Posted in Planting on 4 January 2009
There is a guy that i recently heard about who is reaching out to his Twitter fan base to raise the money necessary to plant a church. Here’s his pitch:
What would happen if a missionary used Twitter to help start a new church? Let’s find out. I want everyone on Twitter who found this page [...]
Posted in Strategy, Your Voice on 4 January 2009
This is an excerpt from an article that Dan Kimball wrote for Leadership Journal. As many of you know he is the pastor of Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California and has been one of the leading voices for the emergent/missional movement. What are some of your thoughts about the themes he is bringing [...]
Posted in Leadership, Thought on 8 December 2008
Ed Young Jr. has posted a video talking about the difference between church planting and church transplanting. He seems to believe that most churches are planted based on staff being pillaged from other churches. He also seems pretty angry about it.
Do you agree with him or disagree with him? Have you ever been a pirate?
The video [...]
Posted in Orthodoxy, Thought on 5 December 2008
As the corporate elite have taken up more and more of the seats on elder teams and deacon boards they have brought with them a blueprint for success based on business. These blueprints have ushered in excel spreadsheet upon excel spreadsheet for us to use to count and quantify every component of church life. While [...]
Posted in Leadership on 17 November 2008
I’ve been asking the wrong question.
I was meeting with one of my friends on our staff early this year about what our 20’s ministry needed to do to reach more students at surrounding college campuses. It began as a safe and normal conversation about how we need to improve on what we’re doing as a [...]
