Clint Clifton
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.
Adam Muhtaseb & Nate Crew
Ray Ortlund says every healthy church has gospel doctrine, but it also must have a gospel culture – “the shared experience of grace for the undeserving.”
Trying to plant a church without a prospectus would be like trying to get a job without a resumé. Before you press “Purchase” on that print order for your prospectus, take some time to review these 10 excellent church planting prospectus samples.
Deborah Yearwood
The call to the church planting life is both gloriously rewarding and terrifyingly difficult. Trials will come, but God is a promise keeper. When the next storm rages in your life, let this article remind you of the Lord’s grace, goodness and faithfulness.
Ed Welch
That pastors ask regularly for prayer in the church should be a non-negotiable. But how transparent should we be with others about our own situations and struggles with sins?
Justin Orr
Two years ago, a wonderful church called me serve as their senior pastor in the aftermath of scandalous pastoral failure. Here's what I can tell you about the three “worst practices” that had knocked the church off-course.
How can we love people more than we want to be loved by them?" The marriage relationship offers us insight.
Mike Godfrey
“The guys at the 9marks table are uncomfortable right now” At a gathering for aspiring and active church planters we regularly heard from planters describing their experiences, mostly their “wins” in church planting thus far. That day our designated speaker...
When your "need" for love from others is unmet, take that hurt to Jesus in repentance.
Daniel Montgomery
You’re a church planter, frantically trying to get your church started. You’re doing it in a pressure cooker from a time standpoint because you’ve only got so much external resources, money that’s going to run out. On top of that,...
Brad Brisco
What if one church-planting path actually offered distinct advantages over traditional and bivo/covo means?
Annie B. Garman
Are you approaching this new year with optimism, cynicism or a little of both? It can be easy at New Year’s to get discouraged by our weakness, our lack of performance the previous year, our lack of spiritual discipline, our...
How can we love people more than we want to be loved by them? At its heart, this is an issue of worship.
I’ve noticed a sort of “postpartum depression” in church planters after the birth of their new church, between the second and fourth years of their planting journey. It happened to me too – and it nearly caused me to give...
Who has to deal with the fear of man more? A salesman who is dependent on cold calls every day or a church planter? How do planters get the approval of those around them to win them to a church plant? That’s an issue of the fear of man.
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