The reason I say this is that many churches have messed up the priorities of the Kingdom. Which means they don’t understand the order in which things are important. The gospel’s priority has always been lost people and then discipleship. But many churches have reversed the order and made discipleship(small groups, intercession,gifts of the Spirit, Bible study etc…) the first thing so their resources are towards that goal. That is why their most hungry resource day – Sunday is devoted to discipleship. Unfortunately, by the time that they get to their second priority there is no resources available for lost people. So that means no new people in the church which results in discipleship of the same people over and over again – over discipled and over processed Christians. But to keep the same people being interested in being discipled requires for you to find new trends and methods. So now you have a mixture of trends picked from a couple of conferences you attended, a magazine article, a book, a discipleship consultant, to a methodology being used in a third world nation. Throw it all together and process it all together and you get SPAM.

Thank you for your post and your church planting movement to see churches be planted and grow.