God’s Planned Obsolescence

MY WIFE AND I, WITH FIVE OTHER COUPLES, planted a church in 2002. In the weeks before we began, two friends took me aside separately to admonish us. “Don’t we already have enough churches in Spokane? Do we really need more?”  There are at least two reasons why...

Great Book on Church Planting

Just finished Darrin Patrick’s book, Church Planter: The Man, the Message, the Mission. In three sections this book discusses the man who plants, his message,and his mission. The book is a general exhortation. If you are looking for specifics on how to church...

American Church In Crisis?

It is not uncommon to hear people complain at the news of a church plant. “We don’t need new churches,” they say. But David T. Olson argues the opposite. In his book The American Church in Crisis: Groundbreaking Research Based on a National Database...