As I reviewed Church planting issues articles, I find this mentioned often. The key issue here is that your church plant has leaders that are spiritual, Bible oriented and guided (working by Scripture principles), and mature. Unfortunately, this just begs the whole question of a church plant. We can easily take the leaders from some well-established church and transplant them, and we have a ready-made “church plant in a can”. Unfortunately, this sidesteps the whole question of church planting, which is to reproduce ourselves on 2 levels: 1) reproduce believers or evangelism, and 2) reproduce churches, which is church planting.
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Cults and False Religions
Cults, sects, and false religions. is a book type article on identifying cults and false religions and abusive “good” churches to stay away from.
Pastor’s Wives Ministry
Pastor’s Wives Ministry is a hard look at those few individuals who believe that they can be a pastor without a wife.
How to Stop a Church from Closing Down
How to Stop a Church from Closing Down is a post from a church planter (Pastor David Cox) about stopping a church from closing down and terminating its services.
Why People attend Church?
Why People attend Church?
By David Cox
In this article on Why People attend Church? I examine some polls and biblical principles on what is and what should be drawing people to our churches. We need to examine what is inside peope’s heads, and what we (pastors and church leadership) can do to try to change people’s ideas and actual practices.