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.
The Priority of Patience, Prayer, and Preaching in Church Planting
By Josh Manley | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023As 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 | 11.07.2023Like 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.
Church Planting in the Same Building
By Matthew Spandler-Davison | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023I simply want to offer an alternative to a costly building campaign or tying up resources in more bricks and mortar. That alternative is establishing a network of churches that partner together to share property and resources, and support each other in the work of the ministry.
Stop Launching Churches, Covenant Together Instead
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023The word covenant will help to shepherd our people into a richer, deeper, and more biblical picture of what the life of the local church is and what it’s not.
Planting Churches for Pleasure, Not for Profit
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023Here are three principles we should all consider so that we might plant churches for the infinite pleasure of God’s glory over and against our own profit.
Personal Evangelism for the Planter and the Church Plant
By J. Mack Stiles | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023If evangelism is to be woven into the fabric of the life of a new church plant and its pastor, it takes some thought and planning.
The Blessings and Burdens of a Church Planter’s Wife
By Gloria Furman | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023Blessings and burdens mingle together as we live in this world that groans for the Day of redemption.
What 9Marks Purists Should Know About Church Planting
By Ed Stetzer | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023Learn best practices, learn how to engage the lost, learn how to lead your church well to engage its community, but don’t do so by moving away from the gospel, the Scriptures, and a biblical understanding of church.
The Church Planter’s Second Priority: Raising Up Leaders
By Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023By developing other leaders who can teach, disciple, evangelize, counsel, and shepherd the flock, you raise up others who can care for the health of all the church members.
You Can’t Plant a Church If You Don’t Know What a Church Is
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023You need a robust ecclesiology that’s in place well before you start trying to plant a church.
