Kingdom & Church Planting
When Jesus was raised from the dead, he established the church. The local church has been the locus of God’s kingdom expansion throughout history. Wherever Paul went, he established churches. Parachurch ministries are great. We are grateful for those who lead and serve there. But the focus of our Kingdom-expansion efforts will be to follow the pattern of the book of Acts: to plant churches. We seek this in three ways:
1) Planting churches out of CtK. Yes, we hope this will happen.
2) Partnering to plant churches in Raleigh and beyond. No matter how many church buildings you see, there are so many people in our city who are unchurched. We are far from “saturation church planting.” We partner with Acts 29 to plant churches in the United States.
3) Partnering to plant churches overseas. Our International Missions vision is to partner to plant churches in countries in which the church has no significant foothold. We long to fulfill the vision of Revelation 5, to see people from every tribe and tongue and people group and nation around the throne of God, celebrating and worshipping him.
