[Xenalyte]

Many people are being called to lead and cannot do so in their own church, so they begin a new one.

Wouldn't that I-gotta-run-things impulse lead to fragmentation? I mean, you can't have all chiefs. You have to have some rank-and-file Indians.

One of the most important facets of leadership is that you must have followers, and if everyone is "called to lead," who will follow?

[TexanToTheCore]

Hi Xena,

Not everyone is called to lead. Just some. As far as fragmentation is concerned, it could also be called diffusion or out-reach. Again, a negative argument provided when a positive one was offered.

I would never start a new church over doctrinal differences as I am a died in the wool SBC'er. But I might start a new church if given the chance, whether it be in Zimbabwe or Houston.

Houston has 7,000 churches. Most of them were started due to the need to follow the calling of "church planter" and "missionary", not for reasons of doctrinal differences.