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Evangelicals love church planting -and rightly so!

The world needs more churches because more people need to believe and live out the gospel. That's why billions of dollars, scores of conferences, and countless books have pushed church planting over the last decades. More than that, many churches have been planted through this emphasis. However, confusion persists around the what's, when's, who's, and how's of church planting resulting in unhealthy church plants. This issue of Church Matters clarifies how biblical ecclesiology dispels confusion and produces healthy church plants both domestically and around the world.

Preparing to Church Plant

• The Priority of Patience, Prayer, and Preaching in Church Planting by Josh Manley
• Why Not to Plant Churches by Phil Newton
• Preparing to Plant Is a Whole Church Effort by Dwayne Milioni
• You Can’t Plant a Church If You Don’t Know What a Church Is by Nathan Knight
• Partnering Together to Plant by Nathan Akin
• Pastor, Not Entrepreneur by Nathan Knight
• Pastor, Not Entrepreneur, Part 2 by Matt McCullough
• Five Trends in Church Planting by Phil Newton and Matt Rogers
• What 9Marks Purists Should Know About Church Planting by Ed Stetzer

Sending Out a Church Plant

• Taking Risks in Church Planting by Sending Your Best Members and Elders by Juan Sanchez
• Should I Stay or Should I Go? Advice for Members on Church Plants by John Joseph
• Sending Out Future Leaders Strategically by Matt Rogers
• Equipping Women for Church Planting by Sharon Dickens
• Shepherding the Heart in Sending by Dave Kiehn

Planting a Church

• Stop Launching Churches, Covenant Together Instead by Nathan Knight
• Personal Evangelism for the Church Planter and the Church Plant by J. Mack Stiles
• Planting Churches for Pleasure, Not for Profit by Nathan Knight
• Four Encouragements for Preaching in a Church Planting Context by Clint Darst
• Church Planting Is Rarely Rapid by Matthew Spandler-Davison
• The Church Planter’s Second Priority: Raising Up Leaders by Mike McKinley
• How to Do Ministry When You Have No Money by Brian Davis
• Church Planting Across Ethnic Lines by Joel Kurz
• International Churches as Strategic Gospel Multipliers by Caleb Greggson
• Revitalization with an Eye Toward Church Planting by Matt Capps
• Church Planters, Don’t Wait to Put Your Documents in Place! by Joel Kurz
• Church Planters, Make Sure Your People Know You Love Them by Steve Jennings
• Church Planting in the Same Building by Matthew Spandler-Davison
• Church Planting by Peaceable Division by Colin Clark

Church Planting in Hindsight

• Church Planting Roundtable: Counting the Cost by Forrest, Joseph, San, Chatman, Greggson, and Ross
• The Blessings and Burdens of a Church Planter’s Wife by Gloria Furman
• Lessons Learned from a Church Planter’s Wife by Jenny Manley
• Why Bad Polity Hurt My Church Plant by Phil Newton
• Knowing When to Say When: Reflections from a Failed Church Plant by Derek Bass