"Many of them just copy a letter from Rick Warren's book and send it out" was the summary sentence one pastor gave me when asked about church starts in his metropolitan area. Yes, he did mention some exceptions that are thriving. Those words set me to reflecting. Last Sunday in our Sun...

If a church starts with over 5000 people, is it a church plant?  I’m sure this is dabbling in semantics and wordplay, but I do see a difference between planting a church with a core team of about ten or twenty people and starting a church that runs an attendance of 1000+ the first day.  The ...

The past week has been really crazy, but it began and ended with great stories. The stress of the continued academic process was buoyed by these stories. I had the opportunity to speak in a church in central Texas in early August. I was told there were several families there who had never been to th...