Planting

In today's local paper was a story about a new church with an odd design. It was about the church's growthin numbers, and the architecture of the building, not about its spiritual growth or mission or anything like that. Which makes this sentence a bit puzzling:

Cagle said he knows of many people who plant churches who are looking for an inexpensive alternative when it comes to buildings, and he's not territorial when it comes to the unusual architectural style.

"People who plant churches" is in the present tense, so it sounds like an habitual action. Are there people who go around doing this all the time?

I mean, I realize this is an evangelical catch phrase - planting churches - and that it's seen as better to start a new one than try to revive a dying one. But he makes it sound like there are people who do this constantly.

Wait.

Oh, right. Evangelicals and Baptists. They do do it constantly. Christianity Today puts it like this:

[T]oday, church planting is the default mode for evangelism. Go to any evangelical denomination, ask them what they are doing to grow, and they will refer you to the church-planting office. I have talked to Southern Baptists, General Conference Baptists, the Evangelical Free Church, the Assemblies of God, the Foursquare Church, the Acts 29 network, and a variety of independent practitioners and observers. I quit going to more because they all said the same thing: "We're excited and committed to church planting. It's the cutting edge."

I just wonder how these same people can complain that they're being persecuted when they don't pay a penny in taxes on all this new building they have going on.