Community Patterns for the Church: The 7 C’s
Planting a church is in some ways like launching a new marriage: We set new patterns in life. Personal patterns for the marriage; community patterns for the church.
Category: How To’s
Is There a Place for Announcements? 5 Ways to Make Them Work
Ask many church leaders and they’ll tell you, announcements sometimes feel like a necessary evil—most don’t want to do them but know they have to. Is there really a good place for announcements?
How to Grow a Church: Choose Your Leadership Model
Articles, How To's, Leadership
As you consider how to grow a church, which leadership model you adopt makes a big difference.
Let Your Church Grow!
My church growth skills were limited to working hard and staying there five years. Like me, perhaps you need to learn how to let your church grow.
Video – Ed Stetzer: Church Planting 101
Ed Stetzer earned his PhD in “Church Planting Systems,” so that qualifies him as a bona fide expert. Call it church planting 101.
How to Start a Church: Church Membership for Dummies
It’s a pretty bad situation: We’ve been doing church for 20 years, and we still don’t have a clue about determining church membership. File this article under how to start a church, and then write down: “Forget church membership.”
Titus: An Apostolic Church Planting Manual
Every time I put down a church planting book exhausted, I took up Titus and found refreshment. That’s how we planted our church—with Titus.
How Church Planters Can Evaluate Potential Leaders
Articles, How To's, Leadership
How can church planters evaluate potential leaders? Whether you lead an athletic organization, church, business, nonprofit or in education, these principles are for you.
How Your Church Plant Can Reach the Nations Across the Street
You don’t have to travel internationally in order for your church plant to reach the nations—sometimes you just have to cross the street.
New to Church Planting? 5 Things You Should Know and Do
If you’re new to church planting, please know that it’s not for the faint of heart.
