Archive for May 12th, 2008
Monday Links
Monday, May 12th, 2008America’s top reproducing churches. Check it.
21 differences between church plants that grow fast and those that struggle. Check it.
SL shares his most important church Sundays. Check it.
Making announcements visitor friendly. Check it.
DF: Tim Keller on international church planting. Check it.
AJ: Apostles and church planters should pray more. Check it.
Lon [...]
Choosing Excellence
Monday, May 12th, 2008Part One: Striving For Excellence
In part one I tried to describe our need to strive for excellence wherever we find ourselves (budget limitations, ministry circumstances, etc) because ultimately we are living for an audience of one.
Priorities
In one sense we must choose to strive for excellence but we must also choose where to excel. One of [...]
Interacting With Planting Fast Growing Churches Research
Monday, May 12th, 2008Based upon the research found in Stephen Gray’s book, Planting Fast Growing Churches, I ran across a power point version of the research that was extremely encouraging to me and where we’re at a church plant (see also 21 differences in fast growing and struggling plants).
Criteria for “fast growing”:
Self-supporting in 3 years time (from time [...]