Category: Training
How Do Great Churches Develop Their Leaders?
by Todd Rhoades: How do great churches develop their leaders? At Leadership Network, we hear this question all the time. Every growing church needs to constantly be identifying and training up leaders. But how? We asked 100 of the country’s largest churches this very question: How do you identify and train leaders? Last year’s […]
Discipling Millennials: Engaging the Next Generation with the Gospel
by Dr. Kennon Vaughan: As the future of the church, we must understand how to effectively disciple millennials—a generation with unique strengths, weaknesses, learning habits, and desires. Drawing from years of ministry experience and relevant Ph.D. and doctoral studies, the leaders of this track will address how and why the church is […]
Radical Mentoring
by Regi Campbell: Mentoring in a small group can change you, your church and the world. It sounds dramatic, but we believe it’s true. The world needs sold-out, all-in Jesus followers—leaders and disciple makers. The church is Jesus’ chosen vehicle for spreading his Name and mentoring is his chosen vehicle […]
Reach the Lost
by Brandon Guindon: This blog is an excerpt from the free eBook, Stay the Course: Seven Essential Practices for Disciple Making Churches. Download this eBook here in your favorite format at no cost. My greatest fear growing up was getting lost. It terrified me so much at times that while […]
Episode 185: Training Your Core Team
by Daniel Im: How should you train your core team? This week we are giving you a preview of our Developing a Core Team Course. This week we have focused on building a solid core team as you prepare to plant a church or campus. In today’s episode, Pastor Ronnie Parrott talks about training […]
Leadership and the Campus Pastor
By Stephen Smith: In any and all organizations, the leadership quotient can never be understated. Mountains of books exist on the subject. Whole industries are built around sharpening leaders. If you’ve been in leadership for any period of time, you know how important that sharpening time is. Let’s talk then […]
Passion 4 Planting’s experience at Exponential East
by Sean Cronin: Last week the Passion for Planting team traveled to Orlando, Florida for the Exponential East Church Planting Conference. During our time there, we taught several workshops, and promoted our church planting resources and services to thousands of church planters. One of the highlights of our week was […]
Exponential East 2017 Day 1 Main Sessions
Helen Keller once said, “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” Today’s main session speakers challenged conference attendees to discern and pursue God’s unique vision and calling for their lives. Here are some memorable quotes from each speaker: “Don’t get stuck in the math […]
Exponential East 2017 Pre-Conference, Day 2
Such great content and wisdom being shared with us church planters at the Exponential East 2017 pre-conference day 2: Generosity & Fundraising Strategies Phil Ling Step 1: BUILD THE LIST People you need to add to your list: Start with your ‘Christmas card list’ High capacity givers Positional leaders Tribal […]
Church Planter Assessment
Are you wrestling with a nagging sense that you’re supposed to be planting a church? Have you decided to plant, but sometimes still question your calling? Passion for Planting’s church planter assessment process will help you clarify your calling to church planting. Come interact with a team of assessors who will […]