Following the example of Scriptures, leadership training was one of the first teaching areas implemented in this new church. Personal discipleship programs were started. From these intensive-training Bible study programs, elders and deacons will eventually emerge to lead the church into its next levels of growth and service. While focusing on reaching lost people, new churches, by design, will reach, teach, train, and raise up new leaders to lead new churches. New churches, like mature churches, need to have competent leadership so that the people can be won to Christ, cared for, taught, encouraged, and led to growth.
New churches are great places for people to emerge and become leaders for the church.
Effective Evangelism New churches are effective ways to win massive amounts of people to Christ. The Northpoint Community Christian Church in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, is a congregation that continues to have a significant evangelistic outreach. Like all new churches, evangelism takes a high priority. The Northpoint congregation was started by the CDEA in 1990 and at the end of five years had baptized 242 people, with a total church membership of 264. New churches are places of energy and excitement.