


Why is it Church Planters Rarely Plant a Church
I realize this is a touchy topic. It is difficult to address. Statistics on overall attrition cover some of this, but many missionaries who remain within a mission agency do not finish their primary mission. Of course the question “What does it mean to finish?” can...
Cell Phones, Facebook, Computers and Completing the Great Commission
Anyone who reads the biographies of Hudson Taylor, David Brainard, CT Studd, and others from long ago will, of course, notice a total absence of any of the technologies we take for granted. The world they lived in is difficult to imagine today: the quietness, the...
Why Focus on Pioneer Church Planting
The short answer is… because healthy New Testament churches do not organically ‘spring up’ among new converts on their own. In the middle of Paul’s grand declaration in Eph 2:11-3:16, as he speaks of this new entity called ‘the church’, he states how the...