Matt will be coming to San Jose this weekend.
At the recent Dallas Boot Camp, Matt Chandler took a few minutes before his session to explain why he's a part of the Acts 29 Network.
Matt will speak at the San Jose boot camp on June 3-4 – please join us to hear him, Mark Driscoll, D.A. Carson, Scott Thomas and Jeff Vanderstelt talk about the mission of Christians everywhere, and the role of the church in making disciples of all nations.
Registration for San Jose Boot Camp closes at midnight tonight – get registered now!
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It's the beginning of Day 2 of Acts 29 Boot Camp at Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
At this moment, Acts 29 member Martin Scott is sharing from his own life with about 125 boot campers who have returned for training and discussion. Those here today are those who are in the midst of church planting, about to plant, or part of a planting team.
Everyone is at round tables, hosted by Acts 29 members, to listen to 7-minute talks by church planters based on the topics of the Man (church planter's character), Mission, Message and Marriage. Each talk is followed by a table discussion for each participant to share from their own lives, ask questions and receive help as they pursue and clarify their calling.
Here are a few more photos from yesterday's activities:
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by Mark Driscoll
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You get to pick your friends. Your wife gets to pick her friends. Your kids get to pick their friends.
As a pastor, you will be blessed if even one of these friends is on your leadership team. You are likely young, naïve, and simplistic, and so you will disagree with me. You will work very hard to make leaders in your church into friends and pretend they are peers. It will blow up when you have to lead them, correct them, fire them, and/or they betray you. True friends may emerge from your young church plant, but only time will tell. Give it some years and see who sticks around and acts like a Christian. As a church planter, the odds are your real friends will be people outside of your church who are spiritually mature ...
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Darrin Patrick, Vice President of the Acts 29 Network and lead pastor of The Journey Church in St. Louis, authored Church Planter, published by Crossway.
Crossway has generously allowed us to post Chapter 2 for free.
Get it here.
Join Us for the Church Planter Conference in San Jose on June 3-4
We are excited to be joining The Gospel Coalition and NorCal Network to bring Mark Driscoll, D.A. Carson, Matt Chandler, Scott Thomas and Jeff Vanderstelt to San Jose in June to speak to church members, leaders and planters about getting on mission through church planting to see more people meet Jesus. Don't miss your opportunity to hear from leading influencers about God's mission to save the lost through Spirit-led and empowered church planting. ...
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by Mark Driscoll
As church planters, Grace and I learned the hard way what a friendship is and is not. Somehow, I got the silly notion that everyone who picked me to be their friend was, in fact, my friend.
Subsequently, I ate lots of meals with people I did not enjoy, had people on my family vacations that drove me so nutty I could not wait to get back to work, and spent countless hours answering the phone, replying to emails, and responding to the demands of pushy, rude, selfish people who smiled while saying words like “buddy” and “friend.” What they meant by “friend” was something more akin to “bullied victim.”
The truth is, as a pastor, you and your wife have many kinds of relationships. What has been helpful for ...
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