Why Every Church Needs to Get Pregnant ... and Multiply

However, as a church gets bigger, it is easy to go into institutional mode.

“Church planting reminds us to come back to the movement and not stick with the institution,” he says. “Church planting is ... like blood to the body. It’s the moving dynamic action of the body. If you kill church planting, you kill the movement.”

For that reason, he believes every church should get “pregnant.”

“If there is a church that hasn’t planted for 40 years, they need to get pregnant and plant,” he admonishes. “Life will come into that church that is not expected.”

If church members haven’t planted in a while, it can take approximately two years to get to the point where they are ready to plant, he predicts.

“We need to get on our knees and pray for God to interrupt the church,” he adds. “Something has to happen within the church that stirs up the passion again. That can only happen through the Holy Spirit.”