
(CP) When it comes to church planting in the post-Covid era, having a vision of exponential growth could be a significant factor, according to a new survey.
In what it says is the largest-ever of its kind in North America, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) launched “The New Faces of Church Planting and Multisiting” survey to examine various strategies for church planting, also known as multiplying.
In one part of the survey, the researchers looked at respondents who said their church would not multiply within the next five years versus those who said their church would multiply “10 or MORE times” within the next five years.
The survey found that churches that expect to multiply at least 10 times are growing nearly 10 times as fast as those that don’t expect to multiply at all.
Those who…