Church Planting

Over a few weeks I thought I’d share what I consider to be the six critical things you need before you start your church. Here’s one: Can you start a healthy church without funding?  Yes. There are stories of people who had no money and started a Bible study in their living room and it…

Vault is the conference our church puts on to teach church planting and how to do church for people who don’t like church.  We’re doing it again October 10-12, and I have a big announcement: John Burke is going to be doing three sessions at Vault!  John is the church planter and lead pastor of…

Over a few weeks I thought I’d share what I consider to be the six critical things you need before you start your church. Here’s one: 8 of 10 new churches die within three years. Of the churches that survive, 96% will never grow beyond 200 people.  Why? Lots of reasons, but one is that…

In the next few weeks I think I’m going to be making two BIG announcements about Vault, our church planting / doing church for people who don’t like church conference. It never occurred to me that Vault would be the kind of thing that would have big announcements, so these big announcements are as surprising…

Over a few weeks I thought I’d share what I consider to be the six critical things you need before you start your church. Here’s one: A few months ago my wife and I had to drive to an airport. We left our hotel, knowing exactly where we were going. One problem, we didn’t know…