5 Reason for Church Planting
Someone may say, “Don’t we have plenty of churches already? Why church planting?” Here are five reasons we believe in planting a church right here and right now.
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Someone may say, “Don’t we have plenty of churches already? Why church planting?” Here are five reasons we believe in planting a church right here and right now.
Praying for the country of the rising sun to become one day known as the country of the Risen Son!
We cannot miss this as a church in the business of all the ministry activities we do. The risen Christ implied the need for the mission to all nations.
What is Southern Baptist anyway? Why are you Southern Baptist? Here are 6 reasons why I am still a Southern Baptist.
We must get serious about reaching people who are far from God. There is a battle going on out there, and the church is losing ground.
Is your church or ministry struggling to reach the next generation?
Baptism is a wonderful and easy way to remember the outline for a powerful new life that Christ has for us. How are we supposed to live for Christ day by day? How can we break sin habits? How can we put the past behind us and live a new life?
So, for the church NOT to disappear, what should we do? That is the fundamental question that daunts us on a day to day basis.
Japan is known by many to be a difficult mission field. Japan has now been known as “the missionary’s graveyard.”
If a church’s strategy is not grounded in making disciples, the church has abandoned the mission Christ has given.
We are in the Great Commission by living empowered by the Great Commandment love.
“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.”—Samuel Zwemer
Discipleship is more about transformation than information. For dumping information doesn’t produce transformation.
If my church ceased to exist today, would the community be impacted by its lack of presence for we loved our neighbors so well?
One day our life will flash before our eyes, let’s make sure it’s worth watching.
“Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.” ― David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
This has changed my life and I hope with my whole heart that it will change yours.
Their whole mission was nearly useless if they didn’t spread it and multiply it.
The leaders of the first century church did NOT ask each other, “how many came to church last week?” That’s not how God measures success.
Does your church have an intentional development plan to disciple and deploy believers to live out the Great Commission?
Gospel; it is important for us to understand the beauty and the glory of the gospel. In the evangelism training we so often jump into the “How.” We get people with basic training and all that is good stuff, however if we don’t have the “Why” we lose the meaning of “How”. If you have a “How” and not the “why” then there is no movement. We are all on mission to fulfill the Great Commission.
In this fallen world even people in a very complex, postmodern world are desperately hungry to hear the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to step it up. We need to toughen up and take this job seriously. We need to be ready to suffer for the gospel. We need to be motivated by this stewardship that we have been entrusted. We are to run this race well.
We believe everything rises and falls on culture and culture rises and falls on the leader. So as christians leaders in our culture the fundamental question we must ask is, “Am I really leading?”
We see a huge collision in Evangelism vs. Missions distinction all together. This is crucial for our churches to understand in order to advance the kingdom ministry through mission work.