What does For The City promise? Darrin Patrick and Matt Carter have planted churches in the heart of two US cities. In 180 pages they seek to ‘shed light on what a healthy church looks like, [and] share from our experiences as church planters how to pursue the goal of healthy, God-honoring churches in cities …

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David Jones is a pastor, church-planter and currently moderator-general of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Here’s the video of a recent talk he gave about church planting/growth in Adelaide. The audio is not perfect, but it is listenable. Don’t mind the brief ad at the beginning. Many thanks to Damien and the team at Para …

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I was interested to read about the Gospel In The City event Redeemer Presbyterian (New York, USA) recently hosted. However this paragraph stood out. On August 1, Redeemer City to City hosted an all-day Gospel in the City training event for 23 pastors and church planters. They gathered for an intense day of discussion of Redeemer’s “DNA” …

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Mikey Lynch commences online ruminations about his recent trip to the US. In this post he deals with a largely ignored, but substantial, dynamic in church planting: transfer growth. We never say it is. The books rarely talk about it explicitly, the hero-story of church planters is always ‘We arrived, just the two of us, …

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