Which description best characterizes a church planting movement?

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Which description best characterizes a church planting movement?

A church planting movement is defined by rapid multiplanting of churches through healthy churches reproducing leaders, catalyzed by training, simple church forms, and strong local leadership. This approach focuses on saturation through local, indigenous leadership who can train others, start new congregations using straightforward, easy-to-reproduce structures (often small or house churches), and sustain the pattern of multiplication. The other descriptions don’t fit because they describe slow or fragmented growth, dependence on megachurch models funded from abroad, or religious expansion driven only by foreign missionary teams, all of which miss the core emphasis on quick, locally led reproduction.

A church planting movement is defined by rapid multiplanting of churches through healthy churches reproducing leaders, catalyzed by training, simple church forms, and strong local leadership. This approach focuses on saturation through local, indigenous leadership who can train others, start new congregations using straightforward, easy-to-reproduce structures (often small or house churches), and sustain the pattern of multiplication. The other descriptions don’t fit because they describe slow or fragmented growth, dependence on megachurch models funded from abroad, or religious expansion driven only by foreign missionary teams, all of which miss the core emphasis on quick, locally led reproduction.

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