Test your knowledge and rate yourself accordingly:

7 or more correctif you arent planting a church right now, whats stopping you?

4 - 6 correctread the cover section carefully and retake the test.

3 or lesstake your pulse, you may be dead.

(HINT: although many answers are acceptable, one is best ... answers at bottom.)

1. One of Southern Baptists most successful evangelism strategies is:

a) telemarketing at dinnertime

b) taking advantage of the captive audience in a stalled elevator

c) annual revivals with a "turn or burn" theme

d) planting new churches

2. A church:

a) is a brick building with a steeple, a cross and a name (bell optional)

b) is a congregation led by a licensed, ordained, educated clergyman who practices the ordinances of baptism and the Lords Supper

c) has a full program of Sunday school and multi-age ministries

d) is a local body of Christians who worship and fellowship together as they participate in discipleship, missions, ministry and evangelism

3. A church planter must be:

a) seminary trained

b) salaried

c) licensed and ordained

d) called by God

4. A leader is:

a) a trained public speaker

b) in management in his or her workplace

c) accredited by a university and seminary

d) able to influence people

5. A church needs:

a) a building

b) a piano

c) a computer

d) people

6. A layperson is:

a) someone who works hard all week and lounges around on the weekend

b) paid to do non-religious work

c) called by God to a vocation outside the church

d) someone who considers all work to be ministry

7. A lay church planter is:

a) funded by the Nehemiah Project

b) funded by the Jeremiah Project (just kidding)

c) a bi-vocational pastor

d) an on mission Christian

8. A lay church planter:

a) plants seeds hoping to see a church grow

b) really wants to be a pastor but doesnt want to go to seminary

c) is a farmer who turns to church planting in a drought so he can watch something grow

d) gathers a group together for worship, fellowship, Bible study and evangelism

9. Worship requires:

a) a piano and hymn books

b) a worship team, sound system, overhead projector and PowerPoint

c) a leader who can clap without breaking rhythm (guitar optional)

d) people with a desire for it

10. Churches are planted because:

a) a street corner was found without a Baptist church on it

b) the closest church is too far away to make it home in time for the televised football game

c) a church split

d) Christians take the Great Commission seriously

(the correct answers are all "d")