Church Planting is tough and always carries a potential of risk and catastrophic failure. So what are the top ten mistakes made by leaders as they plant new churches? These are the mistakes I have seen repeated time after time with the church planters I have trained and coached.
January 23, 2012
Practicing Gospel Community in Your Family
by Scott Thomas
The most common metaphor for Christian community is “family” and “household” (Rom. 12:10; Gal. 6:10; Eph. 2:19; 1 Peter 4:17). It dawned on me that we rarely apply this to one’s marriage and family. I curiously wondered why we fail to act in families as a community of Christians when it seems so obvious that [...]
January 21, 2012
The Good Fight of Faith
by Rice Broocks
It was one of those unusual moments in ministry. I received a phone call inviting me to come conduct Bible studies for a Filipino fighter named Manny Pacquiao. He was scheduled to fight Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas last November at the MGM Grand Hotel. Pasquiao is an 8-time world champion as well as a Congressman [...]
January 20, 2012
Small Beginnings, Big Opportunities
by Ralph Moore
After a very slow start a Japanese language church plant is doing big things. We launched our entire Japanese language department as a church plant a few years ago. They languished until the pastor moved the congregation into a large house. Then they popped. In one year they launched three house churches in Honolulu. Three [...]
January 19, 2012
The Church Planting Super Site Is Here!
by Phil Spry
A new tool is now available to church planters. Go to www.churchplantingsupersite.com and see for yourself. When I began planting churches in the early 1970s I never saw a book on the subject. I have since discovered that there were some but without the internet they were impossible to find. The CPSS mission statement is [...]
January 17, 2012
Is Your Church Plant Making A Difference?
by Marcus Bigelow
Douglas Hubbard has written How to Measure Anything, Finding the Values of Intangibles in Business. While primarily written about business intangibles, I believe it has application to church planting as well. Traditionally we have measured the “Killer B’s” (buildings, butts and bucks). While those may be easiest, they may not be the most important measures. [...]
January 16, 2012
Church Starting And The Parting of Ways
by Linda Bergquist
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 [...]
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