Sending Churches: Finding your next church planter
Developing leaders is rarely easy (or fast). It takes time — sometimes years — to discover...
Resources for Multiplication
Church Planting vs. Pastoring: What’s the Difference?
There comes a time in the life of every new church when you shift from church planter to church pastor.
A Professor’s Legacy of Mentoring Church Planters
Steve Lee stood at the front of his Contemporary Evangelism class at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary...
Boston Church Plants Seven Churches in Eight Years
No healthy 36-year-old expects their heart to call it quits — particularly at the genesis of...
What are five ways to maintain a church planting culture?
Vance Pitman, Pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas, Nev., talks about five ways to produce...
Movement is a mindset. Perhaps the very first thing that should be said in regard to...
Pastoring a church when it is no longer a plant: Momentum
My father was one of the greatest high school basketball coaches in Kentucky history. After watching...
Have you ever been thrown into a challenge, only to find out that the whole situation...
e-book: Partnering Well: Planters and Sending Churches
Without a doubt, planting a church without prayer is like building a house on bare ground...
Why celebration is a tool for multiplication
You’ve heard it said that you are what you celebrate and there is nowhere that is truer than...
Why membership is a tool for multiplication
Recently, my wife and I were driving back home, and decided to check out the country...
Tools for multiplication: Preaching
Increasingly, church planting has become a “household term.” And for many reasons that should give us...
Most popular of 2016: #2 Myths of multiplication
The North American Mission Board is blessed by a wide array of voices that speak to...
Most popular of 2016: #3 Don’t plant a church because it’s cool
The North American Mission Board is blessed by a wide array of voices that speak to...
Collegiate Church Planting: Developing leaders
Have you ever had that “aha” moment? It’s that moment something suddenly becomes clear and crystalized....
Sending well: Deploying missionaries from your church
Like most churches, we got our start in church planting slowly. We partnered with several plants...
Sending well: Developing missionaries in your church
“Lord of the harvest, please send workers! My community is ready…I just need help! In Jesus’...
Sending Well: Discovering missionaries in your church
Twenty-six years ago something happened to me that I never anticipated. I found myself believing that...
When Jesus begins His earthly ministry, He picks up right where John the Baptist left off—proclaiming...
Multiplication: Planting churches
The New Testament describes the church’s relationship to Jesus as a marriage. This is a helpful...
Multiplication: Developing leaders
In his letter to the Ephesians, the Apostle Paul has a lot to say. He speaks...
Multiplication: Making disciples
Disciple making is the foundation of church planting. If you want to lead your church to...
After decades of methodological malpractice, we have so rationalized and contorted our understanding of Jesus’ Commission...
“If you ever see a turtle on a fence post it is because someone put it...
Barnabas is a hero to us coach-types. His nickname meant “son of encouragement” and was inspired...
Most major sports have preseason, mini-camps and two-a-days. But now that we are a little over...
Why Multiply? It Is Beneficial
When an effective church planter engages a community, he has an internal and compelling urgency directed...
Our English word church comes from a Greek word ekklesia meaning, “the called-out ones.” The normative pattern in Acts showed...
Don’t Plant a Church Because It’s Cool
After a long and stressful day of Kindergarten, I used to play with G.I. Joes in...
Ready, Set, Go—Equipping Sending Churches pt. 3
Some years ago, the movie “Chariots of Fire” introduced the world to an Olympic champion and...
Ready, Set, Go—Equipping Sending Churches pt. 2
Running has never been really fun for me unless it was an actual race. Although I...
Ready, Set, Go—Equipping Sending Churches
I have been running marathons for almost 15 years now. It’s amazing how the sport of...
Developing leaders to multiply the ministry
One of the reasons developing leaders is so critical for a church is the multiplying result....
In the last post I shared that the first theological distinction deals with the missionary nature...
A Process for Multiplying Disciples
By Jeff Christopherson We like to say to “make disciple-making disciples” to inspire a vision for...
How to Multiply A Missional Community
What steps should we take to multiply? First, assess the health of your group. Make sure...
Financially supporting missionaries and church planters is a centuries old practice in Jesus’ church. Even now,...
SENDING Church: How to Prepare Your Planter
One of the most often asked questions from pastors who have never planted is, “what do...
Challenges to being a sending church
There’s a missions thread that runs through Taylors First Baptist Church. Launched at the time of...
Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, recently stated, “NAMB’s goal is to work...
Every life on mission and every church on mission
“Every Life On Mission” and “Every Church On Mission” are two phrases NAMB will use prominently...
The following is an excerpt from Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that...
Kingdom First: Redefining success
Church planters are a curiously goal-driven group. Give us a numerical goal worth pursuing and we...
The Kingdom-centric church plant
If the goal of a new church is to be relevant, edgy and grow quickly to...
5 Principles to Becoming an Effective Multiplying Church
Dr. Dan Morgan is one of North America’s most experienced and insightful missiologists. He has been...
What are the steps to becoming a church planter?
If you were ever part of a sports team growing up you probably had a coach...
When NOT to Multiply a Missional Community?
Editor’s Note: Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement....
When should I multiply a missional community?
Editor’s Note: Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement....
Why Multiply A Missional Community?
Editor’s Note: Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement....