The Deep End

Planting a Church?

Question: To what does “planting a church” refer? Is it like an industrial plant?

Answer: “A church plant” is more of an agricultural, than an industrial, metaphor. See I Corinthians 3:6-9. A minister, or an existing church, may help to found a new church in a different location, and the hope is that it will put down roots of Biblical truth in Christ Jesus, and that it will grow and bring forth spiritual fruit (new believers, disciples, growing and maturing Christians, etc.) to the glory of God.