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The challenge of church planting
Phillip Jensen / Briefing #201 / May 1997
Perhaps it is because whenever we read the verse, we think of claims to papal power and the need to prove that Peter was not the first pope. Whatever the reason, we often forget the other more positive side of Matthew 16:18: “I will build my church.”
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I will build my church:
Through evangelism and church planting
Rev. Peter J. Kemeny / ARP 01 2007 Pg 4-5
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:18-20).
The greatest evangelism tool ever invented is not the Four Spiritual Laws tract, the Billy Graham crusade, or the Evangelism Explosion training program for lay witness. The greatest evangelism tool ever devised is the planting of new churches.