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.
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.
