Church planting. As churches rapidly expand, church planters can be tempted to fixate on gaining numbers and achieving financial stability as their only metrics for success. “Expanding the brand” so to speak. They fail to focus on lifting up Christ’s people within the church. Pastor and Author Nathan Knight says the goal of pastoral ministry must be built on a basic biblical foundation: a church plant is in fact a church, and a planter is in fact a pastor.

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