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September 19th, 2010 - 6:52 pm § in Church Planter Spouse, Church Planters Personal Life, Church Planting, Greatest Mistakes, Practice, Steve's Posts, Uncategorized

Mistake #7: Not Understanding Product Living VS Process Living

“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.” 2 Corinthians 11:30 (ESV) This is the seventh in a series of blog posts called, “My Top Ten Mistakes in Ministry (That I Can Share Publicly.)” After many years of ministry experience as a church planter, pastor and seminary[...]

July 18th, 2010 - 10:19 am § in Church Planter Spouse, Church Planters Personal Life, Church Planting, Greatest Mistakes, Networks, Practice, Theology

Calvin Rejects Privatized Faith and Promotes Vulnerability in Church Planting Networks :)

“In the church, as Calvin conceived it, every man helped every other man. If in Christ Jesus all believers are united, then a private believer is a contradiction in terms. Not only are the blessings and the virtues given for the common good, but the faults and the weaknesses concern the other memb[...]

September 13th, 2009 - 8:39 pm § in Church Planter Spouse, Church Planting

Research Findings on Church Planting Wives: 6 Primary Sources, 8 Secondary Sources

The following factors provided the greatest sources of satisfaction or stress for church planting wives. These findings are taken from a research study conducted in North American among PCA church planting spouses of various ethnicities in both urban and suburban settings. This research was conduct[...]

August 22nd, 2009 - 10:00 pm § in Church Planter Spouse, Greatest Mistakes

Planter Spouse Looks Back: What I Wish I’d Known About Church Planting! by Shari Thomas*

Given at the Global Church Advancement North America Conference I wish someone would have told us (Shari and her husband, John), that we both would need a support system greater than just each other… …that we would need coaches and mentors, and we should plan at more than one stage in the jo[...]