Church Development, Church Planting, New Church Planting
I love coaching church planters. I’ve been doing it for many years, and I’ve noticed certain similar stages along the way that most planters face. For the next few weeks on my blog, I’ve decided to walk church planters through essential area they need to think through...
Church Planting, New Church Planting
One of the first people who helped me understand the place of bi-vocational ministry in the future of the church was Mark Platt. He started a lot of church plants in Northern California using bi-vocational people: plumbers, piano tuners, window washers, house...
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, 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...
