Convergence of Vocation: A Covocational Primer for Church Planting Networks The Send Institute recently commissioned a study through LifeWay Research…
Leading means reading. This applies even more to movement leaders who are leaders among leaders. I highly recommend church planting leaders keep a balance of reading between theology, sociology, organizational theory, learning theory, and even science and technological trends. But in case you don't have time to read as broadly as you’d like and need
What Shape is Your Network? Network leaders may sometimes ask themselves what shape is their network in, but they probably rarely ask what shape…
On July 23, the Send Institute convened a gathering of 17 thought leaders and heads of some of North America’s large and influential church…
The Send Institute will be releasing a full report on Best Practices in Church Planting Systems With Particular Attention to Church Planting Churches. In this report, we will share best practices in church planting systems as well as the organizational shifts necessary to see denominations and networks move beyond addition into multiplication. As a preview
Fifty years ago, today, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel. Like anyone of our heroes, King wasn’t perfect.…
A brief survey of missiological literature and some of the issues being raised today creates curiosity about the possible futures of Christianity in the…
Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than…
Today in ministry leadership, many have adopted this phrase used in business and organizational psychology: pipeline. The concept is simple. A pipeline is an…
Whether it’s called multiplying, parenting, sending, sponsoring, or partnering–churches that plant churches and even networks of churches are becoming the new normal conversation in…