having children is good

Steve Addision reports on recent Natural Church Development (NCD) findings on the impact of church planting on church growth. Bottom line, church planting is good. As Addison summarizes;

Church multiplication is, by and large, a win-win-win proposition. The mother church wins. The daughter church wins. The gospel-needy world wins.

NCD is known for defining 8 characteristics of a healthy church. This is excellent stuff and worth taking the time to investigate.

My only add is that this principle of multiplication is applicable to more than the church. The same holds true for small groups and for individual believers.

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