We just witnessed the birth of a new church. Yes, it did cost us friends that we won’t see as often, numbers in our membership, money in the offering and valuable leaders. But all of those are replaceable and their loss cannot compare to the joy of watching the birth of a healthy new congregation.
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One of my friends just returned from spying out the land in a major American city. He went there to check the possibilities of becoming pastor of a small congregation in hopes of turning it into a bigger church and a major church planting center.
A Problem
One piece of information that he picked up gave him [...]

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Two days ago I was party to one of the best discussions I’ve ever experienced. Jack Hayford, our denomination’s new president, brought together about 120 leaders. His goal was to get us all working out of the same code book.
Part of our work together involved “Task Teams” where we met in groups of three, then [...]

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I just returned from Mongolia, a country of just over 3,000,000 people. It is a developing nation where the average wage hovers near $100 per month in U.S. dollars. It was there that I witnessed a wonderfully simple and hugely successful church planting operation. Best of all, it costs little money.
A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO EDUCATION
This [...]

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