It is so important for new church plants to work hard maintaining this kind of DNA for church planting. Existing church plants can take seve...

As with all illustrations, this does breakdown at some point, but this is an interesting way to understand purpose. Though not all are ...

As a former leader in Mars Hill Church Dave Kraft has some reflections here on what went wrong that lead to its recent demise and how we as...

This article poses an interesting questions for planters to consider as they establish new churches. It's worth reading and pondering t...

Here's some really good advice from Eugene Peterson to his seminary students. A small quote is below, but you should read the whole thi...

I love this quote by J.A. Medders from this post on why we need to be about planting Gospel-centered churches. The planting of gospel-cen...

After unveiling the first version of the new EFCA vision statement during last year's national summit, the national leadership held scor...

Many pastors battle with depression. In light of this reality, I was greatly encouraged this morning reading the classic lecture given by C....

The growth of churches via multisite is continuing at significant rates. In this post Thom Rainer discusses a recent study on this movement...

Some good reminders here for busy pastors and planters. You can't help everyone, but this is hard for many pastors to accept. Here's...

Is a multiplication movement possible? Ed Stetzer thinks it is , but believes it will take some intentional steps on the part of movement le...

For the next two days I'll be live blogging from the Forest Lakes District , EFCA Spring Conference 2014 located at Highlands Community ...

Church planting (and pastoring) is a high demand, high stress job and sleep deprivation is a common problem for those in ministry. Like John...

How are you at managing your time? Everyone's life is "busy" but is everyone's life healthy and fruitful? I think the answ...

One of the growing phenomena in church multiplication over the last 20+ years has been multi-site. According to Wikipedia, in 1990 there wer...

Team leadership from day one. This is one of my goals for church plants, even in the earliest development stages. This upholds both a Biblic...

In this article Aaron Damiani identifies his top 10 church planting tips from 2013. Some helpful thoughts for those of us in the trenches o...

In this post Thom Rainer hits the nail on the head in regard to the growing category of the semi-churched in our faith communities. As a pa...

Some good thoughts here from Bruce Wesley for both those who oversee church planting and for church planters in general. Sometimes people j...

In this post Brandon Cox identifies some characteristics of a healthy group life in your church. He also provides some metrics that clarify...