Replant

Grow Where You’re Replanted Today’s spiritual landscape is littered with churches on their last legs, forcing us to reconsider how we keep the Body of Christ alive and strong. The solution, according to visionary pastors Darrin Patrick and Mark DeVine, is to infuse new blood into the body and by seeking God’s presence and guidance. Avoiding cookie-cutter steps or how-to formulas, Replant describes the story of a church resurrection, a story that offers a multitude of divinely inspired, and practical possibilities for church planters. The result is a harvest of inspiring ideas on how to inspire new church growth. Discover a new openness to churches merging with other congregations, changing leadership, and harvesting fresh spiritual fruit—inviting us all to re-think how churches not only survive, but thrive.

Darrin Patrick is the lead pastor of The Journey, a church in St. Louis, and the vice president of Acts 29, a global church-planting network. He also serves as the chaplain to the St. Louis Cardinals. Darrin is the author of The Dude's Guide to Manhood, Church Planter, and coauthor of For the City. He and his wife, Amie, have four children. Darrin blogs at DarrinPatrick.org.

Mark DeVine is a professor at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. He has taught at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City and also served as a missionary in Bangkok, Thailand. Mark has pastored churches in five states and speaks regularly at conferences around the world.