Explore Resources
Explore a curated collection of resources on church planting, designed to provide practical guidance, theological grounding, and real-world insight for leaders in every stage of the process. Whether you are discerning a call, building a team, or navigating early challenges, this library offers accessible tools and content to support healthy, sustainable church formation and missional engagement.
The Church as a Movement
Public gatherings are vital for movement, but too often in our approach to planting churches, we haven't paid enough attention to the difficult grassroots work of movement: discipleship, community formation, and mission. This book will help you start missional-incarnational communities in a way that reflects the viral movement of the early New Testament church.
City Shaped Churches
A guide to planting churches that fit the unique challenges of global cities, not suburbs.
The Honest Guide to Church Planting
A candid, no-spin look at the real costs and challenges of planting a church.
Center Church
A case for building church life around gospel truth and authentic community together.
Planting Missional Churches
A comprehensive practical playbook for starting and multiplying churches.
Multiplication & Kingdom Collaboration
Part of our Multiplication Series: Dr. Michael Carrion teaches us how to foster a culture that celebrates multiple orthodox traditions and veins of theology — all for the sake of kingdom collaboration and gospel work in your city.
Multiplication & Culture
Multiplication begins with a sacrificial life. What does that actually look like in your context? Dr. Todd Engstrom kicks off our Multiplication series.
Churches Planting Churches with Acts 29
Acts 29 x TGC's podcast on planting and leading healthy churches.
Politics & The Gospel
As we roll into an election year, how do we prepare our leaders and congregations to meet a historically tumultuous season with wisdom? Kaitlyn Schiess joins us for a grounded conversation on politics and the gospel.
Church Planter Podcast
A weekly, casual show on church planting issues, stories, and solutions.
Kingdom Minded & Mission Focused Church Planting
Audio from our most recent Church Planting Conference, featuring guest Ed Stetzer on what it means to plant churches that are both kingdom-minded and mission-focused.
The Emotionally Healthy Leader
Camping out in 1 Thessalonians, Jeff Vanderstelt investigates the sickness of hidden sin among some of today's most prominent pastors and ministry leaders. What does it actually look like to lead with gentleness, lowliness, and vulnerability?
Gospel Centered, Spirit Led Planting
Audio from our most recent Church Planting Conference — our first session with Dr. Eric Mason on what it means to plant gospel-centered, Spirit-led churches.
Engaging The City
Fort Worth is the fastest-growing city in the country. Where does a faith community step up? Mayor Mattie Parker paints a picture for planters of the needs — and the hope — of a city on its way to becoming one of the largest metroplexes in America.
New Churches Podcast
Produced by the Send Network, this Q&A-format show tackles listener questions on church planting, multisite ministry, multiplication, leadership development, and discipleship.
Apostolic Church Planting
A concise theology and practical guide to planting churches out of new disciples.
The Wisdom Shape of Communicating the Gospel
Walking through the wisdom of Solomon — and how even the wisest man pales next to Jesus. We have to start reading Scripture through the frame of wisdom, that Jesus is one greater than Solomon. Are we ministering with a wisdom blind spot?
Building From The Broken
Jesus is explicit in Matthew 28: make disciples, mature them, mobilize them. Doug Logan unpacks the Great Commission through the lens of healthy leadership formation in church planting.
Preaching That Moves People
Yancey Arrington walks through the importance of gospel centrality in preaching. The most moving sermons don't need a catchy tagline or cultural relevance — they need to be centered on the gospel, calling listeners to Jesus.
Completely Known and Unconditionally Accepted
After 40 years of marriage and over 30 years pastoring, Bruce and Susan Wesley share what makes healthy marriages possible in the turbulence of planting a church.