Free E-Book: Leading Your Church in Church Planting

Few churches in North America are involved in church planting.  I want to be involved in changing this unfortunate reality. Today, I am releasing my latest e-book Leading Your Church in Church Planting: Taking the First Steps.  This 62-page work is designed to encourage and provide some guidance for pastors considering such missionary work. While [...]

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I am preparing to release my next free e-book. Check out the video below for more information.  Stay tuned. Happy Thanksgiving!

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This week I begin a semester-long training course for church planters.  I always look forward to it.  One of the first things that the participants experience is that I quickly tell them that our work is not about church planting. Now, I recognize this is a strange statement for a church planting professor to make, [...]

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I had the honor of spending the last two days in Hernando, Mississippi serving as one of the speakers for the first annual meeting of the One8 Network.  Since several of the participants requested copies of my Power Point presentations, I told them that I would post them here on the blog (linked below). While [...]

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The Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College has just published a new book on church planting.  Extending God’s Kingdom: Church Planting Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is a compilation of chapters written by church planters and missiologists.  Over the years, these chapters appeared as articles in various volumes of the Evangelical Missions Quarterly. Laurie Fortunak Nichols, [...]

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My family and I recently watched A Christmas Carol.  You know the story.  Scrooge is visited by different spirits, trying to provide him with a different perspective on his past, present, and future.  Each apparition challenges him to see his world from a different angle. At times, we all need a change of perspective for [...]

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Last week at Southern Seminary a group of 70 collegiate ministers and church planters gathered to discuss a growing area in missions today.  These men and women arrived from the United States and Canada, and for three days addressed a multitude of issues related to reaching students through church planting and training students as church [...]

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In this sixth and final post in my series on leading your church in church planting, I wish to bring to your attention a few of the most common objections toward church planting.  One thing I learned when pastoring established churches was that objections will come.  In light of this reality, pastors need to be [...]

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In this fifth post of my series to pastors on leading in church planting, I want to share with you about casting a vision for church multiplication.  You may want to check out my article, “The Art of Vision Casting for Church Multiplication” for some additional assistance. By now, I assume that you have a [...]

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I am going back to my series today on Leading Your Church in Church Planting.  While I have additional posts coming on Cape Town 2010, I felt that I needed to return to the present series.  You can find parts 1-3 listed below: Part 3: Some Resources to Get You Started Part 2: 7 Reasons [...]

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