New Church Planting Book: Extending God’s Kingdom

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 [...]

Read More About - Leading Your Church in Church Planting: Part 4-Avoiding the Nestea Plunge »

This is the third post in my present series to assist pastors in leading their churches in church planting.  For more information on the previous two posts, see the links below: Part 1 – How Churches Grow: The Other Wing of the Airplane” Part 2 – 7 Reasons for Leading Your Church in Church Planting” [...]

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Last week, I kicked off a series on leading your church to plant churches with a post “How Churches Grow-The Other Wing of the Airplane.” Today, I want to provide you with seven reasons for leading your church to be involved in church planting.  Now, I know some of you are already convinced of the [...]

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With this post, I begin another series.  This time, I am specifically writing to pastors–particularly in North America (So, if you know a few of ‘em, get ‘em to subscribe to this blog feed.) Pastors, the challenge from the series, if you choose to accept it:  Lead your church to be involved in church planting [...]

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Several days ago I began a series on the reasons why I believe that much of the mission strategy behind North American church planting is not sufficient for reaching the 75% of the unbelievers in the U. S. and Canada (est. 254,250,000 people), and over 4 billion others across the globe (of which 2 billion [...]

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