Last week, there was a conference in Austin called Verge that centered on organic church life in North America. Speakers included the regulars – Hirsch and Cole, but something interesting came from that conference. The possible idea sharing/merging of the Exponential Church Planting Conference that takes place every April in Orlando with the purely organic Verge.  Having been to two of the Exponential Conferences, it is full of church planters wanting to launch large and create the next phenomenal attractional church.

Does this mean that church leaders who pastor mega-churches are finally starting to see the need and validity of organic church planting movements? Hopefully, they days of looking  at such movements as a fringe group wthat has to be tolerated  in the church planting scene are coming to a close. The most effective church planting movements are not taking place in the United States and they are being done through organinc church planting. Church and denominational leaders would be smart to follow the lead of our brothers across the seas when it comes to spreading the gosple through church planting.