This is the third and final installment of Matt Chewning’s three-part post on church planting. In these posts Chewning, Lead Pastor of Netcast Church in Beverly, MA–a suburb of Boston, walks through the first three years of planting a church, offering practical insight and wisdom from his experience as to how we all should rethink mission and strategy in church planting. If you missed …
Mergers: Combining Churches to Multiply Disciples
B21 is excited to offer a guest post from Matt Rogers. This blog post is a sample from the free ebook available on the SEND Network: Mergers: Combining Churches to Multiply Disciples. Mergers “Why plant a church in this city when we already have so many churches that are struggling or dying?” Church planters often are asked this question, in subtle and …
Year 2: Generosity is the New Evangelism
After a quick break for the ERLC Summit, we present part two of Matt Chewning’s three-part post on church planting. If you missed part one, “Don’t Plant a Church,” be sure to check it out here. In these posts Matt Chewning, Lead Pastor of Netcast Church in Beverly, MA–a suburb of Boston, walks through the first three years of planting a church, offering …
Concluding Thoughts on the ERLC Summit
It is clear from the amount of activity on the Twitter hashtag for the ERLC Leadership Summit (#erlcsummit) that this event is necessary and helpful to Christians who want to be equipped in how the gospel intersects with human sexuality. Many accused the appeal to convictional kindness and gospel fidelity in the Summit’s sessions to be misogynistic, homo-phobic, and bigoted. …
Thoughts from the ERLC Leadership Summit: Days Two and Three
Reminder: all primary sessions and panels are uploaded on the ERLC website and can be viewed here. Day 2 and 3 of ERLC Leadership Summit provided more fireworks on Twitter. They also provided some great content on how the gospel interacts with sexuality and how the church should respond in this age of confusion both inside the church and out. As …
Thoughts from the ERLC Leadership Summit: Day One
B21 will be checking in from the ERLC Leadership Summit daily. Just a reminder, you can keep up with the sessions at the ERLC Summit by following us @baptist21 or by checking in on the #erlcsummit on twitter. Also, you can view the sessions live at live.erlc.com One does not have to be in ministry very long to know that …
ERLC Leadership Summit: The Gospel and Human Sexuality
Our brother Paul tells us that the when God establishes marriage in the beginning (A man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh) that “this mystery is profound” and it “refers to Christ and the church” (Eph. 5:31-32). Our brother has established for us that human sexuality is …
Year One: Don’t Plant a Church
Baptist 21 is excited to offer a three-part post from Matt Chewning, Lead Pastor of Netcast Church in Beverly, MA–a suburb of Boston. In these posts Chewning walks through the first three years of planting a church, offering practical insight and wisdom from his experience as to how we all should rethink mission and strategy in church planting. Be sure …
Why “Heaven is for Real” Scares Me
In a few days the movie based off the best selling “Evangelical Christian” book of the last decade, Heaven is For Real, debuts. Some of the truths in the sentence I just wrote frighten me and cause me to wonder if we have a biblically discerning, “Berean” culture in today’s Evangelical Church (cf. Acts 17:11). If you have not read the …
Pastoral Poison: Self-Glory
Guest post by Matt Chewning, Lead Pastor of Netcast Church in Beverly, MA Pastoral Poison: Self-Glory Self-Glory Competition: For as far back as I can remember, I’ve been the most competitive person I know. I hate losing — I hate it more than I love winning. Besides being born a sinner, I also was born into a family where this “competitive trait” drove …