Articles for tag: Planter Care

April 4, 2016

Christian Standard

We”ve Become Leaders in Church Planting

By Justin Horey Innovation is at the heart of new church planting. Spend any amount of time talking to the leaders of the church planting ministries in the Restoration Movement, and it quickly becomes clear this is a group that prizes newness: new places, new churches, new believers, new ideas, and new strategies. It”s not easy to say when this attitude began to take hold””perhaps in the 1980s or 1990s. Today new Christian churches are often established by organizations that profess to “do things no one else does.” Lance Hurley, executive director of Ignite Church Planting in Chicago, recalls how

November 5, 2006

Christian Standard

Birthing Churches

By Greg Marksberry An elder offered his enthusiastic but green minister this sage advice, “Shepherds don”t produce sheep; sheep do.” This wise leader understood that greater ministry is accomplished not by trying to do all the work by ourselves, but by mobilizing others in the effort. D.L. Moody phrased it this way, “I would rather put ten men to work than do the work of ten men.” Just as sheep produce sheep, churches birth churches. Church-growth analysts often cite church planting as the most effective means of evangelism. It stands to reason that more churches focused on reaching more people

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