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Don’t miss Accelerate on September 10-11, which is a two-day workshop for any denominational, associational or network leader to understand…
Maintaining Church Plant Health: A Case for Assessing Plants After Planting Jason Phillips Although church planting has been around since…
Chicago is the third largest city in the United States with an MSA that includes 9.5 million people. Although the…
For the last few decades, the predominant missional narrative in North America has sounded something like this, “people in North…
APEST and Church Planting BRAD BRISCO Over the past several years I have become convinced of the importance of incorporating…
“Until I saw you, I didn’t know there was a place for me here.” I had just finished hosting our…
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Ecosystems of the Kingdom In scripture, Paul used the imagery of a body to illustrate how believers should be unified…
Why We Need a Church Planting Manifesto By Jeff Christopherson We make statements every day. Most are quite unassuming—small facts…
Communicating Across the Racial Divide Dying to Self In recent years, we have seen the emergence of Black Lives Matter, a group fighting for issues that concern blacks. In response, some whites began to push the ideas of All Lives Matter to emphasize a colorblind approach to racial…
A historic opportunity is in front of us. I believe we are currently in a significant moment of time that will be defining for the future of the church. Moments like these happen every several generations, and I believe that right now we are in such a time…
National tragedy has struck again. The fact that you can read that sentence and not know the exact tragedy to which I’m referring is telling. We live in a broken world wrecked by pain and spirally downward at a dizzying speed – this is an undeniable reality. The…
Missionary Identity The reality is, Christians are interlopers. We are strangers and foreigners. As Christians, I believe we should always be more driven by our missionary identity than we are by our national identity, our political identity, our environmental identity, our social identity, or even our church identity.…
The myth of a Christian culture continues to set the mind of the Western church at ease. This myth assumes that the West is, or once was, a Christian culture. If the culture is Christian, there is no need to analyze its assumptions or develop a counter-cultural instinct. ~…
Bill Bright (1921–2003) founded Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) on the UCLA campus in 1951 with the primary goal of reaching university student leaders by proclaiming the message of salvation. Over the course of the past six decades, the movement has grown from a small band of staff…