Church Planting
« Previous EntriesPhilip Jensen on Anglicanism and Evangelicalism
Friday, June 13th, 2008If you have followed the blog for any length then you will probably recall how influential my time in Sydney spent with MTS. The ministry model I saw - churches on campus, the hospitality that was extended to me, and the warm friendships I made all had a lasting impression on me.
One of the highlights [...]
David Fitch & Mark Driscoll Revisited
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Out of Ur posted a helpful follow-up to their post last week from Fitch on Driscoll’s contention that emergent flavored churches are not seeing conversions actually taking place. (Here is my short interaction with the post.)
Fitch is back this week interacting with some questions raised in the comments of his initial article. I [...]
Someone Finally Said It
Thursday, June 5th, 2008Yesterday I read a post over at Out of Ur concerning Driscoll’s claim last year at the Convergent Conference (?) that emerging churches aren’t typically reaching people with the gospel. The post was David Fitch’s response to the critique.
Here’s the statement from Driscoll:
And all the nonsense of emerging, and Emergent, and new monastic communities, [...]
Stephen Gray & Planting Fast Growing Churches
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Stephen Gray stopped by in the comments yesterday to give some insight into his research. I put two and two together today and realized that he leads the organization that planted a church across town from us, The Bridge. God is doing some really cool stuff over there.
I thought it would be beneficial to post [...]
The Church Matters (and so does church membership)
Monday, May 19th, 2008In a comment Brad asked me to expand on why we’re choosing our partnership language over membership. I want to address this in two posts today and tomorrow.
This post will overlap with my yet to be written post related to “Inviting people to church or inviting people to Jesus.” But basically what I [...]
Monday Links
Monday, May 19th, 2008Church Planting: Home Office v. Rented Office (we’ve gone with the former). Check it.
Church Planting: 10 biggest entrepreneurial mistakes. Check it.
MMI: Top 10 reasons for church staff terminations. Check it.
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 [...]
The Church, Mission, Kingdom of God, & Missional and Attractional Models
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008I am pretty certain that is the longest, most descriptive title I’ve ever had for a post. Hope you’re not expecting too much after reading it.
There seems to be a dichotomy in many people between several poles. And in my mind, right now at least, they seem to be quite interrelated at some [...]
Church Planting Interview
Monday, April 28th, 2008I had a short interview this afternoon with Matt Sweetman, a church planting intern in STL. Somehow Matt ran across by blog recently and contacted me last week about the interview.
It was a good time. Matt sent me a list of sample questions which really helped me reflect on where we’re at right now, that [...]
Busy Day in The Burg
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008As I said, I spent most of the day in The Burg hanging with the staff at FBC, Warrensburg.
I have tremendous respect for the staff at FBC, Warrensburg. Carrie and I spent 4 years in Warrensburg and except for a few other church visits early on we spent all our time at FBC. We made [...]