsight, a Web site for pastors and church leaders. "It (America) hasn't really thought through ... the nature of the church as a mission agency. We simply have to adopt a missionary stance in relationship to our culture," he continued. "We've got to break the monopoly that church growth thinking has over our mindset. Because unless we do that we'll never become a truly missionary agency."