Ryan Johnston
When it comes to funding residencies, we have everything we need within arm’s reach to do everything God has asked of us.
Bob Burton
What are the two best things any pastor could do to find great residents?
You can build a lasting residency program that you deeply believe in by working through a process that helps you define three things: your terms, your why and your content.
Clint Clifton
Your encouragement quite literally could change the course of someone's life forever. Let me tell you about two that changed mine.
Trevin Wax
Familiarity is the enemy of wonder. Church planters face a danger common to anyone heavily involved in ministry: We get familiar with holy things. Perhaps overly familiar.
My service in vocational ministry, particularly in church planting, has complicated my daily walk with Christ. The deeper into professional Christianity I got, the more I felt sinfully entitled in four ways.
Brian O'Day
Your church plant needs membership to become a church. Let me offer five reasons.
These days it seems every church planter has a "side hustle." The increasingly expensive cities we are working to reach have created a need for a marketable skill or trade that will provide a missiological and financial foothold in the community. So what side hustles are most compatible with church planting?
Dan Mackett
Buildings too often hinder gospel advancement. The church is a people, not a building. It’s the gathering of God’s people to worship Him and grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Yet the assembly...
Matt Felton
Pressure points in church planting conspire to overwhelm us. We must draw these things up to the surface and examine the sources – healthy and unhealthy – before God.
Gabe Martin
Among the myriad of ministries to which Charles Spurgeon was committed, one of the most impactful was his commitment to establishing new churches. Let me share with you three of his ethical considerations that church planters 140 years later still would do well to incorporate into their ministry.
Why would Charles Spurgeon, pastor of the massive Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, urge members to leave the congregation to devote themselves to the prosperity of other churches?
Tom Bennardo
The truth about church planting never resembles the architect's renderings and the slick “plant with us” pamphlets. The realities can leave you confused and disillusioned. Here are five truths that might keep you keep you sane and in the game.
Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., is well known for its effective intern program. Our Clint Clifton sat down with Mark Dever, the church’s senior pastor, to discuss the nuts and bolts of the program.
Most pastors who successfully lead their churches to multiply likely will share these 10 characteristics.
Mike Cosper
Five crucial takeaways pastors and church leaders should glean from the podcast, “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill”
Ed Stetzer
The goal of church planting is to see new people come to faith in Jesus Christ. Thus, a core team built from the harvest of lost men and women is an ideal foundation for the mission the plant is pursuing...
Kenneth Jones
Throughout my time as a church planter, I’ve reflected on how the difficulties faced in planting a church are, in many ways, harder than anything I faced in prison.
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