Paul's entire life was dedicated to apostolic ministry. At least two factors hinder apostolic ministry. First and foremost, innate ethnocentrism leads some missionaries to perceive that national leaders are too immature to lead the local church established by the missionary. Second, national leaders are frequently intimidated, even unconsciously smothered, by the presence of trained missionaries. If we are to establish what Erich Bridges calls church-planting movements, missionaries must spread their influence and allow national leadership to quickly rise.
Limited vision leads to limited results.
Thus while one missionary team plants a single church in a city or ethnic unit, another employs a multi-church orientation to plant numerous viable churches within the same culture. The difference between these missionaries is the working models or paradigms they use in church planting and development. Sources Cited Bridges, Erich. 1999. Whatever it takes. The next task should be for the missionary to train national church planters to do the apostolic task that he is now doing.