What to call those new fandanged churches?

New churches are popping up everywhere and have been ever since the church planting movement began to take shape two decades ago. If you are looking for a good phrase that describes then, sorry, you are out of luck. Stuart Murray Williams gives a little historical perspective of these new fandangled churches and lists 8 phrases we have used to describe them:

- Missionary congregations
- Church planting
- Missional church
- New ways of being church
- Emerging church
- Emergent church
- Mission-shaped church
- Fresh Expressions