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• Monday is for Missiology: Hiebert on Mission and the Kingdom of God September 6, 2010
  I'm working on a new book on the Kingdom of God (out in 2011) and it's implications for living between the times in the "already" but "not yet." I ran across this from Paul Hiebert. Paul recently died and the church experienced a great loss. David Hesselgrave and I dedicated our new mission book, MissionShift, to Paul and Ralph […]
• Ed Stetzer on the Rise of Popularity in Church Planting September 5, 2010
  At the recent Advance the Church Conference in Raleigh, NC, I sat down with Ed Stetzer (Missiologist Extraordinaire) to talk about a number of topics. In part one of this conversation, we talk about his concerns and excitement about the recent rise in popularity of church planting. As always, Ed has good things to say. […]
• Meet a Church Planter | Joe Holland September 4, 2010
  Joe Holland | Lead pastor of Christ Covenant | Culpeper, VA Call to Plant I spent the first 6 years of ministry as an assistant in two different churches in Mississippi. Toward the end of those six years I started to get the church planting bug. I was being exposed to Acts29 resources—especially the preaching of Mark Driscoll. I was also attending the annual […]
• Church Planting in the 21st Century September 3, 2010
  by Alex EarlyFour Corner's Church Newnan, GA Church planting in the 21st Century is a bold task. Being a gospel-centered, innovative church planter implies that you are going to have to have some entrepreneurial aptitude. When I think of the terms “entrepreneurial aptitude” I don’t ever think of boring, vapid, mundane or lackadaisical people. Entreprene […]
• 5 Game Changers that didnt make my video for The Nines September 2, 2010
  On Sep 9 you can watch my video and ridicule it via Twitter at the Nines Online Conference. I chose just a single "game changer" in my ministry to focus on . . which one I will not reveal just yet. But there were many other game changers, strategic moves, decisions, mid-way corrections, that didn't make the cut. Here are some of them:1. In 199 […]
• Substance or Just Good Management? September 2, 2010
  By Brent Rood The emerging church movement is not as new as it used to be. As with every movement, it has reached a point in its trajectory where as it matures, the ideals of the movement have given way to the reality of the movement. Theory birthed practice. The ideal was that good substance should replace good management. Gospel-centered preaching, authent […]
• Thursday Is for Thinkers: Jack Lumanog, Transformational Small Churches, & Bivo Ministry September 2, 2010
  Thanks to Dan Cruver for his post last week on Small Churches and Adoption. Next week, Artie Davis from Cornerstone Community Church (Orangeburg, SC) and the Comb Network. Today's post comes from Jack Lumanog, as a part of our series focusing on Transformational Small Churches. Jack is pastor of Christ the King Anglican Church in Lansing, MI. He serves […]
• Kevin Ezell Nominated as President of North American Mission Board: A Great Leader with a Heart for and Track Record in Church Planting September 1, 2010
  There has been some exciting news and discussion in my denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. It was released yesterday that Kevin Ezell has been nominated as the next president of the North American Mission Board for the SBC. I usually post my SBC commentary at our SEBTS blog, Between the Times since I know that many of my readers are not SBC. But, […]
• A Disturbing Statistic September 1, 2010
  Here's a stat to choke down: There have been thousands of new churches started in the last 20 years, and a decent amount are growing rapidly. And yet ... the number of people going to church in America has decreased by about 8 million in that time.Riddle me this: How can that be?Answer: New churches tend (almost exclusively) to reach people who are alre […]
• 10 Campus Constants at West Ridge Church September 1, 2010
  We’re 11 days away from launching our second campus of West Ridge Church. Our desire to is start four more campuses over the next four years. With that in mind, we wanted to develop a framework to define the constants all of these campuses would share. Indirectly, that also helps clarify where each of the campuses also has freedom. That led our leadership te […]