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Sending Churches: Finding your next church planter

Developing leaders is rarely easy (or fast). It takes time — sometimes years — to discover …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Rethinking movement

Movement is a mindset. Perhaps the very first thing that should be said in regard to …

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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 …

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Why the Send Network: Develop

Have you ever been thrown into a challenge, only to find out that the whole situation …

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e-book: Partnering Well: Planters and Sending Churches

Without a doubt, planting a church without prayer is like building a house on bare ground …

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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 …

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Why membership is a tool for multiplication

Recently, my wife and I were driving back home, and decided to check out the country …

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Tools for multiplication: Preaching

Increasingly, church planting has become a “household term.” And for many reasons that should give us …

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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. …

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Sending well: Deploying missionaries from your church

Like most churches, we got our start in church planting slowly. We partnered with several plants …

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Sending well: Developing missionaries in your church

“Lord of the harvest, please send workers! My community is ready…I just need help! In Jesus’ …

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Sending Well: Discovering missionaries in your church

Twenty-six years ago something happened to me that I never anticipated. I found myself believing that …

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Kingdom: building together

When Jesus begins His earthly ministry, He picks up right where John the Baptist left off—proclaiming …

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Multiplication: Planting churches

The New Testament describes the church’s relationship to Jesus as a marriage. This is a helpful …

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Multiplication: Developing leaders

In his letter to the Ephesians, the Apostle Paul has a lot to say. He speaks …

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Multiplication: Making disciples

Disciple making is the foundation of church planting. If you want to lead your church to …

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Myths of multiplication

After decades of methodological malpractice, we have so rationalized and contorted our understanding of Jesus’ Commission …

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Sending well: resourcing

“If you ever see a turtle on a fence post it is because someone put it …

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Sending well: coaching

Barnabas is a hero to us coach-types. His nickname meant “son of encouragement” and was inspired …

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Sending well: training

Most major sports have preseason, mini-camps and two-a-days. But now that we are a little over …

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Why Multiply? It Is Beneficial

When an effective church planter engages a community, he has an internal and compelling urgency directed …

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Is multiplying biblical?

Our English word church comes from a Greek word ekklesia meaning, “the called-out ones.” The normative pattern in Acts showed …

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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 …

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Ready, Set, Go—Equipping Sending Churches pt. 3

Some years ago, the movie “Chariots of Fire” introduced the world to an Olympic champion and …

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Ready, Set, Go—Equipping Sending Churches pt. 2

Running has never been really fun for me unless it was an actual race. Although I …

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Ready, Set, Go—Equipping Sending Churches

I have been running marathons for almost 15 years now. It’s amazing how the sport of …

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Developing leaders to multiply the ministry

One of the reasons developing leaders is so critical for a church is the multiplying result. …

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What is Missional Pt. 3

In the last post I shared that the first theological distinction deals with the missionary nature …

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A Process for Multiplying Disciples

By Jeff Christopherson We like to say to “make disciple-making disciples” to inspire a vision for …

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How to Multiply A Missional Community

What steps should we take to multiply? First, assess the health of your group. Make sure …

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Sending Church: Finances

Financially supporting missionaries and church planters is a centuries old practice in Jesus’ church. Even now, …

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SENDING Church: How to Prepare Your Planter

One of the most often asked questions from pastors who have never planted is, “what do …

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Challenges to being a sending church

There’s a missions thread that runs through Taylors First Baptist Church. Launched at the time of …

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Moved Into Action

Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, recently stated, “NAMB’s goal is to work …

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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 …

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The Myth of Calling

The following is an excerpt from Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that …

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Kingdom First: Redefining success

Church planters are a curiously goal-driven group. Give us a numerical goal worth pursuing and we …

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The Kingdom-centric church plant

If the goal of a new church is to be relevant, edgy and grow quickly to …

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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 …

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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 …

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When NOT to Multiply a Missional Community?

Editor’s Note: Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement. …

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When should I multiply a missional community?

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Why Multiply A Missional Community?

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