Our friends at NACPF (North America Church Planting Foundation) are planning their annual conference next October. I could not endorse a church planting network with greater support.

The NACPF has successfully planted ten churches thus far and every one of their church plants are thriving in their own way. To God be the glory! The NACPF has three primary distinctions; Gospel, Community, and Mission. They serve as a network of like-minded churches, church planters, and sponsors that advocate three core values:

  • Gospel: We seek to advance the Kingdom of God by upholding and celebrating the gospel, the good news that Jesus Christ has overcome sin and death through his own death on the cross. As a result of Jesus’ work on the cross, we can overcome sin and death. It is critical that the church know and recite the good news repeatedly. This good news is the hope for mankind and the solution for the aches of our society. It, therefore, should be proclaimed and shared just as Jesus commanded (Mt 29:19-20; Mk 16:15; Lk 24:46-49; Acts 1:8).
  • Community: As we proclaim and advance the gospel, we aspire to practice authentic community that is shaped by the gospel and creates a context where believers can grow in their walk with Christ. The NT model for the local church is one of cooperating, sharing, and growing together (Acts 2). There is a “one-another” quality to the Christian faith that can only exist in a gospel-centered community. The church is not merely a place where people share burdens and fellowship about life. Rather, they do so with a unique perspective as they intentionally build each other up in Christ. Timothy Lane and Paul Tripp in their book How People Change remind us that this growth is a “community project.”
  • Mission: No conception of God’s gospel can be complete without an understanding of its outward momentum. God is missional. He is pursuing, at great cost to himself, the lost. Churches within the NACPF intentionally structure their ministries and services to welcome the lost, those who have not heard or embraced the good news. In this respect, we seek to plant church-planting churches who will grow to the point that they are ready to plant self-sustained, theologically healthy, gospel-centered communities who also have written into their ministry blueprint that they are missional.

I am taking everyone from our SendSFL Network to this conference and I hope to meet you there.