Ed Young, Jr. recently blogged and spoke to his staff about "Church Pirates." Church Pirates are church planters who left a church to start their own thing, taking lots of people (and money?) with them.

Ed Young so strongly condemns this in his video, even going so far as to say that any church that experiences transfer growth is a Church Pirate. This is interesting because so many churches are innovating to attract outsiders - they are also probably attracting members of other churches.

Watch the video (7 min)

He's probably referring to the kinds of church planters (like Absalom), who build-up a following at their old church and split with the old church to do something different (or "better").

Is a church split always wrong? When does a Church Planter become a Church Pirate?