What is a new church or new congregation?

According to UMC Path1:

We believe a new congregation is more than a mission project, new worship service or new building. For us, it is a newly organized faith community that is committed to making disciples of Jesus Christ and:

• includes regular community worship

• is theologically Wesleyan

• has an effective discipling system

• receives new members

• demonstrates faithful stewardship

• is deeply involved in community outreach

• is willing to plant a new congregation in its first decade

Annual conferences will obviously continue to define what they consider a new congregation.

This definition does not have anything to do with numbers or the way that worship is facilitated. I would add to the list one, holy, catholic, apostolic.

I believe that a home, small group or house church would fit this definition and forget about a decade for this type of community to start a new church. I would say within the first 10 months.

What do you think?