An examination of the modern church planting and missional movements and their tendency to de-emphasize the critical sanctification process of a believer under the banner of ‘Evangelism.’

I heard a pastor say recently: “If you know Jesus, I am sorry to break it to you: this church is not for you.” He continued by addressing those who came to know Jesus the previous week at the church: “Last week was the last week that [this church] existed for you.” Though maybe not to this degree, I think many of us fledgling-planters have erred on the side of an “its-all-about-mission” philosophy of ministry.

…The error is that sanctification gets sacrificed on the altar of mission. It is an error I have made in my ministry, being so fixated on getting people in, I have neglected those who are already there.\

(Read more here: http://thecripplegate.com/church-planters-and-missionalotry/)