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Christ comes first. He than commands us into His mission. The byproduct of our mission is His kingdom spread on earth via the building of His church. As much as I value church planting, I have come to realize that we should stop planting churches. We should plant Jesus, and let Jesus build His church.

John and Jane wanted to get married in Berlin, where I am planting numbers of churches. Georgia, my wife, had told them at a party that I perform wonderful wedding ceremonies. So they approached me and asked if I would marry them. I heard the Spirit of God speak clearly to me – “Allow them [...]

I attended my cousin’s funeral last week. We’d been best friends as kids, but our lives had taken different paths and we’d lost contact. Her husband had died, her son had died and only one daughter (I’ll call her Mary) is still living. I’d spoken with my cousin in January and knew she was ill, [...]

Church planters:  here’s something we learned in Converge Church Planting, and many of us learned it the hard way.  A few years back we did research relative to the women of our church planting couples.  A similar and disturbing pattern emerged, and I give this to you as an encouragement to fight back. In our [...]

Presently it is cool to bash the church. I get it. Things go in cycles. We just lived through a fifty-year period from the end of World War 2 to the 1990’s in which church was an acceptable cultural norm by the vast majority of people. But now cynicism about the church is all the [...]

A church plant is a lot like a boulder on a barren mountainside. You’ve seen this same rock in many adventure movies. Perhaps you’ve seen two nondescript cowboys desperately prying it loose, and then watching it fall. It quickly picks up speed, knocking other smaller rocks loose. Rocks smash against other rocks, breaking them from [...]

I’m glad I was influenced by several evangelists early on in my Christian life. These people did something profound – they modeled the normal Christian life as they saw it. To them sharing Christ all the time was natural, doable and attainable. Evangelism flowed from them. As a new Believer I didn’t know any better than [...]