Four Fields of Kingdom Growth is an excellent church planting resource. I am so thankful for our brother and sister who took the time to write this back in 2007. It is a doctrinally-sound work that was birthed out of praxis, not theory, and is being used of the Lord […]
Church Planting
The call to be a pastor in the post-Christianized West is a call to stand on a bridge between two worlds. The great need of the hour is to know the present, see the potential, and call church planters to move to a possible future. The great need of the […]
Pastors Stand on the Bridge
I read today that a Zaxby’s restaurant had a grand opening in Statesboro, Georgia. I bet they have some good deals on chicken this week. I also see that Pieology Pizzeria in Huntsville, Alabama is scheduled to have their grand opening later in April. My guess is that some great […]
Come to Our Grand Opening!
“Church planting and church revitalization are really similar,” he said. “No. They are not,” I replied. The gravity of the New Testament paradigm reveals that churches are birthed from the harvest (Acts 13-14), not started with a pastor and long-term Kingdom citizens. This does not mean the latter is wrong; […]
Church Planting or Church Revitalization?
I often hear from church planters in North America: Of these 37 local churches, there are no gospel preaching churches in this community. These churches are not Reformed enough (Or, These churches are too Reformed.). They preach the gospel, but it’s not really deep. Just John 3:16 kinda stuff every […]
Doing Away with the Flavor of the Month
I have discovered that every community in the United States has the most: Unchurched per capita Lost per capita Homosexuals per capita Atheists per capita Muslims per capita Agnostics per capita Income per capita Poverty per capita New Age book stores per capita Satan worshipers per capita Witches per capita […]
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