RENEW is a network of churches and partner organizations committed to establishing gospel-centered churches throughout Metropolitan Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. We will do this by bringing churches together to work and partnering with one another in order to identify, raise up, and train emerging leaders to plant churches in different communities within South Florida.

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Gospel Astonishment

Scotty Smith, Founding Pastor Christ Community Church (Nashville) “There is no commitment we will make as church planters of greater importance than living close to Jesus.  For church planting can become an idol factory; a prostitution ring; a cruel taskmaster; a breeding ground for addictions… we need church planters who will love Jesus with abandon, and [...]

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How to Become a Church-Planting Church

Jonathan McIntosh, Lead Pastor Christ City Church (Memphis) Next month, I get to work with a growing church to help them develop a program for church-planting interns – with the end goal being to start new churches. Granted, what is now a large church was a church plant at some point, so church-planting is a [...]

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Chuck DeGroat, “Spiritual Life of a Church-Planter”

At the City to City North American Network Gathering in Miami, Chuck DeGroat and Tim Keller discuss various issues in the spiritual life of a church-planter

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Tim Keller, “Gospel Ecosystems”

At the City to City North American Network Gathering in Miami, Tim Keller discusses how churches ought to seek the creation of Gospel Ecosystems in the city.

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Tim Keller, “The Challenge of North American Cities”

At the City to City North American Network Gathering in Miami, Tim Keller discusses four challenges facing the urban North American church: Hostility Culture-making Justice & Mercy Apologetics

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Effective Ministry in Cities

Tim Keller, Senior Pastor Redeemer Presbyterian Church (NYC) Expect to reach the suburbs from the city, but never to reach the city from the suburbs. Contrary to popular opinion, people will come into the city to church but will not leave it to go to church. And in the city you find “future suburbanites”: the [...]

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Why the World is Becoming More Urban

Felipe Assis, Lead Pastor Crossbridge Church (Miami) I remember siting through a sociology class in my high school in Brazil as the teacher presented to us students the rural exodus phenomenon. His negative tone to the presentation connected well to our contextual reality for as many of you know, there are many urban problems in [...]

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Why Plant Churches, Anyway?

Tim Keller, Senior Pastor Redeemer Presbyterian Church The vigorous, continual planting of new congregations is the single most crucial strategy for the 1) numerical growth of the Body of Christ in any city, and the 2) continual corporate renewal and revival of the existing churches in a city. Nothing else – not crusades, outreach programs, [...]

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