Ed Stetzer writes and speaks on theology, missiology, church planting, church revitalization, and church innovation.
Read Part One, The Launch, and Part Two, From Nominal to Secular. In the past few weeks, I have talked about some recent church-planting shifts that I have noticed, both through the lens of research and some though …
[Read more...] about Church Planting Shifts, Part 3: Preparing Our People for Witness
In Part One of our series on subtle, yet important church-planting shifts, we dealt with the changing face of the church launch. As I mentioned, this includes a downscaling of the traditional launch mode to build up more core …
[Read more...] about Church Planting Shifts, Part 2: From Nominal to Secular
Church planting is somewhat of an entrepreneurial enterprise that tends to be on the front end of change, both catalyzing change and being catalyzed by change. This is the crux of what I want to discuss in this four-part …
[Read more...] about Church Planting Shifts, Part 1: The Launch
This a longer post than normal, but I felt it better to post singly rather than break it up into a series.Evangelistic fervor—the core of evangelicalism—ebbs and flows in the West. We—the church of the West—receive no exception …
We’ve all heard the old adage about the revolving church door. People come in and, before we know what happened, they leave, never to return. But what if this didn’t have to be the case? How do we treat those visiting or …
Leading a church into revitalization is a daunting task. It takes much prayer, grace, and strength. Churches that need revitalization have often drifted into a place of complacency. The change they need often comes about because …
[Read more...] about Five Things that Keep Churches from Changing
People have a tendency to get willfully locked into their way of doing ministry. In so doing, we end up loving the particular way that we do church more than the particular people our church has been called to reach. I've …
[Read more...] about Engaging an Ever-Changing Culture With a Never-Changing Gospel
