By NewChurches.com: In Episode 564 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss things that established churches and pastors can learn about the church planting stage.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

How flexibility and agility benefit church plants
Why all churches need entrepreneurial leaders

 Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“Every church plant is going to be an established church and every multisite church is an established church.” – @danielsangi
“You don’t want to hold the label church plant forever.” – @danielsangi
“One of the biggest things they can learn is flexibility.” – @toddadkins
“Churches that were able to adapt and be nimble were the ones who leveraged what happened with COVID.” – @danielsangi
“It’s the approach and attitude of a startup.” – @toddadkins
“When you look at organizational life cycles, church plants that fail lack entrepreneurial leadership. Established churches that grow old and stale lack entrepreneurial leadership.” – @danielsangi
“Established churches that are growing have those entrepreneurial leaders.” – @danielsangi

Recommended Resources:

Listen to Episode 560: Organizational Life Cycles

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By Ken Adams: I am a man who lives by a plan. The truth is, I plan out just about everything. I have an annual life plan. I make a monthly plan, and I try to consistently execute a weekly plan. I know a thing or two about having a plan. I think having a plan is good, but one thing the Lord has taught me is that I need to write my plans in dry erase maker, not permanent marker.

Proverbs 19:21 says,

“Many are the plans in the mind of man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.”

Plans and Purpose

The Lord is not against planning. In fact, I believe it is good stewardship and good life management to live by a plan. The point however, is that the Lord’s purpose for your life always trumps your planning. Your plan might need to change in order for the Lord’s purpose to be accomplished. God’s purpose for your life, no matter what it might be, is always better than whatever plan you originally concocted.

I often share with people that when the Lord made it clear to me that I was to further my biblical training by going to seminary, I made a few things clear to Him. I made sure the Lord knew that I did not plan to be a senior pastor. I did not plan to be in a Baptist church, and I did not plan to minister in the South. Guess what happens when you tell the Lord your plans?

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For the last thirty one years, I have been a senior pastor in a Baptist church in the South. “Many are the plans in the mind of man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that stands.”

I can’t tell you how thankful I am that the Lord’s purpose trumped my plans. The last thirty one years have been the ride of a lifetime and I am so glad that the Lord’s purpose superseded my plans. Going to seminary was a good plan, but the Lord knew I needed to be a pastor in the denomination I grew up in near the town in which I was raised. God knew what I didn’t know and His purpose for me was so much better than my plan.

His Purpose

As you think about your life, I hope you have a plan. I believe the only thing worse than not fulling your plan is never having a plan to start with. I do hope, however, that your plan is not written in permanent marker. Don’t you just hate looking at a dry erase board that has been written on with a permanent marker? A dry erase board with permanent marker never is a mess.

Write out a plan, but write it in a way that the Lord can use it to bring about His purposes about in your life. He is the one you want making things permanent. He is the one you want making the final calls in your life. Write your plans with a dry erase marker so that the Lord can change them and rewrite them with His purpose in mind.

By Ken Adams

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by Rich Birch: Welcome back to another episode of the unSeminary podcast. We’re in for a treat today with Lee Coate, the executive pastor in charge of ministry and media at The Crossing Christian Church in Las Vegas.

The Crossing began in 2000 as a partner plant coming out of Canyon Ridge Christian Church. It started with a large plant team and has experienced steady growth since it’s inception. Every community has a unique culture, and that is certainly true for the city of Las Vegas. The staff works to learn from the culture in the larger community as well as intentionally implement the church culture as they grow and hire new staff. Lee talks with us today about how he navigates culture at The Crossing.

Navigate culture. // Lee views his role as a sort of culture engineer. You can often find him walking the halls and connecting with the 50 or so staff at The Crossing, trying to get people unstuck, dealing with conflict, or figuring out how to get more collaboration and communication across different departments. Throughout his days he’s navigating and cultivating culture to ensure that the staff keeps the church’s values at the forefront of their minds as they work, lead and make decisions.
Be aware of the culture in your city. // Las Vegas is unique culture-wise in that things are always being updated and renovated to something new. It’s been interesting to see this mentality influence the residents in the Las Vegas area where people get bored really quickly and need to be reengaged frequently. As a result, The Crossing’s ministry has to be designed to address that. The executive team spends a lot of time looking at how to move people from the streets to the seats, and then what the steps through that process look like. Even this process needs to be refreshed fairly often. At The Crossing they are constantly reengineering the top of their “engagement funnel” as far as a growth plan in order to find new ways to keep people engaged and get them into community.
A unique twist on the engagement funnel. // One example of how The Crossing invites people to connect with the church and each other is through their Discover process. In Discover, visitors have the chance to meet the pastor and are taught the six core values of the church in a creative way that does not include sitting in a classroom for an extended period of time. Instead people take a tour of the campus, experiencing brief presentations at different stops which coordinate with the church’s values.
Guard your church’s culture. // Those six core values are constantly reinforced among the staff as well. The larger you get as a team and as a church, the more intentionality somebody needs to have towards culture. This is where Lee comes in. Each week he holds a Monday Morning Meeting with the people on his side of the org chart which is all about culture rather than “business”. During this 45-60 minute block, they discuss anything from articles or podcasts to books they are reading together. Whatever they are talking through, Lee is intentional about linking it back to the church’s core values, using this time to reinforce what The Crossing is all about. These practices are especially important with new hires coming in where the culture needs to be communicated from day one.
Learning in tragedies. // Even with all efforts towards intentionality and strategy in making decisions, particularly to help in the community, The Crossing learned during the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that they had to put some of those philosophies aside. During these times, people just want to have something to do and they need you to help them with that, even if it’s only delivering water to a fire station. Be prepared to set aside your desire to be strategic, and help people with the emotional and spiritual needs they have to respond and help during tragedies, even in small ways.

You can learn more about The Crossing at their website www.thecrossinglv.com. You can also email Lee at lee@thecrosslv.com.

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Lightning Round

Helpful Tech Tools // 15Five Software

Ministries Following // Mariners Church and Rooted

Influential Book // An Unhurried Leader: The Lasting Fruit of Daily Influence by Dan Fadling, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Inspiring Leader // Barack Obama

What you do for fun // Run, Read, Travel, Coach/consult other churches

Contact // email at lee@thecrossinglv.com

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