Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
Thoughts on the Rise and Fall of Pastors
Pastors are prime candidates for relational isolation, emotional turmoil, and moral collapse.
Self-Promoting Wolves or Selfless Shepherds?
I started thinking more about the leaders who have made the greatest impression upon me throughout my life. I came up with four characteristics that were universal.
Church Planters and the Cost of Starting a Church
In releasing these findings, our hope is to liberate planters to have open and honest conversations about their financial reality — and that those conversations will lead to innovative ideas that advance the church planting movement into a season of unparalleled health and growth.
5 Future Trends of Church Planting
- Becoming more technical and strategic.
- Becoming more urban.
- Becoming more modular.
- Becoming more bi-vocational.
- Becoming more diverse.
3 Reasons You Should See Going to Church As a Privilege, Not a Chore
Here are three ways we should see gathering with God’s people as privilege.
The Gospel Coalition just released the April 2016 issue of Themelios, which has 208 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews.
