Ed Stetzer

Ed Stetzer has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia. He has trained pastors and church planters on five continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has written dozens of articles and books. Ed is a columnist for Outreach Magazine and Catalyst Monthly, serves on the advisory council of Sermon Central and Christianity Today's Building Church Leaders, and is frequently cited or interviewed in news outlets such as USAToday and CNN.

Ed is Visiting Professor of Research and Missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Visiting Research Professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has taught at fifteen other colleges and seminaries. He also serves on the Church Services Team at the International Mission Board.

Ed is currently interim teaching pastor of First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, TN.

Ed's primary role is President of LifeWay Research and LifeWay's Missiologist in Residence.

He has written the following books:

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Catch Ed Twittering: Still at the office. Thinking I should go home. But, trying to get a bunch done so I can take off next week. (6:21pm)

Advent without the Conspiracy

Sermon Central has published my new article on Christmas called, "Advent without the Conspiracy." Here are some excerpts: The very word "advent" essentially means the arrival of something. So, as we celebrate Christmas, we supposedly celebrate the arrival of God...

Church Planting Leadership Fellowship Today

Right now, I am meeting with the Church Planting Leadership Fellowship. In this picture, Todd Wilson is teaching about starting churches through servant evangelism ministries. Other presentations included Rick Howerton on Small Groups in church plants, David Garrison on Church...

Love Me Some Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

I had a great time teaching at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School a few weeks ago. It was a tremendous week. While I was there they shot a video about the school to start their "professor run in" series. You can...

Childhood Experience Bearing Adult Fruit

New research coming out of the Barna Group sought to get some insight to a questions many of us ask. "What is the connection between childhood faith and adult religious commitment?" From the Barna Update, The survey asked adults to...

Gospel Definitions

There is a lot of talk about the gospel these day. Yes, it's all gospel and gospel-centeredness, and yet many are still fuzzy when it comes to defining the good news of Jesus Christ. In my Missional Church class at...

Still at the office. Thinking I should go home. But, trying to get a bunch done so I can take off next week.
posted at 6:21 pm on Fri, Nov 20

Talking about MissionShift, our new summer "missional week" at Ridgecrest, NC (Asheville). Mark the date! July 12-14, 2010
posted at 3:32 pm on Fri, Nov 20

Thinking about doing a live monthly web show with questions about church, culture, and ministry. Whaddayathink?
posted at 12:48 pm on Fri, Nov 20

http://twitpic.com/q8kih - About to record a podcast on my co-authored book Compelled by Love.
posted at 11:09 am on Fri, Nov 20

Bible on XBox-- & from LifeWay. Whodaguessed? ;-) Aaron Linne (@linne) is a freak of nature. http://linne.wordpress.com/
posted at 10:41 am on Fri, Nov 20

Just committed to speak at an Hispanic ministry conference. Está bien.
posted at 10:31 am on Fri, Nov 20

Headed to the office. I do miss that place when I am gone. ;-)
posted at 9:03 am on Fri, Nov 20

Well, now that I've seen 2012 I'm building an ark & buying 2012 Christmas presents VERY late that year. Just in case. ;-)
posted at 10:21 pm on Thu, Nov 19

@davidlandrith That, my friend, was a LONG movie.
posted at 10:20 pm on Thu, Nov 19