Kingdom Expansion is the Goal
God has birthed your church because He has a heart for the kingdom of God to be expanded all over the world.
Topic: Church Planting
How to Handle Kingdom Conflict
Throw passionate leaders together in the high-pressure context of doing ministry in hard places and you’re sure to see sparks fly as iron sharpens iron.
Deep Bench
The task of leadership discovery, development, and deployment is a vital catalyst in reaching the vast…
Becoming a Church That Cares Well for the Abused
Every church must be equipped to respond well in the initial stages of learning about instances…
Five Markers of Healthy Planting Wives
A tree puts down roots and bears fruit. The process of growth and life becomes observable…
Praying Bold Prayers
God’s people have the ability to ask Him for big things. But you might be like most…
Should I Have Family Members as Team Members?
Would your family be a fruitful addition to your core team or send you toward a Jerry Springer-style family meltdown? Will Klotz offers some pros and cons, along with a few pieces of practical wisdom he picked up as a planter himself.
5 Steps for Planning Your Preaching Calendar
Digital media have made it easy to hear excellent communicators. That has created high expectations among today’s church attendees. Planning your preaching ought to be a top priority and Rick Duncan offers five steps to get you there.
Church Planter, Plan What You Preach!
You don’t want to wait until the last minute decide what you will preach. Mike Godfrey lists seven benefits of planning what you will preach.
Articulating Your Leadership Ethos
Putting the intangibles of culture into words isn’t very easy. We offer our church’s values document with the hope you find it helpful as you work to build Jesus’ church and lead His sheep.
When Crisis Strikes Your Ministry
A veteran of 20 years in strategic communications, Christian Pinkston offers a big-picture overview of several key factors in church crisis communications.
Church Planters Face This Great Danger
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.
Building Your Core Team
It’s not difficult to convince people to join a new venture like a church. But it…
The Downside of Professional Christianity
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.
5 Reasons Your Church Plant Needs Membership
Your church plant needs membership to become a church. Let me offer five reasons.
3 Great Side Hustles for Church Planters
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?
Creative Facility Solutions for New Churches
Buildings too often hinder gospel advancement. The church is a people, not a building. It’s the…
Crushing Expectations in Church Planting
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.
Charles Spurgeon, Pt.1 – Church Planting Ethics
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.
Charles Spurgeon, Pt.2 – The Priority of Church Planting
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?
Church Planters, Let’s be Honest
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.
4 Benefits of Building Your Team from New Believers
The goal of church planting is to see new people come to faith in Jesus Christ….
3 Ways Church Planting is Harder Than Prison
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.
10 ‘Must-See’ Prospectus Samples
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.
Cut Your ‘Needs’ Idol Down to Size
When your “need” for love from others is unmet, take that hurt to Jesus in repentance.
7 Advantages of Non-Profit Planting
What if one church-planting path actually offered distinct advantages over traditional and bivo/covo means?
The Love Imbalance We Seek
How can we love people more than we want to be loved by them? At its heart, this is an issue of worship.
Church Planter Postpartum Depression?
I’ve noticed a sort of “postpartum depression” in church planters after the birth of their new…
Church Planters and the Fear of Man
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.
3 Reflections of a Hard-Headed Church Planter
Though God’s grace has been shown in my life and in the church I serve, I wish I’d remembered the old adage: “God gave you two ears and one mouth, so listen twice as much as you talk.”
3 Benefits of Bivocational Church Planting
A new movement is afoot: More church planters are choosing to plant bivocationally because they see it as a more desirable way to plant a new church. Here are three advantages to bivocational church planting.
Five Keys to Church Planting Success
When I began church planting, I was so zealous to see new churches started and so confident in God’s power…
Will Planting Mess Up My Kids?
Today, I had someone introduce me like this “This is Noah. His dad started the church.”…
Demystifying Church Planter Funding
Before we start this conversation, it’s important to note that church planting isn’t always a full-time…
How Do I Get Started in Planting?
To get started in church planting, you must confirm that God has called you to this work.
The Distinctions of Networked, Family, and Multisite Churches
Drew Hyun explains the differences between a networked church, a family of churches, and a multisite church in terms of structure.
3 Questions Pastors Must Ask
Having been around a lot of pastors at our various confabs across the world, I’ve noticed something unhealthy.
Strategic Church Planting: Your Master Plan
A vision is unique to you and will capture your heart and life.
Three Differences Between a Campus Pastor and an Associate Pastor
Sam Yoon shares three things that make being the #1 guy different from being the #2 guy.
How to Transform a Community
One of the great and worthy causes of church planting is the desire to influence neighborhoods and cities for the gospel of Jesus.
The Implications of Your Church Plant’s Vision
When you’re casting vision, here are three implications you want to keep reminding your church of, pre- and post-launch.
The Three Things Every Campus Pastor Needs to Do
To be effective in ministry, you need to do these three things well.
Three Essentials for an Attractional Church Plant
How can a church plant be more attractional with such limited resources?
Freelancing, Money, and Finding a Job in Bivocational Ministry
Bivocational ministry means you’re intentionally leveraging all of life into one calling.
4 Ways to Find Launch Members
To plant a church you need a solid launch team. Get the best practices from Daniel Im on growing your launch team.
Six Knacks of Bivocational Ministry
To live a good life in bivocational ministry, you must have an aptitude in six key areas.
Nike for Church Planters
How much time are you spending hanging out with skeptical, curious and confused not-yet Christ followers?
How to Create a Solid Communication Framework in a Multisite Model
If you are going to plant a grape vineyard, don’t plant apple seeds.
3 Ways Tesla Affects Your Church Metrics
What do you think would happen if you reimagined your church’s dashboard?
6 Mistakes I Made as a Church Planter
Mark Dance shares the mistakes he made as a church planter to equip you not to repeat them.
3 Reasons We Shouldn’t Copy Someone Else’s Vision
A knockoff is an unauthorized copy or cheap imitation of the original. The quality cannot be easily matched or imitated. So, it is with vision.
3 Overlooked Qualities of a Successful Church Planter
Learn these qualities that are mentioned less often but are very important to becoming a successful church planter.
5 Mistakes I Made as a Church Planter
Dustin Neeley shares some mistakes he has made as a church planter and the valuable insight he gained because of them.
5 Steps for Leading Yourself as a Church Planter
Dustin Neeley gives five steps to help lead yourself better as a church planter so you can lead your family or church well.
5 Common Mistakes of Urban Church Planters
We need as many kinds of churches that we can get in cities.
Are You a Church Planter or Pirate?
I don’t know of any church planter who intentionally seeks to grow at the expense of another church, but it happens way too often.
Temptations for the Urban Church Planter
Many times we are tempted to presume upon God to bless our reckless choices.
Don’t Just Start a Church; Establish a Family
Too often, we seek to first establish infrastructure (our organization, church, etc.) before actually living on mission in our context.
The Missionary Strategy of the Early Church
There has never been a more rapidly growing movement than the post-apostolic church.
Campus Pastor Skill #2: How to Lead Across
Campus pastors don’t need to learn how to lead laterally, but the best ones know how to.
Thinking of Planting a Church in a City? Start Here…
Church planters—if you’re called to a city and you’re married, your whole family ought to feel called.
Small Towns Are Unique [Part 2]
It’s often said that newspapers in small towns don’t report the news, they confirm the news.
Small Towns Are Unique [Part 1]
Significant differences exist between small towns and larger cities when it comes to being on mission.
Recommended Church Planting Books: New and Old
Today, more than ever, we have an abundance of digital resources, webinars, training videos, and templates for church planting.
Am I Called To Be A Church Planter?
The natural outflow of the Great Commission is the planting of new churches.
Church Planting and Funding Facilities
As people steward financially into your church, they will expect that the money is handled well.
Intro to Developing a Budget
Budgeting and fundraising are often two of the most daunting things that church planters face. This doesn’t have to be the case.
Top Ten things to Know When Finding a Facility for Your Church Plant
Most of the time, church plants don’t know how much space they’ll need.
The Church is Not the Building So You Do Not Need One
It is imperative that you get clarity on who you are and what your ministry is called to do.
Starting Churches that Reach H1B Visa Non Immigrant Visa Holders
Churches should not overlook this burgeoning mission opportunity.
A Case for Bivocationality
What if there isn’t enough “grain to tread,” in the specific way our proverbial ox-hoof was designed by God?
Why I’m Taking a 3-month Sabbatical After 3 Years into Planting a Church
I want to be joyfully ministering for the long haul.
Trend #3 for the Future of Church Planting: Residencies and Theological Education
Seminaries are realizing that ministerial training happens best in the context of a local church.
Trend #2 for the Future of Church Planting: Bivocational Ministry
Instead of looking down on pastors for being bivocational, we should lift them up as our heroes.
Trend #1 for the Future of Church Planting: Kingdom Collaboration
Together we can accomplish more than we can ever do alone.
Three Steps of Every Church Plant’s Vision
We must take time to craft the vision for our church, and the elements of mission and ministry in it.
The Two Most Important Elements of Preaching
If Jesus’ sermons didn’t necessarily contain much new content, what made his teaching so attractive?
In This Time: Leadership Lessons from Esther
Renewal, restoration, transformation, and salvation will come from here or another place.
How to Build Your Campus Launch Template
One of the biggest benefits to being multisite is that you can begin to build systems that allow you to launch new churches.
What I Wish I Knew About Moving From An Associate Pastor to a Lead Pastor
One of the challenges for me as a church planter is not knowing what I don’t know.
2 Kinds of Multi-Ethnic Churches
Even if a church does not talk about race/social issues as much, these churches care deeply about what God is doing globally.