tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20132153.post115678962354832198..comments2024-01-28T03:39:57.181-06:00Comments on Sean Michael Lucas: Presbyterian Church in "America" (or at least east of the Mississippi)Sean Michael Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06911661966197928859noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20132153.post-1157550367481996542006-09-06T08:46:00.000-05:002006-09-06T08:46:00.000-05:00Sean,Thanks for bringing this to our attention.One...Sean,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for bringing this to our attention.<BR/><BR/>One item worth noting is that planting churches is very different from opening hardware stores. It is easier to open a hardware store where there are almost none - in fact, this almost guarantees that you will have a lot of customers. On the other hand, from a human standpoint, it is much more difficult to plant churches where we don't already have Reformed congregations. There are at least two reasons for this:<BR/><BR/>1. Often new churches begin when 4 or 5 families who have been driving a long way to attend a larger church decide that they would like to have a church closer to home. Obviously, this only happens when there is already a "larger" church.<BR/><BR/>2. Money. In parts of the country where there are many PCA congregations the Presbyteries have money to fund church planting. In New Hampshire, where I live, if money is needed for Church planting it largely has to be raised in other parts of the country.<BR/><BR/>If we want to plant PCA churches in those parts of the country where the blue pins are sparse, this will likely occur only through a deliberate missionary enterprise over an extended period of time.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes,<BR/><BR/>DavidDavid A Boothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08718043590946290563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20132153.post-1156957504829485252006-08-30T12:05:00.000-05:002006-08-30T12:05:00.000-05:00Maps of the Southern Baptist Convention look eeril...Maps of the Southern Baptist Convention look eerily similiar. We have many churches in every part of the country, but if the world was flat, then the states that comprised the old Confederacy would be under water, buried under the weight of Southern Baptist churches.Nathan Finnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13870108451191610134noreply@blogger.com