THE EFFECTS OF PLANTING NEW CHURCHES IN A COMPETITIVE SOCIETY

 

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1       Background to the study

This study deals with the Effects of Planting New Churches in a Competitive Society: A Case Study of Assemblies of God Church, Ora Section. The process of planting new churches involves missionary, evangelism, discipleship of new believers, the training of church leaders, and the establishing of new churches to accommodate them. The process also includes finding a location to meet or purchase a property and erecting a new building to accommodate the new convert into the faith. Planting new churches is one of the mandates (the great commission) given to believers by Christ to make disciples of all nations. In delivering this great mandate one have to apply good strategies through the leading and empowerment of the Holy Spirit and through his wisdom in order for one to actualize this purpose and arrive at a successful church planting...

 1.2      Statement of the Problem.

In today’s society, a lot of church planters are faced with competitions, which have resulted in nefarious activities that may bedevil and be detrimental to the society at large. Planting of new churches has become a do or die affair, thereby derailing from the original intent of church planting. This has resulted in raising pre-mature church planters that are in turn raising baby Christians. Most newly planted churches today have an unbelievably high failure rate, often do not survive the loss of the founder or those with the founding vision, and cost far more per member than established churches. Other challenges Church planters are faced with are lack of funds, inadequate biblical knowledge, the Holy Spirit backings, spiritual immaturity, lack of passion, tribal and ethnical discrimination, language barriers among others...

1.3       Purpose of the Study

This study examines the Effects of Planting New Churches in a Competitive Society: A Case Study of Assemblies of God Church, Ora Section. Specifically, the study seeks to ascertain the concept of planting new churches, the purpose of planting new churches, the effects of planting new churches in a competitive society, the problems associated with planting new churches in a competitive society and  the measures to overcome these problems.

1.4       Research Question.

1.         What is planting new churches?

2.         What are the purpose of planting new churches?

3.         What are the effects of planting new churches in a competitive society?

4.         What are the problems associated with planting new churches in a competitive society?

5.         What are the measures to overcome these problems?

1.5       Significance of the Study.

          This study on the effects of planting new churches would be of immense benefit to church leaders and planters, ministries, theologians and missionaries and researchers.  It will be beneficial to the local church leaders in helping to know the best strategies to employ in growing their churches. It will make church planters to understand the strategies involved in the process of planting new churches and to avoid wasteful expenses in planting new churches. Ministries will draw from this research, ways to organise, manage, strategize their church planting process. Theologians will have a working knowledge of how to plant new churches. To the missionaries, it will help them to know the best church planting strategy for planting and establishing new churches. It will be a resource material to researchers in developing further studies.

1.6       Research Procedure

The researcher employed library and field investigations.  Data was collected through questionnaire and oral interviews was distributed to respondents in Assemblies of God Church Ora Section for the purpose of gathering information through prepared questions and examined for true representation. The research study was predominantly library, internet and field investigations. This research was conducted to achieve the goals and objective of this research study.

1.7       Delimitation of the Study

The focus of this study is on the Effects of Planting New Churches in a Competitive Society: A Case Study of Assemblies of God Church, Ora Section. This study will cover six (6) Assemblies of God churches in Ora-Section with a population of approximately 600 members. All in Owan West local government area of Edo State. 

1.8       Definition of Terms.

Effects: A change which is as a result or consequence of an action or other cause.

Planting: It is to sow, establish, create, found, set up, start up, or build something.

New Churches: New churches is a newly establish or organized body of believers in a new location for the purpose of establishing a church for the worship of God.

Planting New Church: Is the act of establishing new churches to accommodate new converts and worshippers of God.

Competitive: Is used to describe situations or activities in which people or firms compete with each other. It is also seen as when someone or something is better than others of a comparable nature.

Society: The aggregate of people living together in a community.

CHAPTER  TWO

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter review literature that are related to the research study...........

CHAPTER THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter captures the methodology and procedure applied to gather relevant information for this research study. It comprises of research design, population and sampling, research instrument, validity of the Instrument, administration of instrument and method of data collection and analysis......

 

CHAPTER FOUR

 

PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS

The focus of this chapter is to present the findings obtained from the data collected and to discuss the analysis made out of the research questions.......

 

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES

This chapter consists of summary, conclusion, recommendations and suggestions for further studies which is as follows:.…...

 

 

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