Strategic Planning I

You know how there are some things that are natural strengths, and others you have to develop and fight to learn and do well?  Strategic planning is not a natural strength of mine, but it’s important – personally (to mature it really helps to have a strategic plan), in church planting (to establish a healthy…

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Why Not? Well, Lots of Reasons…

Recently I was with a guy who has to raise money. He’s got a great heart, and a very fuzzy vision – lack of clarity on what his goals are and how he’ll accomplish them. His answer to why people would give money to what he’s doing was, “Why wouldn’t they give money to what…

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Coaching

I’ve been spending a few days in Melbourne, Florida at a church planter’s retreat, where I’m getting to do some teaching and coaching for about 50 church planters and their wives. I love doing this.  Church planters are typically visionaries and entrepreneur types, and are inspiring to hang out with. I love it that I’ve…

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Amazing Churches … For Christians

The Barna Group recently reported the results of a 2010 study in which they discovered that very few people admitted to any change in their religious beliefs or practices over the last five years.  The group experiencing the least amount of change were those over 26.  And more people reported moving away from Christianity than…

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The Makings Of A Church Planter (6)

This is the last post I’m doing on what I see as the critical characteristics of a successful church planter. You can read the first five by clicking on the “Church Planting” label in the categories on the right. So what’s number six?  You must have support, loads of support. What kind of support? The…

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