by Neil Cole | Feb 24, 2020 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
Some have said that Paul only started 14 churches in his lifetime. If so that is a remarkable thing, but I tend to think there are more than 14. I would assume that there are some churches started that were not necessarily mentioned as churches in the NT. For...
by Dave Ferguson | Aug 8, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
The core competency of any movement is apprenticeship. Since I believe that Jesus came to start a movement this is very important so let me say it again: the core competency of any movement is apprenticeship. The very first action that Jesus took when catalyzing his...
by Linda Bergquist | May 17, 2012 | Church Planting
Only God can cause a church planting movement, but having wholly affirmed this, let’s acknowledge that some things help release movement and other things impede it. There are core spiritual components like serious prayer, the centrality of Scripture, obedience to...
by Dave Ferguson | Oct 8, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
This is the last of four questions that make up a “Blink Test” that determines whether your church has movement momentum or not. I would encourage you to answer the previous three questions (#1, #2, and #3) on this site before you answer this final one. This test is...
by Dave Ferguson | Jun 8, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink introduced us to a psychologist who learned to predict whether a marriage would last based on a few minutes of observing a couple. He also told about a tennis coach who knew when a player would double-fault before the racket even...