Having just expressed an innate desire to one day plant a church, there’s a very confronting post on Signposts about whether church planting is the way forward or perhaps churches should be looking at “re-invigorating” existing congregations. While the post is making the point in particular reference to “mega-churches” (a highly disparaging term in emerging church circles that no-one wants to be associated with), it forces me to consider why I believe that starting a new plant is a better model than going in and trying to rescue something else.

I think that the problem with trying to rekindle a dying church is that you bring into that move all of the baggage that has been lying around already. And there’s already enough politics in any church without the never-ending (never-spoken-about) fight over who’s really in control of a church. But hey, what would I know? Already interesting to see some of the comments on the post.