Leadership, Uncategorized
Transition is something we are almost always uncomfortable with. Change is hard for everyone. It’s no different in ministry. At the same time, it’s inevitable for growth and progress. If a ministry is alive, it will change. Yet one casualty of change can be...
Church Planting, Discipleship, Group Life, Missional, Uncategorized
This blog post is adapted from an excerpt from my latest book, The Church Planting Journey. In any healthy ministry, there needs to be a strategy in place for passing discipleship along from one person to the next. Here I cover a few of my most important...
Church Planting, Uncategorized
I’ve teased you for some time about this one, but the wait is over. The Church Planting Journey is now available for purchase in print on Amazon! Over 40 years ago, as a young church planter, God met me in my hour of need. In the midst of struggling to plant a church...
Leadership, Uncategorized
by guest blogger Jonathan LaBarge As we have a Lord who is found out on the water, your church becomes something of a laboratory for stepping out of the boat. Your experiments live out Peter’s question: “Lord, if it’s you, call me out upon the...
