Planting Space

Pre-Launch should be a time of dreaming and strategy, vision and planning. Most planters are big on the dream and small on the details and implementation. That is how it should be, as most people who are ‘maintainers’ don’t have big enough dreams, or at least the moxie to go plant a church.
That being said, [...]

I just never get tired of top 10 lists.
Here’s a great one with some insight into church leadership. Of course they don’t all apply, but the top 3 really struck me:

[New Leaders] persist in still doing their old jobs, rather than their new ones. As a result, they don’t delegate; they burn themselves out while [...]

In our recent survey of new churches currently in years 2-5, we found that the healthiest new churches had launch teams over 40 people. Click here to see the stats. This is the final segment in this series of blogs. Here are links to the first three.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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In our recent survey of new churches currently in years 2-5, we found that the healthiest new churches had launch teams over 40 people. Click here to see the stats.
You have a unique opportunity during pre-launch that you will never have again in the life of the church. You won’t be writing a [...]

In our recent survey of new churches currently in years 2-5, we found that the healthiest new churches had launch teams over 40 people.  Click here to see the stats.  In pt. 1 of this post, I talked about what a launch team is and boundaries to set for it.  At Passion 4 Planting we [...]

In our recent survey of new churches currently in years 2-5, we found that the healthiest new churches had launch teams over 40 people.  Click here to see the stats.
Building a launch team may be the single most important thing you do in starting a new church.  Its also the one of the most difficult.  [...]

At Passion 4 Planting we recently conducted a survey of church planters who are currently in Years 2 - 5 of the life of the new church. Here’s what we found:
Churches who had a launch team of 41 or more people had an average opening Sunday attendance of 340 people and were more likely [...]

I had the privilege of hearing Rick Warren speak this afternoon at Ebeneezer’s, a great coffeehouse owned by National Community Church. Among all the wisdom he shared with a room full of pastors was the statement that people grow through commitment, not to commitment. In other words, if you want people to grow, [...]

Have you ever had anyone in your church who comes to you and says, “I’m just not being fed. I’d really like to see…”? We all have. Honestly I can say that I didn’t like the church I planted. I would have preferred the sermons to have been 45 minutes long [...]

So yesterday I shared that God can, and does in fact, bring different numbers to different church plants. This is very true. We’ve worked with plants that launch with less than 100 people at launch, and plants that launch well over 500 people. I can’t tell you how many people God is [...]