Why Bad Polity Hurt My Church Plant

By Phil Newton | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

Labor on developing polity before starting a church.

Preaching in a Church Planting Context

By Clint Darst | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

As you step into the laborious, weighty, joyful, and glorious work of church planting, I offer you four simple encouragements.

Five Trends in Church Planting

By M. Rogers, P. Newton | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

Trends should become norms only when they arise from biblical roots.

International Churches as Strategic Gospel Multipliers

By Caleb Greggsen | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

International churches can work as strategic platforms for enhancing existing gospel work in a city.

Shepherding the Heart in Sending

By Dave Kiehn | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

How do you shepherd the hearts of those who are sent? What about those who stay?

Preparing to Plant Is a Whole Church Effort

By Dwayne Milioni | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

A “whole church” approach to planting involves preparing, sending, and ongoing engagement of church planters and their teams.

Revitalization with an Eye Toward Church Planting

By Matt Capps | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

If you are currently in the midst of a revitalization, don’t necessarily neglect church planting.

Church Planting by Peaceable Division

By Colin Clark | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

In September our church did something crazy, and I offer six lessons we learned from the process.

Church Planters, Make Sure Your People Know You Love Them

By Steve Jennings | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

I once asked a long-time pastor: “What’s one piece of advice you would give a first-time pastor preparing to plant a church?”

Taking Risks in Church Planting by Sending Your Best Members and Elders

By Juan Sanchez | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

We can always find reasons, even good ones, for not planting a church. And yet, the need for church planting in my town far outweighs whatever adverse effects we may face.

Church Planters, Don’t Wait to Put Your Documents in Place!

By Joel Kurz | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

We waited three years to put our church documents in order, and we suffered for it.

Church Planting across Ethnic Lines

By Joel Kurz | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

As you carefully move forward in humility and with wisdom, be encouraged that God often uses cross-cultural work for his own glory.

Knowing When to Say When: Reflections from a Failed Church Plant

By Derek Bass | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

Our God wastes absolutely nothing.

The Priority of Patience, Prayer, and Preaching in Church Planting

By Josh Manley | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

As you patiently “preach and pray, love and stay,” you’ll find that your church has been planted on fertile soil that bears up good and lasting fruit.

How to Do Ministry When You Have No Money

By Brian Davis | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023

Like King David, we don’t go armed from the armory of the world—no, our stones from the brook are promises from the Word of God.