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# Plant or transition?
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200835plant-or-transition-html/
- Published: 2008-03-05T18:07:48.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:00.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Church, pastoring, #DashHouseCom, #wp

From Gordon MacDonald’s book [*Who Stole My Church?*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078522601X/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com):

> Our experience leads me to say that if you want to be part of a church that is radically different than anything you’ve ever known, then plant one – start one. You can create new programs, new rules, and new structures. And you’ll have about a one-in-five chance that it will survive. And if that’s your call, go for it. There’s a lot of nobility in planting churches. It’s happening all over the countryside.

> But if you are willing to be patient in one of those old churches (like ours) that is pretty high up the S-curve, then put your head down and go to work. Be patient, be prayerful, seek allies, build alliances with other generations. You’ll probably have to convince a lot of people, and they’ll come dragging their feet…But as time passes, somehow the Spirit of God will grab at hearts, and you just may see a miracle – a hundred year-old church that acts with the spirit of an enthusiastic teenager.