In church-planting movements, what is the typical pattern of leadership?

• A. Foreign leaders govern and maintain control.
• B. No leadership is required.
• C. Indigenous leaders lead and multiply; fast growth.
• D. Leaders do not multiply.

Answer: (C)

Indigenous leadership plus rapid multiplication is how church-planting movements typically grow. Local believers from the community take on leadership roles, train new leaders, and start additional churches within their own networks. This approach gives churches contextual credibility, fits local culture, and leverages existing relationships, so churches can reproduce quickly and sustainably. The emphasis is on self-governing, self-supporting, and locally led churches that multiply rather than relying on outsiders.

Why this fits best: it mirrors the movement’s aim of fast, broad, and enduring expansion through local ownership and ongoing reproduction. Foreign leaders maintaining control would create dependence and slow replication; having no leadership isn’t realistic for growth; and leaders not multiplying contradicts the core aim of successive, exponential church planting.