Church Planting

How Does Church Planting Benefit the Sending Church?

Can giving away your best people be a good thing?

The 3 Phases of Church-Planting Churches

Where is your church on this progression toward being a church-planting church?

Why Church Planters Are Stewards, Not Owners

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

A Snapshot of the Coming Kingdom

America is becoming increasingly more representative of this vision as it becomes more ethnically diverse. So, how is this multiracial reality shaping the planting of new churches?

How 7 Veteran Church Planters Found Their First 50 People

Over the years, I’ve had a number of church planters ask me about the launch. After all, it’s one thing to take over an...

Dealing With Pastoral Pain

How I learned to heal from the hurts that come with being a church leader.

3 Steps to Clarify Your Church Planting Vision

Pay attention to these vital steps before you launch a church.

Multiplication Beyond 2022—Looking at the Essentials

Take a walk with us back to March 2020. One by one, venues where people gathered began closing their doors: restaurants, hair salons, gyms—even...

The Marks of a Multiplying Church

5 levels every church must reach to fulfill the Great Commission

Øystein Gjerme: Why It Matters That We Are God’s Masterpiece

Our identity is not primarily in our work, but in the God who calls us.

A Church Plant Can Be a Sending Church

Why you don’t have to wait to plant the next church