M » “Stop Funding Church Plants…” discusses David Fitch’s article, “stop funding church plants and start funding missionaries.” The thrust of it: don’t fund a church. Instead, send teams of young couples into an unreached area with enough funding to cover their housing and health for a decade. If you “put three or more quality leaders together in one place for ten years, you will have a new expression of the Gospel.” I love the passion of this. I see some basic challenges that would need to be addressed. First, getting from zero to one–e.g. from no church plant to a church [...]