by Jeff Hoglen | Dec 12, 2018 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, International Church Planting
I have spent some time on the mission field. My involvement was weeks or at times months at a time. I have a special place in my heart for those who spend years and even decades in service to our Lord in third world countries. Just thinking about the preparation...
by Ron Edmondson | Oct 26, 2018 | Church Leadership
As leaders, we all want to limit the risk in the hard decisions we make. Personally, whenever we are about to make a major change or launch some new initiative, I want our team to think through things which could go wrong. I want to know who is going to be upset with...
by Mark Batterson | Oct 22, 2018 | Church Leadership
The following is parts 6 and 7 of the article by Pastor Mark Batterson concerning recommended steps in goal setting. With the new year fast approaching, the staff at churchplanting.com hope this post will get your creative juices flowing and we pray that the next...
by Steve Sjogren | Aug 8, 2018 | Outreach and Evangelism
While shopping at Best Buy, I had a sense that if I were to offer to pray for a salesperson standing by me that God would give me his prayer. Don’t you know that it is one thing to pray and another to pray effectively? When God provides a prayer, count on it — it’s...
by Neil Cole | Aug 6, 2018 | Church Planting
Some have said that Paul only started 14 churches in his lifetime. If so that is a remarkable thing, but I tend to think there are more than 14. I would assume that there are some churches started that were not necessarily mentioned as churches in the NT. For...