Okay. I realize this post is a little longer than what I normally do, but it is critical issue #1. Let’s quickly review: Critical Issue #5 Stress on the Family Critical Issue #4 The Challenge of Contextualization Critical Issue #3 Turfish and Apathetic Churches Critical Issue #2 Need for Leaders And Critical […]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
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 […]
Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #2 Need for ...
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 ...
I realize I just started a series of posts on critical issues and church planters. However, just moments before I had planned on posting critical issue number 4, I received this information from Jeff Palmer, Executive Director of Baptist Global Response, addressing the present realities in Haiti. This update is current […]
BAPTIST GLOBAL RESPONSE: UPDATE ON HAITI
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 […]