| 单词 | church planting |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschurch 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. ΚΠ 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 5 ‘Church planting’..whereby members of the congregation colonise other run-down churches to give them a new lease of life. < as lemmas |
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