Preparing to Church Plant
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.
Why Not to Plant Churches
By Phil Newton | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.01.2023Yes, plant churches. But do so after counting the cost.
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.
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.
Partnering Together to Plant
By Nate Akin | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.13.2023While churches are independent and autonomous, they also are interdependent for the sake of those who don’t know the Lord.
Pastor, Not Entrepreneur
By Nathan Knight | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.06.2023Emphasizing the acumen of Wall Street and the values of Silicon Valley in what to look for in a planter distracts us from paying attention to the New Testament’s emphases—who a man is.
Pastor, Not Entrepreneur, Part 2
By Matt McCullough | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 11.07.2023You can lead a church plant and not be an entrepreneur. But you shouldn’t lead a church plant if you’re not a pastor.
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.
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.
Sending Out a Church Plant
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.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Advice for Members on Church Plants
By John Joseph | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.11.2023Here are four clear reasons why you should consider not joining a new church plant.
Sending Out Future Leaders Strategically
By Matt Rogers | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.20.2023Pastors developing future leaders can help using these seven diagnostic questions.
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.
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?
Planting a Church
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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?”
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.
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 Planting in Hindsight
Church Planting Roundtable: Counting the Cost
By C. Greggsen, J. Joseph, J. Chatman, T. Ross, W. Forrest, Z. San | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.19.2023Six church planters—national and international—explain how they wish they had counted the cost, which yields counsel for the rest of us.
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.
Lessons Learned from a Church Planter’s Wife
By Jenny Manley | 9Marks Journal: Church Planting | 10.25.2023Here are five lessons I have learned in the decade since I first arrived in an unfamiliar city with my husband, who had the task of planting a new 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.
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.
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