Blog Posts
Resisting Spiritual Colonialism & Ambulance Chasing
By Daniel Im: For this month’s segment, Ed and I had the privilege of talking with Mark Jobe, Lead Pastor of New Life Community Church. New Life currently has over 20 locations in the Chicago-land area. Replanting and Restarting Having successfully launched 25 locations around Chicago, 14 of which were restarts, […]
Why Gifting ISN’T Enough
by Peyton Jones: Church planting is the spiritual equivalent of Boot Camp. You know why they have Boot Camp right? It’s to weed out the sissies. You’ve got to have grace, grit, and gumption to stay on and stick it out as a planter. You need stamina. My biggest fear […]
Healthy Church Growth: Programs vs. Path
Today’s post is written by Tony Morgan, Founder of The UnStuck Group. I’ve observed something interesting in healthy, growing churches over the last several years. The ones experiencing the most healthy growth tend to approach discipleship as a path. The leaders spend time thinking on how to best help people […]
Top DIY Church Website Options
by Patrick Bradley: If you’re on a budget and find WordPress confusing, there are several other DIY church website options. I’ve leaned into this a little harder recently because I continue to get calls for help from confused pastors who just can’t figure out their WordPress sites. I know all […]
Five Ways to Fight Discouragement When You Want to Quit
By Dustin Neeley: There is a reason why you hear pastors say that want to resign every Monday morning – because it is often true. In some ways, this is even more true for church planters. In addition to the inherent stresses and struggles of ministry, most planters also carry the additional burdens […]
Church Planting & Differentiation
by Ralph Moore: Every new business needs to differentiate itself from all others. Else, why the need for a new business? Church planting necessitates differentiation. These days, being different may open otherwise hostile hearts and minds. We face a rising generation more interested in healing hurts and sustaining resources than they […]
Multisite Churches Are Training the Next Generation of Pastors
by Dave Travis: Pastoral training models are constantly evolving. In our continuing series (link to the previous here, here, and here) of nuggets discovered in our soon-to-be released report from Leadership Network/Portable Church Industries, we found that multisite congregations are 2.5 times more likely to have trained either a new campus […]
Three Essentials for an Attractional Church Plant
By Drew Hyun: Over the past 40 years, the Christian church in America has been deeply impacted by the attractional church movement, a movement that emphasized for churches to be relatable and effective in reaching the unchurched. These attractional churches conducted services and programs in such a way that people would […]
5 Ways Your Parking Lot Might be Holding Back the Redemptive Potential of Your Church
by Rich Birch: Believe it or not, your parking lot could be the thing that is holding back the potential of your church. In fact, your church might not be living up to its total calling because of what is happening at the parking lot. We call this site unSeminary. […]
Stepping Off The Time Machine
by Peyton Jones: Originally from America, I embarked for the most unchurched part of the UK where I served as a Pastor/Evangelist/Church Planter for 12 years. It prepared me for just about anything. Recently, a Polish photographer took photos in Wales’s capital city, Cardiff on a Friday night. I’ve tried to […]