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Entries Tagged as 'General Church Planting'
I Don’t Like My Church Plant: The Need for Contextualization
May 10th, 2010 1 Comment
I spent a year in Northern Virginia at New Life Christian Church. The church planter, Brett Andrews, told me something that has always stuck in my memory. He said, “I don’t like my church plant.” This of course let to a befuddled reply of, “What do you mean, you don’t like your church plant.” Brett [...]
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Making a Pitch?
April 29th, 2010 1 Comment
Going to make a pitch for financial support, or perhaps making a presentation to community leaders? Make sure your PowerPoint doesn’t suck…
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Free Website for New Churches!
April 28th, 2010 No Comments
Is your church less than 12 months old? Do you have less than 300 regular attenders? If you answered yes to both of these questions you could qualify for a website free for 12 months! SiteOrganic is offering this great deal to church plants meeting the criteria. For more information on this offer, click HERE.
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The best of the best church planting blog posts
April 8th, 2010 No Comments
Here’s our weekly (okay, not weekly but more than monthly) round-up of church planting blog posts we think you should read: Going Deep with Sabbath Rest Acts 29 by JR Vassar Church planters are notorious for ignoring the Sabbath. JR provides solid biblical grounding for practicing the discipline of Sabbath as well as the practical [...]
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How to use your blog…
March 23rd, 2010 2 Comments
Wondering how you can use your blog? Make it useful… If it’s only an online brochure people might read it once but then never come back. But if it’s a source of information they need and desire, they’ll come back again and again. This morning I came across a video by Jason Fried of 37signals [...]
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What Do I Do At Launch Team Meetings?
March 19th, 2010 No Comments
By Guest Blogger: Doug Foltz Launch team meetings are DNA setting experiences. What you do and communicate at these meetings matter. This is where the vision and values of the church begin to be lived out. First and foremost, launch team meetings are vision casting experiences. The church planter should be planning out what will [...]
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A few of the best blogs we’ve read recently
March 16th, 2010 No Comments
Here are a few of the best blogs we’ve seen recently: Monday is for Missiology Lifeway by Ed Stetzer This entire series has been phenomenal. In this post, Ed focuses on the connection between missiology and soteriology. Mind Dump for Church Planters By Jimmy Britt This post really is a mind dump, but includes some great [...]
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How Do I Build Momentum With The Launch Team
March 12th, 2010 1 Comment
by Guest Blogger: Doug Foltz I worked with a planter once who had 40 adults on his launch team from day one. Three months later the number of people on the team had shrunk to 25 adults. What happened? The team lost momentum. Let’s start with the assumption that you will have at least 50 [...]
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Should I Use a Launch Team Covenant
March 10th, 2010 1 Comment
By guest blogger: Doug Foltz Launch Team Covenants (as well as membership covenants) are about one thing: Expectations. In part 3, I talked about filters for deciding who should be on the launch team. The first two filters were beliefs and values. Early on, beliefs and values are merely words on paper. Unless the staff, [...]
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