4 Things to Remember When Talking About Your Church
By Alan Patrick | 11.14.2023If you’re going to talk about your sheep, remember to tell the whole story.
How to Use Prayer Meetings to Promote Catholicity
By Ben Lacey | 9Marks Journal: Catholicity | 11.13.2023Use your prayer meeting to help create Great Commission culture in your church, a culture that puts competition to death and extends friendship, hospitality, and generosity to other churches.
Six Marks of a Good Sermon
By Nick Gardner | 11.09.2023How does a preacher know if he’s preaching good sermons?
Church Planting Is Rarely Rapid
By Matthew Spandler-Davison | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023There are two great threats to gospel work in the world’s poor and unengaged communities today: the prosperity gospel and the encouragement toward rapid multiplication.
Equipping Women for Church Planting
By Sharon Dickens | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023Equipping women well and releasing them to serve surely benefits the home and church.
Why Bad Polity Hurt My Church Plant
By Phil Newton | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023Labor on developing polity before starting a church.
Preaching in a Church Planting Context
By Clint Darst | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023As 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 | 11.07.2023Trends should become norms only when they arise from biblical roots.
International Churches as Strategic Gospel Multipliers
By Caleb Greggsen | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023International 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 | 11.07.2023How 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 | 11.07.2023A “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 | 11.07.2023If 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 | 11.07.2023In 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 | 11.07.2023I 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 | 11.07.2023We 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.