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Fifteen years of experience and some research has convinced me that effective coaching is a key ingredient in any church planting movement.

One of the best resources for coaches is Simply Coaching by Tom Wymore. I met Tom at the Church Multiplication training with Ralph Moore in Hawaii. He’s a great guy and a good coach.

The [...]

What does the future of the Anglican church look like?
According to this report it’s black. Very black.
While the English Anglicans have been closing churches at a frightening rate, the Nigerians have been planting them.
At a recent meeting let by Archbishop Peter Akinola, they created 18 new dioceses and elected 20 new bishops to serve in [...]

Picture © Allan McKinnon

For much of the twentieth century most social scientists have been blind to the reality of the incredible expansion of evangelical/Pentecostal Christianity. They have also ignored the social transformation that has accompanied that expansion.

Bernice Martin in The Pentecostal Gender Paradox explains. . .

When the existence of this vast global mass movement did [...]

Christ Church Adlington was build between in the 1830s for a cost of £1,560. It was one of the first major churches in the area.

In 1975 Christ Church held it’s last service and closed down. In 1981 the building was sold and became the Sharju Indian restaurant. I understand the food is good.

Christ Church Adlington [...]

Alan HirschEmerging church

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
TertullianOpen Doors has announced the 2008 top 10 worst places to live as a Christian
They are, in order of infamy:

1. North Korea
2. Saudi Arabia
3. Iran
4. Maldives
5. Bhutan
6. Yemen
7. Afghanistan
8. Laos
9. Uzbekistan
10. China

The annual country persecution list ranked North Korea in the No 1 spot for [...]

Philip Jenkins of Next Christendom fame has a new book coming next October.

Here’s a preview. . .
The Lost History of Christianity will change how we understand Christian and world history. Philip Jenkins reveals a vast Christian world to the east of the Roman Empire and how the earliest, most influential churches of the East—those that [...]

Mark Driscoll was just 19 years old when God spoke to him and told him and said, “Marry Grace (his girlfriend), preach the Bible, train men and plant a church that plants other churches.

At that time he had only been a Christian for two years. He had never been a pastor, never preached before, never [...]

If you’re an Acts29 church planter and things aren’t going well, you don’t want to get on the wrong side of Mark Driscoll. . .

Or do you?
Jonathan MacIntosh was one of those young, confident, immature pastors. As a new church planter in 2004, he showed up for an Acts29 boot camp looking for guidance and [...]