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Do We Really Need More Churches?

Umm…at the risk of making this the shortest blog post ever…YES. OK, but seriously.  We do need more churches.  Why?  #OKCalmDown, I will explain. First, a question – take a guess – what is the current ratio of churches to people in the US? Like 1 church per XX number

A Historical Message

If you’ve been reading this blog more than 90 seconds, hopefully you have realized that we are really big on the gospel.  “Gospel centrality” is one of our core, non-negotiable values.  Darrin Patrick in his helpful book, Church Planter speaks of the gospel being a historical message.  When some people

What is the Mission?

In our exploration of the topic of church planting, we have already looked at the “why” in the last few posts, but now let’s take a look at the “what.”  What is it that churches do?  Or more pointedly – what is the most important thing churches do? What is

Compassion Killers

In the last post, we were talking about compassion being a major motivation for planting a church.  But there are some things we need to watch out for that kill compassion.  Such as: Legalism kills compassion.  When we hold so tightly to our own interpretation of what someone must do

Prepare for Take Off

If you’ve flown anywhere, those are good words.  It means the plane will soon head down the runway at (hopefully) high speed, take off, and fly you to your destination. Last night, the take off of Highlands Bible Church was overwhelmingly approved.  HBC will be the Vernon, NJ campus of the

Getting Ready to Launch

This past Monday, we held an Informational Meeting and by God’s grace we had 14 people commit to being part of the Launch Team for Highlands Bible Church! The team is being built and it is so exciting to see the beginning of things coming together. When we talk about