Faithful Church Planter, The: Eleven Essential Competencies for the Work

What will keep us going in church planting? How can we be faithful to the end? 

This resource shows us what it looks like to start faithful and stay faithful in church planting ministry. Tony Merida draws wisdom from the Scriptures to show us the eleven core competencies that mark a healthy church planter. If you aspire to plant churches, whether you’re a seasoned pastor or a growing leader, The Faithful Church Planter will help equip you to be deployed around the corner or across the globe, scattering gospel communities everywhere.

212 pages.

Many of us have come to see that God is at work in unprecedented ways in this country and around the world through the planting of new churches. Few people have earned the respect in church planting as Tony Merida. This book will enable those planting churches, or wondering if they should, to benefit from the wisdom and experience of one who of the key leaders of the church planting movement today. If you care about church planting, you will come away from this book with a kind of coaching and mentorship that can only come from one with this sort of earned credibility and authority and fidelity.  

Russell Moore, Public Theologian, Christianity Today

 “Written, not as a how-to manual, but as a helpful guide for the journey, Tony Merida offers us wisdom, clarity, and true encouragement.” 

Jen Oshman, author, Enough About Me; church planter’s wife, Redemption Parker; podcaster; women’s ministry leader

The Faithful Church Planter by my friend Tony Merida sees through the “cool” church planter image that has let us down. Tony guides us back to what we really believe. This book will help raise up a new generation of faithful and fruitful church planters who deserve to be celebrated and supported. 

Ray Ortlund, Renewal Ministries, Nashville

 “As I read this book I found my affections for the church, church planting, the lost and Jesus stirred anew.” 

Steve Robinson, Senior Pastor, Cornerstone Church, Liverpool; Director, Cornerstone Collective 

“I am pleased to commend to you The Faithful Church Planter by Tony Merida which contains gems to be found for those who are prayerfully considering the work of church planting.” 

Dr. Winfield Bevins, Director of Church Planting, Asbury Seminary; author, Marks of a Movement