A _________ church does not become a church.

• A. Open
• B. Growing
• C. Traditional
• D. Sending satisified

Answer: (D)

The main idea here is that a church is defined by its missional practice of sending out workers to establish new churches. In CAMS thinking, sending is what demonstrates a church’s obedience to the Great Commission and its active participation in multiplication. Without that sending posture, a group may be open, or growing, or traditional, but it isn’t fulfilling the ecclesial identity of a church in mission.

So the statement that a church does not become a church unless it is sending captures the essential requirement: sending out leaders and planters to multiply churches shows the church is functioning as a sending, mission-minded body. Open, growing, or traditional qualities alone don’t guarantee that missional mandate is being carried out, which is why sending is the best-fitting concept.