{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks","title":"Episode 19: On Church Mergers and Plants","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1531,"description":"We just released a Journal on church planting and church mergers. Because neither Mark nor Jonathan wrote an article for it, we devoted this episode of Pastors’ Talk to the topic.\nAlso: this will be our last Pastors’ Talk until September, though we’ll be recording them all summer, so send us your ideas if you have them!\nSHOW NOTES:\n— Have you (Mark) ever been a church planter? (2:30)\n— Why are the topics of planting and mergers worth thinking through? (4:10)\n— Is there a different skill set for the church planter and someone leading a church merger? (8:00)\n— What’s some bad advice you often hear for church planters? (9:20)\n— Do some of the problems stem from a dependence on agencies as opposed to churches? What are agencies useful for? What should they not do that they tend to do? (11:00)\n— What common wisdom do you have to offer those involved in church mergers? (13:10)\n— When does the “church plant” become a church? (19:00)\n— Who should leave a church to go with a plant? (20:00)\n— Do you have elders first, and then members? Or the other way around? (22:20)","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bnIE2C5lFRyGOvRekZQzcZmjGYVMjy9sj6ZNDLydLt8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOWZm/N2JhYmZmMzFjNWFh/ODUzMzE0ZTc5YjA5/MTUzMi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}