Tim Chester wrote a post called Planting Biblically-Rooted Churches. I recommend the whole post but I found his description of the dangers of church planting very helpful
Here are some dangers when planting a church:
- to replicate your sending church or your past experience of church (a replica church)
- to plant a church defined by what it is not (a reactionary church)
- to plant the church you and friends always wanted to be part of (ideally suited to Christians, but not missional)
- to attempt to reproduce exactly what went on in the first century apostolic churches (restorationist church which tend to be inward-looking)
- to plant a church which is so ‘incarnational’ or ‘missional’ or ‘contextualized’ that it assimilates to the wider culture (and so in the end has nothing to offer)
