Monday, August 01, 2022

5 Essential Ingredients for Planting Purpose Driven Churches


By Brandon A. Cox

If the local church is the hope of the world… then we need more local churches.

As I write this, I’m a couple of hours away from teaching a lab at Saddleback Church’s Hope Renewed conference on Planting Purpose Driven Churches. I’m a huge believer in the power of church planting for extending the reach of God’s kingdom throughout the world.

The story of Grace Hills, the church we’ve been planting since Saddleback sent us to Northwest Arkansas six years ago, has had some exciting things happen. We started with one other family and this past Easter, we had over 550 people attending. That’s cool! But growing larger isn’t the most beautiful part of our story.

It’s that we’ve managed to spread out and multiply. Read More

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