Charles Spurgeon

When You Become Your Church: The Identity Crisis Every Planter Must Face

Leadership /

“Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not.” – Jeremiah 45:5 There’s a subtle disease that infects church planters somewhere between the first core team meeting and the fifth year of ministry. It’s not burnout, though it often leads there. It’s not heresy, though it distorts our theology. It’s an identity crisis so complete […]

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From Seating Capacity to Sending Capacity: Why Real Church Growth Requires Death

Church Planting /

Here’s a statistic that should stop every pastor and church leader in their tracks: Of the only 20% of churches that are growing today, 95% of that “growth” is not actual growth at all—it’s shuffling Christians around into new groups. Only 1% of what we call “church growth” represents reaching lost people. Let that sink

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