Church Planting
Local Predicament: A Case Study (5)
I’ve had a short series the last few Thursdays on the importance of understanding your local predicament in constructing your church’s vision, and the strategy you’ll employ to see the vision become reality. The problem is that we tend to to look to success stories in other places, not realizing that where God has specifically…
Read MoreVault Speaker Featured…
Last week Exponential (the biggest church planting conference in the country) featured an interview with Scott Bloyer on their website and email newsletter. Scott is one of the speakers at this year’s Vault, and a church planter in Aurora, Colorado. Aurora is the town where the tragic movie theater shooting happened, and the article asks…
Read MoreBig Vault Announcements!
We had a meeting a couple weeks ago planning out some details of Vault, and we’re psyched for this October 15-17! Vault is our conference for church leaders who want to lead churches that truly reach un-churched non-Christians. Very few churches grow, and even those that do tend to grow by adding people from other…
Read MoreLocal Predicament: A Case Study (4)
I shared last week that when we moved to Las Vegas to start Verve, it was from a church in Virginia Beach with a successful small group ministry that had been the primary venue for discipleship. But we spent a year understanding the “local predicament” of Las Vegas, and realized that small groups would be…
Read MoreLocal Predicament: A Case Study (3)
I wrote last week about how we came from a successful church plant in Virginia Beach that had two essential elements in our strategy: worship services and small groups. We moved to Las Vegas to start another new church, assuming we would have the same strategy, but holding off our final decision until we had…
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