Church Planting, New Church Planting
Author Peter Drucker, in his book The Daily Drucker, coined a brilliant phrase: “the future that has already happened.” His point is that it’s not generally helpful to make predictions because we can rarely be accurate about those. The people who are really effective...
Church Planting, Leadership
There are always many people we could be developing. Every single person is made in the image of God, has something to contribute to the Kingdom, and can grow further in their development. Given that reality, how do we choose who we should be working with and...
Church Planting, Missional
As you coach and develop more leaders, your ministry organization grows. This reality often creates challenges for leaders. They quickly find that what they’ve been doing successfully suddenly doesn’t work anymore. The senior leader who has been developing other...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
New, smaller churches grow not by being supermarkets that offer everything under the sun, but by being specialty shops. I remember the motto we used in the first church I planted when it was still small: What we do, we do well. We don’t do everything, but what we do...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
Back when I lived and pastored in Rancho Cucamonga (yes, there really is city by that name), I happened across a Chamber of Commerce brochure for the city. It was one of those propaganda pieces that communicates: “This is the best place in the world to work, live,...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
Missional church planting requires a different way of thinking about church planting. The starting point is not “how can I grow my church.” The starting point is “how can our small band of believers bless this community.” Church growth is more of a byproduct. That’s...
