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Legacy Over Platform: Six Things That Will Outlast Your Sermons
Jon Kelly
In an age where sermons can be downloaded, clipped, shared, and forgotten within hours, it is easy for pastors and church planters to think that our primary influence comes through our preaching. Preaching certainly matters. Faith comes by hearing the...
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Church Planter Identity Crisis
Will Basham
Most Americans don’t just work; we tend to derive identity from our work. Secular research confirms what many of us already feel: our careers don’t simply provide income; they shape our sense of self. It’s no surprise that this is the case when we live in a...
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Fewer Women Are Going to Church. Here’s How Church Plants Can Fix It.
Rivers Partin
Recent research has brought to light a deeply concerning shift: for the first time in decades, women are attending church less than men. For those who care about the spiritual health of our neighbors, this is heavy. For those of us in...
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Your Calling Can’t be Calculated: Assessments and Almost Moments in Church Planting
Noah Oldham
I’ll never forget the day my sending church pastor walked into my office with an email in his hand. He said, “We got your score back from the church planting assessment— specifically your entrepreneurial score. It came back a 38.”...
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3 Things the Storms of Life Help Us See
Ronnie Martin
The first of the year equals desperate times for people in the Midwest. All of the whimsical, Christmas snow that fell so delicately a month before has now turned into piles of icy despair sprinkling the landscape. A 50-degree day...
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6 Reasons to Start a Men’s Ministry
Barnabas Piper
In a church plant, it is hard to know what to emphasize, what to pour your energy into. There are the non-negotiables like preaching, member care, and evangelism (although how you go about evangelism is a whole other pile of questions)....
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Overcoming Discouragement
Adam Muhtaseb
Have you ever been truly discouraged? Not mildly frustrated. Not just worn out after a long week. But the kind of discouragement that makes you quietly wonder, “Can I actually keep going?” Several years into planting in Baltimore, I hit that wall. ...
