Tag: Peyton Jones Blog
Leadership Conversations with Mac Lake
by Peyton Jones: This week I have something new for you. Last month I was able to sit down with my good friends and great leader, Mac Lake. In this conversation, we talk about the call to church planting, building a team, and maximizing your team’s calling. I’m keeping this […]
What Kind of Church Should You Plant?
This week Peyton Jones and Pete Mitchell sit down to talk about What kind of church you should plant. To get straight to listening click here and to download in iTunes click here. There are a lot of factors that go into this topic. You might be thinking of it solely as what kind […]
Asparagus, Church Planting, and You
by Peyton Jones: Let’s just file this away into the “things we don’t ever talk about” folder. We say it’s real, incessant, and painful, but we don’t train our people for it. If you’re getting ready to come into the enemy’s territory, he’s waiting to meet you.In WW2, Hitler’s German forces […]
It Feels Good When Your Team Is Winning
by Peyton Jones: The leaders of microchurches don’t tend to do all of the heavy lifting. The burden is shared like the moving a piece of heavy furniture. The same piece of furniture that threatened to break the back of a solo lifter reduces to the weight of a peanut […]
Inventing the Longer Lasting Church Plant
by Peyton Jones: The race to create a longer lasting light bulb didn’t happen overnight. Thomas Edison poured in thousands of hours through trial and error to deliver a household item to the world that most of us take for granted. Relentless and determined, his constant mantra to his tireless […]
The Big Day
by Peyton Jones: So you’re ready for the big day? No you’re not. Like rushing your wife to the hospital when you get the phone call from the adoption agency, or your wife’s water breaks, you’re never ready.The first thing that I can tell you about the launch day is to […]
Location Location Location
by Peyton Jones: I’ve looked at some pretty weird places to hold church. I once took my leaders to a trucker stop and they thought I was crazy. When they asked me where the childcare would go, I pointed at the ball pit over at the Burger King. One of the […]
What are You Launching?
by Peyton Jones: What are you going to do? You should have answered the question early on. Why is it always the same jack-in-the-box church that pops up all the time?Church history doesn’t remember the guys who just unpacked an Ikea prefab church in the middle of another neighborhood like a […]
Church Planting With No Worship Leader
This week Peyton Jones and Pete Mitchell sit down to talk about Church Planting With No Worship Leader. To get straight to listening click here and to download in iTunes click here. A lot of us have a preconceived notion in our mind of how our worship time should be set up. For many […]
Church Planting with no team
This week Peyton Jones and Pete Mitchell sit down to talk about Church Planting with no team. To get straight to listening click here and to download in iTunes click here. I talk a lot about the importance of having a team around you when you start your church plant. In fact, I recently […]