The future church in America will look significantly different from today’s church because a new generation of pastors is adopting a different understanding of “success” and “location,” a new survey reveals.
According to a report released by the Dallas-based Leadership Network titled “How a New Generation of Pastors Is Shifting to Strategies That Reproduce and Multiply,” the vast majority of pastors younger than 40 (83 percent) value not just reproduction, defined as “starting a new church or campus,” but multiplication, or “starting new churches or campuses with the vision that they, too, will start new churches or campuses — who also do likewise.”
The study, which involved more than 1,500 participants, found that the younger the church and/or pastor, the more likely to be multisite and the more drawn toward the idea of multiplication.
When responding to this statement, “We have a future vision to plant/launch,” church planters and campus pastors in their first five years at a church said “yes” compared to just 17 percent of leaders who had been at their churches or campuses more than 10 years.
Warren Bird, director of…
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