Join us March 10-11 at The Village Church in Dallas, Texas, for our first Boot Camp 2.0
A New Kind of Boot Camp
The Acts 29 Network helps pastors plant churches that plant churches so more people can know about Jesus. To better help pastors plant those churches, we are offering a new kind of church planter boot camp we are calling Boot Camp 2.0.
Boot Camp 2.0 will take place over three days; the training and audience will get more focused and more specific as the boot camp progresses. Those pastors interested in joining Acts 29 as members will need to attend all three days. The other two days will be open to a larger group of people.
Day One Features our Top Communicators on Biblical Church Planting.
The first day will provide a place for anyone interested in church planting, church ...
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Pastor Mark Driscoll is offering free, online leadership coaching for church leaders everywhere. If you'd like to participate in this leadership coaching, or are curious, read more here.
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By Pastor Scott Thomas, President of Acts 29
David Powlison, in his book, Seeing with New Eyes (P & R Publishing, 2003) examines human motivation—why we do what we do by listing 35 questions that are practical, theological, psychological, motivational and convicting. (pg. 132-40)
By asking these questions, pastors can discover hidden (and not so hidden) idols in their hearts. I am deeply concerned about the spiritual health of pastors more than ever. We verbalize all of the right things about gospel-centrality and we mentally ascent to worshipping God whole-heartedly. Yet, functionally we bow before the gods of knowledge, achievement, success, creativity and prestige.
Tim Keller said:
"Remember, your career didn't die for your sins. Neither did your marriage. It's hard not to ...
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Tags: self-assessing questions, health, leadership, christian, idolatry, david powlison, idol factory, ten qualities of a church planter, spiritual vitality, acts 29 network, acts 29
By Scott Thomas
Every young man that considers church planting asks the question, “Am I a Church Planter?” It is the question I asked myself many years ago. It is the question we ask every man who submits himself to our Acts 29 assessment process to be a lead planter in our network. Many times he is depending on our assessment process to confirm his calling.
Over the next year, this blog will focus on ten qualities that we believe are important for a church planter to effectively plant the gospel in a community. We will produce articles that reflect on one quality each month and then we hope to publish an e-book on each quality that compiles the articles into a document equivalent in size to a single chapter in a book.
Most church planting books and publications helpfully ...
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Subash recently became a full member of the Acts 29 Network, and we are thrilled to have him as part of the team! He is ministering to immigrants in Dallas through The Crossroad Church.
W.J. Subash was in Dallas solely to pursue a Ph.D at Dallas Theological Seminary. But God had different plans. After several months at DTS, he realized a great need.
Acts 29: What happened? What was the need?
Subash: I realized that there were a huge number of unreached people groups from south Asia and the churches in DFW are not able to reach them with the Gospel. In March 2001, my wife Alice and I decided to start Bible study groups and invite Asian Indians for the study. God blessed this effort. Within a few months, we ended up conducting Bible studies in five different ...
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