The Ordinary Means of Church Planning

"Lead with preaching, lead with the Word of God before fellowship," he says. "What meaningfully draws God's people together except His Word?" I'm most concerned about sending missionaries that are doing sincere works and having good conversations but not sharing the gospel in a way that doesn't leave something behind. We send them out into hard places, places with no churches. And we're really surprised whenever we see these people struggle, their marriages struggle, their spiritual life struggle. Now, that's because they're at least distance from a healthy church that shepherds them and opens the Word to them.