We need to change our dialogue! "Church Planting" is not the goal, bringing people to Jesus should be the headline and main point of this discussion. The Denver NW Circuit of the Rocky Mountain District started a group of a few years ago under the "Gospel Gaps" initiative to look at where we could "church plant". What we discovered was our greatest opportunity was and is where we were already. For instance, Arvada, CO already has 3 LCMS churches but if you took the total membership of all churches in Arvada into the total population, it would be less than 30%. Part of the solution was to call a local pastor as a full time "urban missionary". His efforts include missional communities, preaching and most of all, bringing people to Christ. Some of our existing churches need to re-task, but have no idea how to do it. We have struggling churches in our circuit, we are reaching out to try to help them. Maybe the best solution is one presented by Pastor Dave Ahlman of Peace Lutheran, Arvada: "One", just bring one person who doesn't know Jesus to Him.