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January 27, 2012

Beware of Arranged Marriages

by Tom Nebel

In real life, arranged marriages can work well. In church planting, not so well. Here’s what I mean. We have neighbors who are from India, and they’re in an arranged marriage which is doing quite well. The story is interesting. He was born in America, so he’s a natural US citizen. When he was getting [...]

January 25, 2012

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Top 10 Church Planting Mistakes

by Stephen Gray

Church Planting is tough and always carries a potential of risk and catastrophic failure. So what are the top ten mistakes made by leaders as they plant new churches? These are the mistakes I have seen repeated time after time with the church planters I have trained and coached.

January 23, 2012

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Practicing Gospel Community in Your Family

by Scott Thomas

The most common metaphor for Christian community is “family” and “household” (Rom. 12:10; Gal. 6:10; Eph. 2:19; 1 Peter 4:17). It dawned on me that we rarely apply this to one’s marriage and family. I curiously wondered why we fail to act in families as a community of Christians when it seems so obvious that [...]

January 21, 2012

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The Good Fight of Faith

by Rice Broocks

It was one of those unusual moments in ministry. I received a phone call inviting me to come conduct Bible studies for a Filipino fighter named Manny Pacquiao. He was scheduled to fight Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas last November at the MGM Grand Hotel. Pasquiao is an 8-time world champion as well as a Congressman [...]

January 20, 2012

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Small Beginnings, Big Opportunities

by Ralph Moore

After a very slow start a Japanese language church plant is doing big things. We launched our entire Japanese language department as a church plant a few years ago. They languished until the pastor moved the congregation into a large house. Then they popped. In one year they launched three house churches in Honolulu. Three [...]

January 19, 2012

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The Church Planting Super Site Is Here!

by Phil Spry

A new tool is now available to church planters. Go to www.churchplantingsupersite.com and see for yourself. When I began planting churches in the early 1970s I never saw a book on the subject. I have since discovered that there were some but without the internet they were impossible to find. The CPSS mission statement is [...]

January 17, 2012

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Is Your Church Plant Making A Difference?

by Marcus Bigelow

Douglas Hubbard has written How to Measure Anything, Finding the Values of Intangibles in Business. While primarily written about business intangibles, I believe it has application to church planting as well. Traditionally we have measured the “Killer B’s” (buildings, butts and bucks). While those may be easiest, they may not be the most important measures. [...]

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