Ministering in Transient Populations
What do young professionals, singles, college students, church hoppers, and the mobile poor all have in common? Transiency! Transient, by Webster’s definition, means “passing through or by a place with...
View ArticleWho Are My Sheep?
You’ve seen them. They attend your church “frequently.” But frequently, as they measure it, is once every 6–10 weeks, some every 6 months, others are content with just Christmas and Easter. And if you...
View ArticleCourage Is Not Winning. It’s Sacrifice
Do you always have to win? With your employees or employer? With your kids or your spouse? Do you always feel it necessary to win because you can, and if you don’t, then you wouldn’t be showing...
View ArticlePanel Session: Planters in the trenches
Pastor Blake Wilson moderates a panel of speakers in reference to planting churches in the urban context. Panelists are: Dr. Eric Mason Dr. Carl Ellis Pastor Blake Wilson Pastor Jerome Gay Pastor Doug...
View ArticlePractice What You Tweet
In a world of Facebook status updates and 140-character one-liners, it’s easy for us to drift further and further into an electronic personality and identity void of authenticity. Our Facebook and...
View ArticleTop 10 Things I Learned In Church Planting
1. You’re a Limited Leader (Exodus 18:18) People will want you to be the omni-gifted leader and you’ll be tempted to believe it. It’s important to know who you are and who you are not. The only thing...
View ArticleLeading at 30,000 Feet
Three days ago I was sitting on a plane waiting to take off. We were heading home, back to Atlanta, and I was ecstatic. I’d gotten the exit row, the one right by the entrance door, so there was lots of...
View ArticleStranded
One of the greatest challenges of being an African-American pastor planting a Reformed, missional church in Camden, NJ is the conflict with the traditional African-American churches already located in...
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