Why the Church Needs Revitalization AND Planting in This Next Season | Paul Huyghebaert

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/the-church-needs-revitalization-and-planting/  This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ For the past several decades, church planting has arguably been one of the great success stories of the North American church. Entire networks have been built, leaders trained, funding pipelines established, and faithful mission fueled through the planting of new congregations. We should thank God for that. Many of us have a place we call our home congregation today because someone had the courage to plant a church where there wasn’t one before. And yet, as grateful as I am for the planting movement, I’m increasingly convinced that the next season of faithfulness for the Church will require a renewed imagination for revitalization alongside planting—not in competition with it, and not as a replacement for it, but as a complementary expression of the same gospel mission. This conviction hasn’t come to me primarily through research or theory, but through lived experience. Listen for more... Join RENEW.org's Newsletter: https://renew.org/resources/newsletter-sign-up/ Join RENEW.org at one of our upcoming events: https://renew.org/resources/events/ Get the RENEW.org App -- https://renew-app-page.bolt.host/  Be sure to like, subscribe and follow on social media!  You can find us on: Instagram: @the.renew.network  Facebook: Renew.org  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RENEWnetwork Twitter: @therenewnetwork TikTok: the.renew.network  Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/RENEW