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“When people have found a church that works for them, it is more natural that they should associate with a movement that brings this kind of church nearer to them, than try to join a different local church lacking this draw.”Ī more recent report, Love, Sweat and Tears, by the Centre for Theology and Community, studied five churches in East London, which belong to the HTB network, planted between 20. Those attending were people who would have liked to have attended Holy Trinity, Brompton, but lived outside central London.ĭemanding that people attend their existing parish church “lacks credibility”, the report argued. A 2002 paper from the Sheffield Centre for Church Planting and Evangelism, Dynasty or Diversity? The HTB family of churches, concluded that most of the planting - then confined to London - was “following population movement among Christians”. HTB plants have been subject to a degree of scrutiny over the years.
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The language of empire-building and hostile takeovers is not infrequently used. When a plant into an Anglo-Catholic church was announced last year, one priest mourned online: “Another great Catholic parish bites the dust!”Īs the network expands - the 33 listed on the church’s website is not exhaustive - questions continue to be asked about the source of their celebrated numerical growth, and the diversity of their congregations.
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The view that a plant from the “HTB” network centred on Holy Trinity, Brompton (HTB), will “sweep up all of the young beautiful people, but it won’t actually care any more about elderly people or poor people” is familiar to the Vicar of St John the Baptist, Hoxton, with Christ Church, east London, the Revd Graham Hunter, who encountered hostility and suspicion when he arrived in 2010, from St Mary Magdalene, Holloway. was informed by a familiar view of church-planting. WHILE “the Revd Darren Betts” was a work of satire, the smoothie-wielding Evangelical priest in Rev.