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.
Church Planters, Don’t Wait to Put Your Documents in Place!
By Joel Kurz | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023We 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 | 11.07.2023As 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 | 11.07.2023Our God wastes absolutely nothing.