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单词 church planting
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church planting
church planting n. originally U.S. the founding of a church, spec. the practice of sending trained people, sometimes members of a thriving congregation, to establish a new church; (now also frequently among evangelicals) to send members of a thriving congregation to worship in a church with an otherwise dwindling attendance.
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1644 J. Etherington (title) The Anabaptists Ground-Work for Reformation or New Planting of Churches.]
1830 ‘Common Sense’ Affairs of Nation v. 175 Their [sc. the dissenters'] church-planting has been left to themselves.
1871 D. P. Kidder Christian Pastorate xix. 509 Sometimes church planting is accomplished by detaching a small number of Church members to serve as the nucleus of a new organization.
1932 W. E. Hocking Re-thinking Missions i. 26 In the era of church-planting, it was natural that many persons of various degrees of equipment should be sent from abroad, aggressively promoting the local church.
1994 Sunday Tel. 19 June 5Church planting’..whereby members of the congregation colonise other run-down churches to give them a new lease of life.
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