And now critical issue #2–the need for leaders to assist in the work. Of the 190 participants surveyed, leadership development came in as the second most critical issue in North American church planting circles. Church planters are finding out that it is very difficult to locate solid leaders who are […]
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Continuing to countdown the five most critical issues in North American church planting (see HERE and HERE if you have not caught the other posts in this series), we now come to #3. Church planters in the study noted that Critical Issue #3 involved the reality of turfish and/or apathetic […]
Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #3 Turfish and ...
If you did not catch Critical Issue #5 first mentioned on February 15, you can read it HERE. Now we come to Critical Issue #4: The Challenge of Contextualization. When the church planters noted this issue they were referring to the difficulties experienced in effectively communicating the gospel and planting churches in diverse contexts. They found out that church planting […]
Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #4 The Challenge ...
Today I begin a 5-part series of posts related to critical issues facing church planters in the United States and Canada. Several years ago, I did an informal study in which I surveyed 190 individualswho were involved in many different areas of church planting. They were from four Canadian Provinces and […]
Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #5 Stress on ...
We now come to the final post related to my reflections on the report of evangelical concentrations in the U.S. and Canada. I wish to wrap up this series with a word of caution and suggestion for our next steps. Caution: The Dangers of Research I believe it was Dayton […]
Reflections #3: We Must Not Stop With Knowing the Facts
If I had a nickel for each time I heard a church planter say, “My city is the most unreached city in the country,” or “My county is the most unchurched county in the nation,” I would be a wealthy man. . . . Okay, maybe not wealthy. . . . But I […]