The latest from Missional Press!

Planting Churches in the Real World by Joel Rainey

My good friend Joel’s first book is about to be released from Missional Press, and let me say that it’s a delightful and eminently profitable read. As the publisher’s press release notes:

Most church planting literature highlights enormously successful ministries. While such ministries can serve as a noble benchmark for every church planter, they are far from the norm. Most who plant churches will never see their name in lights, and all who plant churches will find it to be one of the most difficult things they have ever sought to accomplish.

Here is wise counsel from a faithful pastor learned well while planting churches in the real world.

(Missional Press is offering a pre-publication sale. The book retails for $14.99 but if you enter the code CJ5E9D at checkout, you will receive 20% off your purchase of Planting Churches in the Real World. Click here to purchase the book. The book should be shipping around the end of April.)

On the road again …

Well, I’ve spent a couple of days making my way from Atlanta, GA to Manhattan, KS … driving by way of Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri. Total road time was about 14 hours. Some folks, I suppose, would think that a waste of time, an unnecessary burden, too much trouble, and anything but fun. They would be wrong!

I stopped all along the way — to get gas for the car, to have a bite to eat, to grab some coffee (after which I had to stop at the rest areas) — and all along the way, then, I met folks, all kinds of folks, and just got to spend a little time with people I didn’t know until the moment our ways crossed. I hope it was helpful for them; it was very, very good for me! The regularity of everyday life can, if we’re not careful (and we’re often not), breed complacency in us, and we get settled and comfortable and “at home” in the world, forgetting the mission we’ve been given to the world.

Let me recommend that you get on the road again as soon as possible!