Healthy Pastors Leading Health Churches
We recently caught up with Shawn Lovejoy between breakouts at Exponential. His new book, The Measure of Our Success, was debuted during the conference and we see it as one of the most important reads for Pastors in recent times. Shawn candidly and transparently shares from his own mistakes and issues a challenge to Pastors to determine … [Read more...]
This book is an important resource for men and women of all ages in all church contexts. By thinking about suffering as a process to participate in and actively embrace instead of a season to avoid, we can learn to recognize God’s hand in our lives, moving from discouragement to joy and peace that transcends adversity. “Planting a … [Read more...]
Several years ago my church, The Oaks Fellowship, was approached by a pastor of another congregation about turning his church into a campus of ours. I was asked to meet with the pastor to evaluate the opportunity and report back to The Oaks. The church had a great property and they didn’t owe much money, but the congregation had shrunk … [Read more...]
Testimony: What is the Best Model for Small Group Ministry? Interview with Doug Berry (Rock Harbor - Former SG Pastor, Director of Community Life and Currently is the Leadership Coach for Community Life) Doug Berry talks about his reaction to the question, "what is the best model for small group ministry?" He explains there … [Read more...]
In church planting circles we are more apt to look backwards rather than forward when talking about models, methods, forms, and expressions. Besides, it is this concept of reverse-engineering which is the topic of many books on church planting as leaders reflect on what worked, and worked wildly well. To propose a theoretical framework is … [Read more...]
This is the 18th (and final) installment in a series based on my adventures in planting a church. For more information on the series or to see what else we have walked through, check out the original post. My hope is to use this series to develop a resource for planters as they are thinking about diving in or need to process their … [Read more...]
Joshua Meyer is currently planting Cause Church in Clinton, Iowa and they are launching this week, Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012. How did God call you to plant Cause Church? About three years ago I was standing at my sink washing dishes and I heard in my mind: “You are done”. I called my wife, asked her to come home from work, … [Read more...]
Launching Churches are becoming more and more prevalent across the United States. In my work with these church starts, I have seen many grow from zero to over four hundred in six to twelve months, using the strategy of launching large. In a southern town with a population of one hundred and sixty thousand people, I worked with a church … [Read more...]
I am passionate about helping you start a church from scratch that will reach as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, in the power of the Holy Spirit. I want to provide you with everything you need to Launch Large – a concept that stands in contradiction to most traditional church planting thinking. In today’s culture, a … [Read more...]
Grace Hills Church is eleven Sundays old, officially, and about eight months old, unofficially. And we’re in trouble. If we don’t do something, all of our effort will be in vain and all hope of planting the kind of church Jesus had in mind will be lost. No, we’re not out of money. God has provided every step of the way. No, … [Read more...]
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