“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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Network’
May 24th, 2010 - 10:21 am § in Africa, Church Planting
Prayers For GCA 2010 West Africa CPI: Part 1
Editor’s Note: We’ve already shared that GCA President Steve Childers is currently in West Africa, leading a group of indigenous church leaders in the GCA 2010 West Africa Church Planting Institute. Some supporters have known about this for awhile and have been kind enough to commit th[...]
February 5th, 2010 - 6:48 pm § in On the Web
A Gospel-Planted Life Blog Reviews GCA Conference
The folks over at A Gospel-Planted Life were kind enough to share their experience at last week’s North American Church Planting Conference. You should check it out! [A Gospel-Planted Life][...]
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[...]
July 19th, 2009 - 1:43 pm § in Uncategorized
Five Things New Planters Should Know by Jonathan Dodson
It’s been well said, “Undoubtedly the first years of church planting are hardest and most volatile for the church planter – which is why so many churches never make it past their childhood, as the planter implodes under the pressure brought on from lack of resources, exhaustion and lonelin[...]