Dear Friend in Christ, The turn of a new year prompts reflection on the past and the future. We have much to be grateful for, and we expect the Lord to continue to build his church, despite our frailty. “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship,Continue Reading
Scott Korljan, the pastor of Scottsdale Church Plant in Arizona, interviewed Simon Jooste, the pastor of Reformed Church Southern Suburbs, on his podcast “No Lasting City” in November 2021. Among other things, Simon spoke about how he came to return to South Africa after studying and working the United StatesContinue Reading
There are, in the Reformed world, broadly, three approaches to church planting: To reach the lost To gather the Reformed To harvest the Reforming Of course, these three goals are not hermetically sealed from the others, but, typically, church-planting works prioritize one of them. For some, the priority is reachingContinue Reading
Rev. Mihai Corcea, who has planted a Reformed church in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, shares his thoughts on Reformed missions in an Eastern Orthodox context. Watch the video.Continue Reading
Audio here. SPEAKER – Rev Thomas Dreyer 1) Challenges to church planting in the RCSA: an “Afrikaans” perspective 2) Why Church planting? Church planting as a catalyst for repentance, renewal and growth in the RCSA 3) Gauging success in terms of fruitfulness SPEAKER – Rev. Simon Jooste 1) Challenges toContinue Reading
In his essay entitled “Industrial or pastoral?: The Techniques of Church Growth,” church historian and elder DG Hart begins by asking the probing question: Can measurements of “customer satisfaction,” which have largely been borrowed from the industrial and mechanical world, be helpfully appied to something that is fundamentally organic andContinue Reading