Brian O'Day
Your church plant needs membership to become a church. Let me offer five reasons.
Clint Clifton
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.
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.
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