Church Planting

Why Church Planters Are Stewards, Not Owners

"Church-planting pastors are most dangerous to their flock when they act as owners."

Didn’t See It Coming!: Why Becoming a Multiplier Is Key to Not Losing Your Way

A multiplier is a healthy disciple-making leader who champions church reproduction.

Why College Grads and Retirees Make Great Church Planters

We tell them, “Give us two years, and we’ll change the world.”

What Is Your Personal Multiplication Capacity?

Fruit doesn’t last by focusing on self-perseveration, but by distributing itself in the soil around it, then dying to reproduce.

Planting a Sending Church

Your church is not just for your neighborhood, but for the nations.

Craft a Vision for Church Planting

In a culture awash in loneliness and isolation, the prospect of meaningful, kingdom-centered relationships centered on mission is a powerful vision.

3 Reasons Networking Is Core to Church Planting

In the next five years at the current rate there will be over 13,000 churches who have a vision to do something that has movement-making potential—start a multiplying network.

Think Outside the Box: What Would God Plant?

Doing church in the traditional way may not be good enough in the mission context in which we're living.

Finding a Better Facility for Your Church Plant

Creative solutions to the conundrum that faces every new church

4 Benefits of Planting a Church With New Believers

What you gain when you don’t overlook new converts.

Multisite Campus Handbook and Best Practices

The one church-multiple locations concept has seen many expressions throughout church history as church leaders adapted to changing cultural realities and leveraged technological advances.