By NewChurches.com: In Episode 597 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed explore new, creative, and imaginative ways to handle issues surrounding church planting.

“What are some new, creative, and imaginative ways denominations and networks are planting churches?”

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Different ways church planters are creating churches in 2021
If a stronger focus on disciple making and micro church approaches will be the new norm

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“Many networks tend to have a looser ecclesiology, they are get it done people.” – @edstetzer
“We are making a list of the ways churches are combining facilities.” – @edstetzer
“Our number one big opportunity was online.” – @edstetzer
“The idea of packing a bunch of people in an exciting room for a worship service didn’t resonate with a lot of people in 2020 and early 2021, so I think that helped push people toward more missional approaches.” – @edstetzer
“Launch large, up until COVID, had been increasing. And then when COVID hit, all these churches had to pivot.” – @danielsangi
“Many churches during the pandemic launched online.” – @danielsangi
“People revert to the norm. The most likely predictor of future behavior is past behavior.” – @edstetzer
“Other cultural issues would have in my view longer term, bigger impacts on missiological strategy assuming the pandemic is a two year experience.” – @edstetzer

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By NewChurches.com: In Episode 589 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss what student ministry can look like in micro-churches.

“How, as we launch micro-churches or small church plants, can we encourage and develop strong student ministries?”

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

What student ministry looks like in micro-church context
Why student ministry volunteers are important

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“The idea is that the house church is not going to be age-graded in the same way.”  – @edstetzer
“Students will be brought into the life of the congregation as the young adults that they are.” – @edestetzer
“If it is a movement, sometimes the student ministry does connect across the movement.” – @edstetzer
“There can be community student ministry. There can be collaborative student ministry with other micro-churches.” – @edstetzer
“My experience has been that most people in micro-churches who have student age participants, they are actually involved in the life of the church and are often engaged in the student ministry of another church in town in a larger context.” – @edstetzer
“As a volunteer, you have an opportunity for profound impact.” – @edstetzer
“Perhaps your role within a micro-church context within a student ministry is about equipping students and developing them into leader-developers and disciplers who can disciple others in their context.” – @danielsangi

Recommended Resources:

Read Organic Church by Neil Cole

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No matter how many people you have on staff at your church, there’s only so much you can accomplish in a day, right? Your church exists to serve your community, so the mission of your church and its staff is to reach as many people as you can.

So BELAY, the innovative staffing solution with over 10 years of experience serving churches with virtual assistants, bookkeepers and social media strategists, is offering a free download of their resource, ‘Church Leaders: Essential Strategies to Unleash Productivity.’

Let BELAY help your church live its mission in your community by helping you juggle less and accomplish more. Visit belaysolutions.com/lifeway for your free download.

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Source: PODCAST 109: Multiplying Churches Until There’s No Place Left

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By NewChurches.com: In Episode 554 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss how the church should multiply in the midst of a culture continuing to grapple with COVID.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Some of the challenges the church will continue to face in 2021
How you grow in micro-ways and a macro-way

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“How in the midst of all of that should we multiply as a church?” – @danielsangi
“Jesus never said to go and make disciples until you have COVID.”  – @danielsangi
“Part of being a disciple is making other disciples.” – @toddadkins
“Perhaps in 2021, your vision for multiplication is actually a downward sort of root-focused based multiplication.” – @danielsangi
“Perhaps you need to grow in depth before you can be sent out and send others out.” – @danielsangi
“What does it look like for you as a church to be on the offense as it relates to multiplying and being a blessing?” – @danielsangi
“Your church is strategically positioned to bring the gospel to that subdivision, to that community through where people live, work, and play.” – @toddadkins

Recommended Resources:

Read Multiplication Today, Movements Tomorrow
Read 1,000 Churches

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by The Church.Digital: We’ve talked a lot here about the idea of multiplying church, which can be difficult to understand sometimes since the idea of multiplication is so, well, rare in the US church world. Even pre-2020, we’re lucky if we’re growing, most likely we’re flatlining, or even trending down. Even now in the foreseeable post-COVID future we are trending away, where Barna predicts 20% of churches shut down in the next 18 months, the idea of church multiplication seems a distant memory.

Or, maybe we’re just not doing it right? Have we overcomplicated the idea of church, and in the process designed something that actually prevented multiplication?

Enter Ed Love, Director of Multiplication for the Wesleyan Church. Ed, and the Wesleyan Church, has been wrestling with this issue for a while, and several years back hit the scripture again to discover the Wesleyan Church’s “essential ecclesiology” for church multiplication.

Healthy things multiply and through this essential ecclesiology from the Wesleyan Church, we’ve got an excellent blueprint towards Church as Platform, Microchurch, and even Digital Church Planting. What’s the ecclesiology look like? Dig into the conversation here, at The Church Digital Podcast.

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Source: PODCAST 102: Essential Ecclesiology Enabling Digital Church Planting

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Source: What Are Micro Churches?

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by NewChurches.com: In Episode 530 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss if it is better to launch online or in-person.

“What are your thoughts on launching fully online in the Spring of 2021 and then going to a physical launch for the church in the Fall? Is this a good idea? Is this a bad idea? Is it sustainable from Spring to Fall? What things need to be in place prior to doing some of it? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages to doing it? And would you recommend doing it considering the presence of COVID and likely the ongoing continued presence of COVID at that time?”

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Why it is important to have some in-person gathering
The benefits to launching small

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“If Spring looks like what most the states look like now, then yes it is a great idea as long as you have groups and those groups meet in person.” – @toddadkins
“You are competing against anybody in the world, not just the church down the street that you can get to, because I can get to any church online.” – @toddadkins
“The thing that is really rising to the surface in the midst of COVID is the importance of local connections, of neighboring with one another, and the importance of lingering and being incarnational and contextual in your neighborhood. That is what is the stickiest thing,” – @danielsangi
“If you are launching physically in groups before you launch online, then I think it could work. But, if launching fully online in the Spring means that is when you get started and you are hoping to do a physical launch in the Fall, I think you should actually flip it.” – @danielsangi
“Push online as much as you can, because as a church planter your greatest strength is the time you can spend building into people and discipling people because you don’t have all the other baggage a traditional church may have.” – @danielsangi
“Honestly, until COVID is done and everything goes back to some semblance of normal, I would throw away the whole launch large strategy.” – @danielsangi
“How do you launch strong and small? You can be sustainable.” – @danielsangi

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by NewChurches.com: In Episode 528 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss the dilemma that many multisite churches are facing.

“There seems to be a common question between my multisite friends. We have two locations and they are both meeting at schools and because of COVID we have shrunk back to one location and we are doing small outside services. Likewise, even some of the very large multisite churches are closing locations and collapsing them back to their sending campus. Do you think that this is permanent given renting from schools will likely change, and, if so, what can we do to build momentum when conventional growth metrics are free-falling? FYI, we do online and get pretty solid engagement and reach, It’s been great to reach this new audience, but how do we make sure that we don’t leave our established people behind. Thanks for the steady hand in difficult times.”

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

What challenges churches that rent their meeting space are facing
How churches can continue to connect with established members

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“I’ve talked to several churches whose schools are already telling them they can’t meet there.” – @toddadkins
“Someone may be attending your small group, but they are attending a different church online in the morning.” – @toddadkins
“There are going to be a lot of church planters, house churches, and smaller churches that come out of this.” – @toddadkins
“With the economy being the way it is, and how COVID has affected it, sooner or later there are going to be businesses who want the rental income.” – @danielsangi
“I do believe that multisite is still a valid and valuable strategy alongside church planting.” – @danielsangi
“What our city needs is healthy, thriving, growing, and multiplying churches that are reaching the lost.” – @toddadkins
“You can’t forsake or neglect the in-person or real life phone call or shoulder tap.” – @danielsangi

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by NewChurches.com:

In Episode 523 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss house church planting.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Why house churches might become more popular
How cultural disruption might change church practices

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“There is a context, a place if you will, for nimble, small, and rapidly reproducing right now. And that’s the spot where church planters find themselves.” – @edstetzer
“I think a house church can have all of the biblical marks of a church.” – @edstetzer
“Remember that house churches are foreign feeling to most people in the United States, Canada, and most of the English speaking western world.” – @edstetzer
“People may start becoming more accustomed to smaller, more intentional gatherings.” – @edstetzer
“Cultural disruption is always a gospel opportunity.” – @edstetzer
“Sometimes a cultural disruption leads to a disruption of a common practice, and one of our common practices is we gather in large groups for worship.” – @edstetzer
“We could see an aversion to large groups, and an openness to small groups.” – @edstetzer

Recommended Resources:

Listen to Episode 521: I’m Planting a Church This Month
Listen to the Stetzer Leadership Podcast
Read “Marks of a Biblical Church” by Ed Stetzer
Read “Counting People Who Attend House Churches” by Ed Stetzer

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by Jeff Reed: With church buildings closing and thousands of churches frantically broadcasting their Sunday services online for the first time in hopes of giving people an option, I have to wonder.

Why?

I mean, if we’re going to do a big production in the building on Sunday, I get it, let’s not waste all that effort and resources. Let’s magnify our reach and broadcast that message online. Technology can be a wonderful force multiplier. It can also be a wonderful disrupter and sometimes, disruption is a good thing.

Now we’re being disrupted by COVID-19 too and it’s forcing us all to get creative, and this presents a wonderfully disruptive opportunity for Jesus’ Kingdom.

Here’s a few opportunities I see during this disruptive time:

1. We can decentralize

The prevailing model of church is so accustomed to doing ministry en-masse, but Jesus did much of His ministry with small groups of people. In fact, the smaller the group, the deeper the ministry. This is our time to trade crowds for connection. Even Jesus handled the feeding of the crowds by sub-grouping into smaller groups. We need to flip our ministry models to empowermore people to minister to others one-on-one. Jesus said where 2 or 3 are gathered He will be with us. If we can’t minister to crowds, that means we can’t centralize our leadership, our ministry, nor our care.

What if we de-centralized our leadership, ministry, and care and empowered fathers to pastor their families?
What if we created content for the kids and their parents to have creative times of learning the Bible together?
What if we wrote a home church manual that anyone could do?

We HAVE to let the people be the church, or it doesn’t get done. That’s a healthy disruption. Churches that are equipping the saints for the work of the ministry are winning big time right now.

2. We can digitize

I’m an early adopter of technology. I always enjoyed using Amazon Prime, Uber-eats, Netflix, and Microsoft Teams. This week it feels like I need them to survive. Each of these technologies have overnight taken over entire industries and created new ones.

Enter Church Online.

The online audience is not just the primary audience right now, it’s the only audience. Now people can interact in their homes with a church service instead of just consuming content.

What if we gave space during the message for people to pray in their homes by carving out 5 minutes in the livestream with some prayer prompts?
What if we asked people to take church selfies of their watch parties and included it in the livestream?
What if we took what we spend on powering the lights, HVAC, and subwoofers in our buildings to deliver pizza to those home watch parties?

3. We can go daily

Sunday is a big deal because, for some, that’s all we get. That puts a lot of weight on Sunday, it can be a lot of pressure. It’s like some families make a big deal about Thanksgiving dinner because it’s the only meal the family eats together the whole year (maybe that’s why it can be awkward). For other families, Sunday dinner is important because it’s the only time during the week the whole family is together.

If church on Sunday is all you get, you better make it awesome.

But what if you were like the Church in Acts where they met daily? Then the pressure’s off for Sunday.

What if we re-designed our church services to be every day in the home for 15-20 minutes?
What if we did a livestream of Bible reading in the morning every day from a different person?
What if we prayed together decentralized, and digitized, and daily in homes for 5 minutes at a certain time?

4. We can delight

People don’t expect much right now, the virus is shutting everything down and all we hear is negative. Anyone doing anything, let alone creative, out of the box thinking making a positive difference sticks out like crazy. We can trade anger for action.

What if we combated isolation and took the church staff that now doesn’t have Sunday responsibilities and re-deploy them to call people of the church to ask how they can pray for them?
What if we did a drive through food drive for the vulnerable and livestreamed it?
What if we added all the toilet paper that is in storage to the food and donated care packages to foster homes?
What if we sent out easter egg hunt kits for resurrection Sunday and included photos/videos sent from families in the livestream?

Experiment! Shake it up! It’s better than nothing and if it doesn’t work, you can blame it on the virus. It seems like that’s what everyone else is doing!

Source: Opportunities During this Disruptive Time

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