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How to Start a Church Plant Group Within a Congregation
How to Start a Church Plant Group Within a Congregation When St. Paul’s Free Lutheran in Fargo was beginning to pursue the possibility of church planting in the Fargo/Moorhead area at the beginning of 2022, they were doing so in a given context of work that had come...
Book Review
Book Review: Church Plant Director, Winfield Bevins in his book Ever Ancient Ever New: The Allure of Liturgy for a New Generation presents a fascinating case that the broader evangelical church is finally waking up from its liturgical slumber. For many years,...
Why a Welcome Team System is Important
Why a Welcome Team System is Important Last month my wife Bethany went on a business trip to South Dakota. She and her Hawaiian coworkers had never been to this state before and were excited for their first experience of the midwest. They flew into...
A Simple Strategy to Building Relationships
A Simple Strategy to Building Relationships Have you ever considered Jesus’ chosen method of outreach? With unlimited resources, He could have created an out-of-this world outreach experience unlike anything we could humanly imagine. He could have out-crystaled the...
Fostering a Heart for Evangelism in Your Congregation
Fostering a Heart for Evangelism in Your Church “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls,” Proverbs 11:30. From the moment of Adam & Eve’s fall to the time of Christ’s return, our Heavenly Father has desired men and...
How to Plant a church
HOW TO PLANT A CHURCH IN SIX (NOT SO) EASY STEPS Our culture today is infatuated with “Life hacks” and “3 Easy Step” methods to achieve desired goals. While I’m all for working smart, I’m not a fan of promising quick and easy fixes to complex challenges. Rather than...
Can You Imagine?
What if there was a place where the sovereign, transcendent, eternal, and loving God promised to be substantially present with you in a regular and seemingly-ordinary feast. A place where he promises that this heavenly food actually gives you life and spiritual...
What’s Unique about us?
Unique What is it that Free Lutherans can offer to the broader church planting movement in America? What gifts do we have? Is there something unique about us? What can we offer that the generic Bible believing church down the road doesn’t? We both believe the Bible....