Okay, so maybe everyone else in the blogosphere has see 8 Sure Ways to Shrink a Church over at The Refuge, but I just discovered it for the first time, so there’s a chance you haven’t seen it, too. Here’s a brief outline for you, but you’ll have to read the article to fill in [...]
A couple of days ago, I met with a young Welsh church planter who has moved his family into a hilltop "council estate" (American translation: "government housing project") that needs a tangible, relational, relevant proclamation of the gospel in their needy community. This couple has actually purchased a home in the middle of the estate, [...]
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Posted 19 November 2007
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Daily Scribe § Evangelism § Prayer Requests § Wales
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Tagged: Church Planting, council estate, Dai Hankey, good news, Gospel, Pontypool, rapper, Reformed, Trevethin, UK, Wales, Waleswide
Money. It’s one of those necessary discussions, and sometimes a major factor, in the decision to pursue one’s passion to plant a new church. I get a lot of e-mails from those that come across my Grace Church Planting Ministries website, who see the incredible need all around them and who are seriously engaged in [...]
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Posted 11 September 2007
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Ministry § Theological education
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Tagged: bivocational ministry, chaplaincy, Chaplaincy Job Network, church planters, Church Planting, getting a day job, job benefits, leap of faith, making ends meet, money, salary and benefits, secular employment
Want to be a superhero? Have you thought about becoming a church planter? To read some of the literature out there, the average person can forget about applying for the job. You need the combined skills of a brain surgeon, rocket scientist, Wall Street financier, marketing expert, computer programmer, life coach, and motivational speaker. What [...]
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Posted 04 September 2007
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Missions § Multiplication § North America § Southern Baptists § The Church
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Tagged: church planter, church planter assessment, Church Planting, church planting strategy, demographics, denominational strategies, denominations, Ecuador, foreign missionaries, fundraising, Guy Muse, International Mission Board, international missionaries, North America, rocket science, SBC, super hero, target group
When I hear the word, "Anabaptist," my mind races back to a paradigm-shifting class on "The History of Christianity" by Tom Nettles, professor of church history at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in 1984. I even took another course under my mentor and friend, in which we were required to read a book, Calvin and the [...]
In his paper, "Church Planting in India," Stanley Mehta summarizes a presentation by D. R. David at the Bless India Conference held in Chennai in January 2006. He says, "amidst all the pressures and changes, the church in India is growing more rapidly than ever before. The persecution has begun to bring together many Christian [...]
