How are you to plant a church instead of just planting a service? And, the reason that I want to answer this is that I think a lot of pastors go into church planting, but really their heart is that they just want to put together a really good worship service.

One of the sacred cows elder pluralities are reluctant to touch is the sacred area of lead-pastor preaching. Let’s touch it.

Mike Cosper sketches out four things about ministry in a post-Christian culture, ranging from the effects of modernity on the Church, to ways to think about evangelism, to why the Star Wars prequels sucked.