Tag: church planting
Handling sexual abuse claims with church leadership. #METOO
by Peyton Jones: This week Pete Mitchell and I discuss how to handle sexual abuse claims with church leadership. To get straight to listening click here and to download in iTunes click here.This is a topic that has become more relevant in the past few months, being driven mainly from the entertainment and political industries, […]
Why Most Churches That Start Small…Stay Small
by Carey Nieuwhof: So…you want your church to grow, right? When I ask ministry leaders whether they want to see growth, almost every leader I’ve ever talked to says yes. Sure…there are some house church movements that want to stay small. And some long time or xenophobic churches have lost their appetite […]
CHURCH ZERO
by Peyton Jones: When Jesus ascended with His work unfinished, He knew that no one person was going to be able to follow in His wake. The five kitbags each represent a specific skillset necessary for a church leadership team, like a sapper, sniper, commando, Navy SEAL, and heavy weapons […]
Follow the Leader
by Peyton Jones: Paul was so inspired by Christ’s example of suffering, sacrifice, and death, that he imitated his Captain’s acts of heroism. In turn, he reproduced heroic men, and drew brave men to himself on his missionary journeys. A good leader who inspires courage in others cannot be underestimated. […]
Super Teams
by Peyton Jones: The Avengers rocked the box office because the producers knew that superhero team ups offer much more than the spotlight on a solo hero. An interplay of highly specialized skills is necessary to slam evil, and advance the cause of Christ. If that’s the case with Superheroes, […]
How to Transform a Community
By Rich Perez: One of the great and worthy causes of church planting is the desire to influence neighborhoods and cities for the gospel of Jesus. We long to shape the hearts of our friends, families, and neighbors, and by doing so to shape the systems and structures of our cities. […]
He Blinded Me With Science
by Peyton Jones: Continuing from my previous blog, when you look at Paul, there was no “i” in his name, or in his methods. Paul recruited teams of diverse leaders. Like a wise master builder (or contractor), Paul was able to draft plumbers, framers, roofers, and electricians so to speak when […]
Five New Reasons Why You DO Want to Launch that New Church or Campus
by Warren Bird: What did leaders from more than 1,500 new churches or multisite campuses tell us about what they’ve learned and experienced? “8 Launch Wins,” our newly released report gives you wisdom from comparing various approaches and circumstances. Here is the infographic from the richly illustrated report, which is […]
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 […]