I received an email this morning from my good friend Phil Peterson asking about resources for a church planting initiative.I’d appreciate your help. The short-answer is I’m looking for recommended contacts, resources, ideas on church-planting models, criteria for candidates, and whatever else you think would help me coordinate our church-planting initiative.
Here’s my response to Phil with links to this blog. I hope you find it helpful…
- 3 Characteristics of Reproducing Churches - Work on being a reproducing church, not just developing a plan/process to start new churches.
- Church Planters Need All 3: Coach + Mentor + Supervisor - Think through the support you will provide to church planters and what kind of accountability is necessary.
- Plant Churches that Plant Churches - Since you are looking at planting multiple churches, they need to ask different questions.
- First Multiply Small Groups - Decide the importance of the worship service in the kinds of churches you will plant.
- First Make Disciples - If I were planting a church, here’s what I would do differently.
- The Multiplication Workshop in Bellevue – Nov 27-29, 2012 - Here’s a link to the training that I’ll be doing at CBC in November. I think you should consider sending your team to this.
- Who Should Plant Churches? - As you put together an application – here are some thoughts to consider first.
- Church Planting Insight #1 - Important to consider: “Those you start the church with are not those you grow the church with.”
- Missional Living: Lesson #19 - “Leaders must be accountable for disciplemaking.” This is a factor to consider in selecting church planters – have they actually been making any disciples?
- Parenting Behaviors: Talk and Pray - If you are going to be a “parent” congregation, you need to work on this one.
- 12 Month Process to Start New Churches - Here’s what I would recommend that you consider as part of your strategy!
- Washington State is 45th in Church Membership and Attendance - What are you ready to do here in Washington?
- Missional Movements Checklist - This is a good checklist to get you started.
- When to Start Worship Services - Make sure that worship services don’t begin until you have actually baptized new believers and the church planter is making disciples.
- How Coaching Benefits Church Planters and If You Are Planting a Church You Need a Coach! - Provide coaching for their church planters!
- The Multiplication Cycle™ - This is the process I use to train church planters.
- Thoughts on Church Planting - Here are some of my musings…
- Don’t Plant a Church! - Here’s another perspective to consider.
- What Stops Church Multiplication? - Don’t let this stop you.
- Top 20 Books on Church Planting - Read these books!
- Your Church Can Multiply - My colleague Dave White identifies 10 steps to multiply churches.
- Start Churches by Making Disciples - This is my mantra.
- Is Your Church Pregnant or Overweight? - Something for you to evaluate.
- Cookie Jars and Church Planters - If the church isn’t already making cookies – they don’t need to start any cookie jars.
- 7 Elements of Starting Churches - Some questions for you to consider.
- Church Planting: START HERE! - This is a good place to start!
- Creating a Church Planting Proposal - May help you in understanding the questions to ask church planters in preparing a plan.
- Developing a “Birth Plan” to Start New Churches - More good stuff to help you.
Today’s Missional Challenge: Take advantage of the links above to help you form your system and strategy to plant churches that plant churches!
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