Category: Philosophy of Ministry
Redeeming Rural
Home > Blog > Redeeming Rural Redeeming Rural By Josh Laxton A couple weeks ago the Laxton house couldn’t agree on a movie for family movie night, so my wife clicked on Hoosiers. Now, a movie as old as Hoosiers certainly raised my children’s eyebrows—and even complaints—since they weren’t born […]
PODCAST 050: Biblical Function of a Digital-Only Church, Part 1
by Jeff Reed: Can a digital-only expression of church hold up to the Biblical standard of a church? This is the question that we, here at The Church Digital and Stadia Church Planting, are wrestling with. Can you create community online? Sure! Can you worship? Of course! Can you pray digitally? […]
Outside the Box Multisite Church Launch
Home > Blog > Outside the Box Multisite Church Launch Outside the Box Multisite Church Launch By Bryan Rose If becoming a multisite church, or adding another campus, is on your vision-radar right now, chances are you are primarily thinking in terms of Sunday morning worship. Most multisite church expressions […]
How Do You Create a Culture of Sending
Home > Blog > How Do You Create a Culture of Sending How Do You Create a Culture of Sending By New Churches Team Every church starts as a church plant. And often they start with a lot of missional energy that gets lost over time. Sometimes many years go […]
Dreaming of A Digital Church
By Jeff Reed: Exciting news for Church Online fans out there. I (Jeff) have accepted a role with Stadia Church Planting as Director of Digital Church Plants. For Stadia & The Church Digital, we’re defining a “digital church” as a church that plants/launches/starts virtually with an option to maybe one […]
Episode 461: 5 Ways We Need to Invest in Church Planting, Part 2
by New Churches.com: In Episode 461 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed continue to discuss five ways we need to invest in church planting. In This Episode, You’ll Discover: Why we need to start finding the next generation of church planting leaders What other approaches to church planting […]
How Are We Going to Replace the Steeples?
by Jeff Reed: It occurred to me the other day that churches, for the most part, don’t have steeples anymore. Well, some do. Ironically, the church where my family and I currently attend and serve does have a steeple. It’s an older historical church building in the heart of Coral […]
Three Phases of Churches Planting Churches
Home > Blog > Three Phases of Churches Planting Churches Three Phases of Churches Planting Churches By Ed Stetzer It seems for the last four decades or so, church communities have been talking about planting other churches. But much of that time was spent talking without taking action. The difference […]
How Meetings Can Clarify Vision
by Shawn Lovejoy: Meetings are used for many things. One missed opportunity I see in many meetings is failing to communicate, clarify or rally around vision. In my book Be Mean About The Vision: Preserving and Protecting What Matters, I reveal the most crucial vision questions; and I’m giving them to […]
PODCAST 044: Jate Earhart & Constructing a Digital Church
by Jeff Reed: This Episode of The Church Digital Podcast may challenge some established norms. If so, that’s cool. They probably need to be challenged. A small, but growing number of physical churches are finally seeing that community can be created in virtual spaces, and now more than ever churches […]