I really enjoyed the perspective Ed Young puts forward in the following video “Church Planting.” In my opinion, I think he nails the issue when he says that some churches are not church plants but church “transplants” instead. This happens when people join churches with suspect motives - they want to build their “own kingdom” and siphon and leverage people and resources from that church in order to build their own as they “obey the calling of God” in their own lives.
This is different from legitimate church plants - where a group moves on to start a new venture. This pretty much happened with my church. But church pirates are a different bunch and Ed discusses this below.
What you have said