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Geoff Surratt has served as the Pastor of Church Planting at Saddleback Church and Pastor of Ministries at Seacoast Church. He is the co-author of The Multisite Church Revolution and The Multisite Church Roadtrip as well as the author of Ten Stupid Things that Keep Churches from Growing. Geoff blogs here and Twitters here, but he juggles for no man.
My heart as a parent breaks for Rick and Kay Warren in the tragic loss of their son Matthew. While the pain of losing a child is almost incomprehensible to me, I can’t imagine having that loss splashed across the home page of every leading news website. And piled on top are the idiots who [...]
How do you help people make meaningful connections when they attend your church? One of the most frustrating things in finding a church has been figuring how to connect with other attenders. My wife had a great idea the other day and I wanted to pass it on before it slips into the abyss forgetfulness [...]
One of the most common questions I get is, “How do we know when to close a campus or a church plant?” This is really hard to answer since every situation is unique and every church has a different definition of success, but I thought I’d share the thoughts I sent to the last church who [...]
I loved building with Legos when I was a kid. (If I could make a living at it I’d probably still spend most of my time playing with Legos) My experience, however, was different from most. Instead of pre-designed kits, every year at Christmas my parents gave me a bag of miscellaneous Lego parts. (They [...]
Measuring The Orchard examines the emptiness of a ministry focused almost entirely on growing a single church, describes the natural life cycle all churches go through, and offers a better scorecard for defining success in ministry. Geoff Surratt lays out a “begin with the end in mind” view of church health and growth that leads [...]
On a recent trip to Italy my wife and I attended Sunday mass at two 14th century cathedrals in Venice. (Full disclosure: We attended the first mass because we wanted be in a worship service on Sunday and the second because we wanted to get in free to see the cathedral.) Since neither of us speaks [...]
Have you ever thought about how much fun it must have been to be one of Jesus’ disciples? We tend to focus on the tough stuff (rebuke, poverty, martyrdom), but sometimes we miss the appeal of a three-year road trip with the Son of God. They learned together, traveled together, and faced death together. In [...]
Jesus final instruction to his followers was “go and make disciples”. Since he didn’t give them a syllabus, a PowerPoint or a lesson guide for 2000 years we’ve been wrestling with the “what” question of disciple making; What does a disciple need to know? We’ve tried catechisms, Sunday School classes and video curriculum to convey [...]
Lance Armstrong has been one of the most inspiring heroes of our generations. Against all odds he beat cancer that had metastasized to his brain and lungs, he founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation which has become one of the top ten groups funding cancer research in the US and he won the Tour De France [...]
There seems to be a conference every week and many of them seem to be very similar. At most you might be able to attend one or two conferences a year, so why should you consider attending Exponential? Let me give you my top three reasons: 1. Exponential is actually multiple conferences Exponential is a [...]
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