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Eight Requirements for Church Revitalization and Church Planting

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  • Chuck Lawless

Church revitalization and church planting are continuous processes in the church. How do you keep these two going? Here are eight requirements you will have to meet.

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Building a Church Planting Culture in Your Church

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  • Lane Harrison

How do you encourage your church to be involved in church planting? This article shares four ideas you can use to build a church planting culture in your church.

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Church Planting and Church Order

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  • C. A. VanDoodewaard

When should a church be instituted in church planting? This article tackles eleven questions about church planting and institution of the church. 

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The Case for Rural Ministry and Church-Planting

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  • Kyle Borg

Church planting should not only focus on the city and urban areas, because there are tens of millions of people scattered throughout small and rural communities who are not worshipping Jesus Christ. This article explains the obligation, reasons, and vision for rural church planting.

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Ready to Give Answers

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  • David VanBrugge

Apologetics can be a great tool for church planting. From 1 Peter 3:15 this article shows how this is so.

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The Primacy of Preaching in Church Planting

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  • Mark Kelderman

This article explains that without preaching there will be no church planting, because preaching is the heart and soul of any church plant.

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Encouragement for Church Planting from John Calvin

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  • Joel R. Beeke

John Calvin is in many ways seen as the father of Reformed evangelism. This article points to his vision for planting churches in France and Brazil, and his sending out of pastors to plant churches. He is thus an encouraging model for Reformed churches to engage in evangelism and church planting.

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The Case for Church Planting

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  • Maarten Kuivenhoven

From Matthew 28:18-20 this article makes the case for church planting.

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Authentic, Strategic, and Confessional Church Planting

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  • R. Scott Clark

How do you plant a church? Reformed church planting must be authentic, strategic and confessional.

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Reflections of a Church Planter

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  • John V. Fesko

Are you thinking about being a church planter? These are three things that can help you in your consideration of church planting: God's Word, evangelism, and shepherding.

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Spiritual Leadership in Church Planting

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  • Brian de Vries

This article considers what spiritual leadership should look like in a church planting setting. It explains the importance of elders and deacons in such a setting.

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A Model Minister Like Paul, we should Honour a Prayerful Church Planter and Pastor

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  • Stuart Bonnington

Epaphras is an illustration that church planting and church ministry can only be carried out through prayer. For it is through prayer that we express that church growth is God’s work, not ours.

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Acts Speaks Louder Faithful Planting of the Word always Produces Reaping, Somewhere, Sometime

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  • Douglas Milne

What the church needs for church planting and missions, God has provided in the book of Acts. Acts records the progress of the Word, and this article shows how this progress happened and what it means for the church today.

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Jealous for God Paul in Athens Provides a Model for Modern Evangelism

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  • Ian Smith

Possessing jealousy for God and his name will lead to evangelism and church planting. Let this article explain how.

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Eleven Keys to Building Second-Generation Leadership

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  • Joe Miller

The future of church planting is partly rooted in developing leaders. This article argues that one ought to consider eleven aspects in order to develop such a core team of leaders.

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An Evangelistic Dream

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  • Dudley Foord

This article discusses church planting. It presents three models of church planting, namely, that of the mother-daughter church, the home fellowship/Bible study group, and the "apostolic" church planter. It also presents the profile of a church planter.

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Being a Missionary Church God, the Church, and the World

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  • L. E. Leeftink

This article is about being a missionary church. The author discusses God’s relation to the church and the world, the kingship of Christ, the mission task of the church, and church planting.

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Anatomy of a Church Plant

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  • Ross W. Graham

What is the anatomy of a church plant? This article discusses some of the principles from Scripture that are helpful for church planting.

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How to Plant a Presbyterian Church

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  • Ross W. Graham

What is the best way of doing church planting? In this article, the author shares six steps of doing church planting. However, these steps are not a guarantee; church planting remains the work of Christ, who builds His church.

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How to Plant a Reformed Church

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This article on mission work is about how to plant a reformed church (church planting).

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Ten Pioneering Years

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  • John Hall

This article is about a special type of church planting, and the author discusses some difficulties and priviliges of the work in the first ten years.

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Toward a Theology of Movement: Summary

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  • Gary T. Waldecker

This article shows how church planting movements are rooted in understanding God's movement from glory to greater glory of the coming kingdom. The author identifies seven aspects of God's movement from glory to greater glory, and discusses how each shapes an understanding of church planting and how each may address needs in different cultures and contexts.

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The Recipe for Church Planting from the Book of Acts

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  • Daniel R. Hyde

This article looks at church planting as the work of the Holy Spirit, as well as the place, means, and method of church planting, with its cue taken from the book of Acts.

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The Bible and Church Planting: Presbyterian Structure Proposition: We Should Start New Churches with a Fully Presbyterian Structure

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  • Ross W. Graham

This article is about the importance of the Presbyterian structure when planting a new church. The importance of elders and the bond of churches (denomination) in church planting is discussed.

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The Bible and Church Planting Proposition: We Should Provide Regular Supervision and Support for the Young Churches we have Started

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  • Ross W. Graham

This article is about support and supervision necessary with church planting.

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John Calvin the Evangelist

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  • Frank James

This is about John Calvin's heart for missions and his work in church planting.

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The Usual Steps in OPC Church Planting

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  • John S. Shaw

This article looks at some of the steps the Orthodox Presbyterian Church usually take when starting a church planting.

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The Mother-Daughter Model

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  • Benjamin W. Miller

This article looks at the advantages and disadvantages of the mother-daughter model of church planting.

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Postmodern Apologetics & Evangelism

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  • David Robertson

This article is about postmodernism and the message the church has in this time. The author discusses reality, radicalism and relationships, and also the challenges postmodernism poses to the church, church planting and evangelism.

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On Being a Church Planter

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  • Daniel R. Hyde

This article is about church planting, and specifically about the person of the church planter.

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