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A large percentage of church planters are newcomers to the places where they start churches. They arrive as protagonists, with a goal of transforming the spiritual climate of their adopted communities. This is admirable, yet often short sighted. While many communities are new, and have no past tense, other places where churches are needed are [...]

I am self-professed demographic geek. By seventh grade I was already analyzing and interpreting people groups and communities. Nothing like winding down the evening with a few good info-graphics, right? Laugh away — My sociology training left me with an orientation that has been an incredible useful church planting tool. Let me share a few [...]

In the San Francisco Bay Area, leaders with whom I connect are working together to frame a more comprehensive and unified approach to starting new churches. For several years now, we have been fashioning aspects of a church planting system, but we are newly implementing it as a whole.  

The system exists to start as [...]

Abraham the faithful lived during an exceptionally transitional era of human history. It was a time between the times, when so many people had begun accumulating enough personal possessions that it was difficult to live the nomadic, hunter/gatherer lifestyle that the world had experienced in previous generations. The word for “rich” used of Abraham’s socio-economic status [...]

The holy day we celebrate this month is about the Son who submitted himself to incarnation, choosing to live on earth as the image of the invisible God. The word incarnation carries with it the implication that something unseen takes on form. The Word became flesh and lived among humanity. At its best, planting a [...]

The church world “is often motivated by a culture of success. We recruit, fund, celebrate, propagate and evaluate based on predictable, measureable success rates.” I wrote these words in my October blog post “Out Of The Algorithm, Into The Mystery!“. Our propensity for favorable outcomes has various repercussions, one of which is an unintentional, but [...]

There are two great tasks for the Church in North America today. First, we must do everything we already know how to do to reach people we already know how to reach, multiply disciples, and start authentic communities of faith. The second great task for the Church is to address the present future by prayerfully [...]