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“What Could Be Wrong with ‘Church Planting’?” by Mack Stiles

Mack Stiles is the pastor of a church in Iraq. In this short article on the Desiring God site, Stiles begins with the positives about CPM and then mentions six weaknesses. They include:

  1. sloppy definitions of church
  2. vulnerability to error and heresy
  3. temptations to pragmatism
  4. lack of clarity (on definitions of church and conversion)
  5. ethnically homogeneous congregations
  6. over-contextualization

Read it here.

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