Applying NCD growth forces to church planting

Applying NCD growth forces to church planting

Many of you are familiar with NCD and the principles that underlie their process: the six growth forces.  I’ve been wondering how those growth forces apply to church planting, and I’ll be writing a blog series on that.  But for the sake of completeness, here are the...

Discipleship strategy: add one more thing

  Yesterday on my blog I talked about a ministry to the deaf. People go out to rural areas, find the deaf, and begin teaching them sign language so they can start to function and communicate. In the course of that process, many will respond to Jesus because these...

The power of sodalic structures

  Vocabulary lesson of the day: Sodalic: reaching out to start new ministries and churches Modalic: strengthening the ministries and churches that already exist Ministry lesson of the day: You need both. When we look at the way the early church functioned, we see...