The fields of corn and beans are ready to be harvested. Farmers will be harvesting their crops to feed people all over the world. Just as people will need to be fed from the harvesting of crops to keep them from dying physically, there is another demand to feed them the Word of God to keep them from dying spiritually.Baptist Church Planting Ministry takes up a “Reaping the Harvest Offering” each fall to help plant churches in needy areas of the world to bring them the salvation message of…
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Do We Need to Reproduce Churches in America?
Read this important article about church planting in America. This article is also featured at…
Effective Team Church Planting
Read this article from Rev. Jeremy Rowland about Effective Churc…
Top 10 Church Planting Questions
Read these ten questions about church planting as asked by Mark Irmler.
Where Should a New Church Be Planted
Finding the right location to start a church is extremely important. Assuming that God has led you to start a church, and assuming that your pastor has given you his blessing, you must determine God’s place to start this new church.
What factors are involved in locating the “right” place and what constitutes a needy city? Every city in the world is in spiritual need, but some cities have a greater need than others. How should we define a needy city? Paul’s goal was to preach the gos…
How to Handle Church Members Coming from Other Baptist Churches
One of the greatest problems a new church planter faces will be the answer to this question. “What do I do when someone comes to our church from another good Baptist church?” Every pastor eventually faces this dilemma, and how he handles this can either make or break a ministry.
The other side of this dilemma is, “What do I do when someone leaves our church for another good Baptist church?” When an individual or family makes this decision, it involves two pastors and two ministries. It…
Training Your Leaders
Why are some churches warm and friendly while others are cold and uninviting? Members of churches must be trained to be friendly, kind and considerate. Of course the character of a church often very closely follows the behavior of the pastor and his wife. If the pastor is exemplifies a friendly attitude, others will learn by observing him. Though the pastor’s example is vital, I am convinced that people still need to be taught how to be friendly.
Periodically our church practices greeting…
The Value of Godly Counsel
I speak in many churches each year and get bulletins and newsletters from other churches in which I do not speak. Many times these churches list the ministries of the church in the bulletins for the church congregation and others to see. This is a good idea so that members can see ministries in which they can be involved. Some of these ministries include: soul-winning, nursery, music, deaf, tape, youth, bus, and various other ministries that are too numerous to mention here.
One ministry…
Dealing with Gossip
“Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others. It forms one of the oldest and most common means of sharing (unproven) facts and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information transmitted. The term also carries implications that the news so transmitted (usually) has a personal or trivial nature, as opposed to normal conversation.”–Wikipedia
Slander” is a word that has an interesting…
A Church Planting Timeline
I have divided the preparatory time for planting a church into six time periods. These categories describe the planning and preparation schedule for starting a new church. The three biggest failures of church planting are: a lack of preparation, a lack of hard work, and a failure to connect with people.
Two years before the first service:
1. Locate a place to start the new church
2. Develop relationships with pastors and potential supporters
3. Prepare a plan and time line for the new churc…
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