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- 21. How You Can Prepare Your Congregation for a New Mission Field
- Note: This is the third in a four-part series. Part 1 Part 2 In the past few weeks, I have talked about some recent church-planting shifts that I have noticed, both through the lens of research and some ...
- Created on 22 August 2019
- 22. Church-Planting Shift: Focus on This Group Instead of Nominal Christians ...
- Note: This is part 2 of a four-part series. In part 1 of our series on subtle, yet important church-planting shifts, we dealt with the changing face of the church launch. As I mentioned, this includes ...
- Created on 15 August 2019
- 23. Pastors, Pay Attention to These Church-Planting Trends ...
- Note: This is the first of a four-part series. Church planting is somewhat of an entrepreneurial enterprise that tends to be on the front end of change, both catalyzing change and being catalyzed by change. ...
- Created on 06 August 2019
- 24. How New Hispanic Churches Experience More Growth With Less Money ...
- New Hispanic church works in the U.S. see similar patterns of attendance growth and conversions as other church plants despite having a fraction of the financial support and training, as well as facing ...
- Created on 29 July 2019
- 25. Why It's Better to Be Real Than Good in Ministry
- ... s. I needed to know more about theology, about leadership, about church systems and structures, and about how to manage a nonprofit organization. Then came the day my life was falling apart. It's actu ...
- Created on 12 July 2019
- 26. 5 Common Struggles Young Pastors Face
- Several years ago, I spent a couple of hours with a group of young pastors. It was a cross representation of church planters and pastors of established churches. There were healthy churches and unhealthy ...
- Created on 11 July 2019
- 27. 8 Reasons Your Church Plant Isn't Growing ...
- I've worked with a lot of church plants. And I've been involved in two church plants as the planter. Every planter goes into the process hoping to see lives changed with the gospel, hoping to grow. So ...
- Created on 31 October 2018
- 28. 20 Wise Pieces of Advice for Church Planters ...
- After spending more than eight years in youth ministry, my wife Annette and I moved from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to central Illinois in December of 1997 to plant a church that would target unchurched and de-churched ...
- Created on 08 June 2018
- 29. Vital Components of a Healthy Church-Planting Model ...
- ... ve discussion and differences of opinion that force us to re-evaluate our viewpoints and emphases to ensure that we're thinking biblically and effectively. For example, right now, the tension in church plan ...
- Created on 03 April 2018
- 30. Why the Era of American Missionaries Is Coming to an End
- ... oversee hundreds of churches and collectively oversee thousands of churches in some of the most difficult and challenging places Christians can operate. One thing I discovered was that they were hungry ...
- Created on 14 March 2018
- 31. Studies Show This Is Still the Best Way to Evangelize a City
- ... d of operations to carry out the task of Christian engagement. Some missiologists call this "church planting." Several studies have shown that one of the best ways to evangelize a city is to establish a ...
- Created on 23 February 2018
- 32. This Pentecostal Denomination Is Now Thriving in 184 Countries
- ... Church of God now has an established presence. Bhutan, known also as the Kingdom of Bhutan-Druk Yul, is located in the eastern Himalaya Mountains. The population is expected to be at 819,781 by the year ...
- Created on 12 January 2018
- 33. 9 Reasons So Many Young Churches Fizzle Out ...
- The past four decades of working with churches, as well as overseeing a network of churches, have taught me several lessons related to their success and failure. In this article, I will try to pinpoint ...
- Created on 02 August 2017
- 34. 5 Essential Ingredients for Planting Purpose-Driven Churches ...
- If the local church is the hope of the world... then we need more local churches. As I write this, I'm a couple of hours away from teaching a lab at Saddleback Church's Hope Renewed conference on planti ...
- Created on 30 June 2017
- 35. God's Audacious Church-Planting Strategies ...
- Note: This is part two of a two-part series. For part one, click here. Acts 13-28 In Acts 13:1-2, we see that the leadership of the Antioch church regularly ministered to the Lord together with the practice ...
- Created on 17 May 2017
- 36. Take These Hidden Factors Into Consideration When Planting a Church ...
- I once wrote an article that cautioned against planting or pastoring a church in your head, which has come up in the contextualization series I'm posting here. What I mean is there's a danger of adopti ...
- Created on 12 May 2017
- 37. The Audacious, Untamed God of Church Planting ...
- Ever since the dawn of the era of the church, God has exploded onto the scene of humanity with awesome displays of strategy, power and missionary expansion. There is no greater example of this in the Scriptures ...
- Created on 03 May 2017
- 38. 10 Principles for Planting a Multiplying, Purpose-Driven Church ...
- When Kay and I arrived in Orange County, it wasn't our mission to plant a megachurch. We wanted to plant a mission church. That is, we wanted to plant a church that would plant other churches. We wante ...
- Created on 08 February 2017
- 39. One Clear-Cut Sign Your Church Is Mature and Healthy ...
- Church planting is part of Saddleback's DNA. We've started at least one church every year since the beginning. It is simply who we are. We believe that mature churches are just like mature plants or matu ...
- Created on 10 January 2017
- 40. What My Third Church Plant Might Look Like ...
- My name is John Burton, and I'm a church planter. I find it hard to go long before the itch for advancing the kingdom through new works starts to really get to me. Recently, I've been praying and thinki ...
- Created on 10 January 2017
