Ed Stetzer: Discipleship Reimagined
The church is not a fortress to protect believers from the world. It is an outpost to send disciple makers into the world.
The church is not a fortress to protect believers from the world. It is an outpost to send disciple makers into the world.
If we attempt to provide for others without first being nourished ourselves, we burn out. We wound ourselves and others.
Church leaders, parents, those who are walking with a person whom they are discipling, or anyone with spiritual influence should help other believers dig deeply into the Scriptures and mine lessons on evangelism.
All kinds of churches will reach all kinds of people that your current church is not reaching. Bigger is not better. More is better.
Seventeen percent of churches say they were directly or substantially involved in a church plant that opened in the last three years.
In its first decade, Suncrest was a young, small church without the resources to do what they’re doing now.
AI is not the enemy; it is a tool. But it is a tool that demands careful stewardship.
“We are bringing ‘church’ to every house that the Lord will open, as well as to railroad yards, under trees, in slum areas and more.” -Del Monte
Church planting isn’t just strategy—it’s a craft. Learn how failure, community and innovation shape effective and sustainable ministry.
Jesus came to us. It is that same incarnational example that moves us to go to our community.