Feeling Stuck? Ideation Is a Path Forward
Ideation is the act of forming ideas. Ideation isn’t satisfied with ideas alone. Its main purpose is to move ideas from conception to implementation.
Category: How To’s
The Coming Advent Season Is About Waiting—Church Planters Know All About It!
In the Advent season we learn about waiting. Waiting is painful; it brings anxiety.
A Worship Leaders Guide to Surviving Christmas
Surviving Christmas starts with some fresh perspectives to help in your worship planning this Christmas.
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.
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.
