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 [...]
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Rick Warren quote of the day…
February 4th, 2008 No Comments
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, ask them [...]
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I Don’t Like My Church Plant
January 9th, 2008 No Comments
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 and purely expository. I [...]
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How Many??? pt 2
October 10th, 2007 No Comments
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 going to bring [...]
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How Many???
October 9th, 2007 No Comments
I am frequently asked by church planters “How many people should we expect?” The trouble is that every church plant is different. While there are some things we see consistently in church planting, God can, and in fact does, do different things through every church plant. There are many reasons churches that seem to do [...]
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