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Embracing the City: A Brief Survey of Southern Baptists and North American Urban Missions

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Ethical Guidelines for Church Planters: A Suggested Proposal

It is rare to hear the words “church planting” and “ethics” used in the same sentence. In fact, over the past decade, I cannot recall a single conversation with church planters when I heard anyone mention ethics when discussing such missionary activity. This lack of discussion does not imply church planters are a group of intentionally unprincipled barbarians roaming to and fro throughout the earth, seeking people whom they can devour. The hundreds of church planters I have encountered over the years love God and love others, and manifest godly lifestyles.
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G.O.I.N.G. U.R.B.A.N. for the 21st Century Missionary

Following the first three hundred years of the Church’s existence, missionaries did a fairly good job at penetrating the rural communities, villages, small towns, and tribes scattered across the globe. However, the large urban environments have typically posed significant challenges to the missional task of the Church. Now that the 21st century world is an urban majority world, what are some of the things missionaries need to keep in mind as they “go urban”.
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NEW REPORT: American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population

Here is the Kosmin and Keysar (with Cragun and Navarro-Rivera) report from Trinity College based on the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey. Released 9/22/2009.
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2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey

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42,000+ Southern Baptist Churches: Do We Really Need Another One?

There has been much talk recently in our convention regarding church planting. The International Mission Board is talking about it. The North American Mission Board is talking about it. Our seven Southern Baptist Seminaries offer courses in church planting and have professors of church planting. Our state conventions are talking about it. Our associations are talking about it.

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A Birmingham Billboard and a 3AM thought on evangelism

Like many others, this summer my family and I vacationed in Florida. This year
we planned on driving the thirteen-hour trip from our home in Louisville, Kentucky to St.
George Island. Since we have two girls (ages one and three), and wanted to avoid the
“How much longer?” mantra every five miles, we decided to drive through the night.
The late drive would also provide less traffic and allow a nice time for me to relax, think,
and pray.

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A Brief Biography and Missiology of Robert E. Logan

In the realm of church planting in general and North American church planting in particular, no name stands above the name Bob Logan. Despite Logan’s popularity, virtually no publications exist describing his person or his missiology. The purpose of this article is to accomplish that which is lacking in church growth studies today: the production of a biographical sketch and a brief missiology of Robert E. Logan.

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A Case Study: Baptist Associational Church Planting

Here is a paper I received from Terry Leap. Terry is a pastor and Ph.D. student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He wrote this paper for a class I taught at the seminary.

This work is an excellent original case study showing the significance of Associational leadership in relation to church planting.
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A Model of Leadership for Rural Church Planting

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