Thursday is for Missional Thinking Becoming a Rabbit Church vs an Elephant Church *comments in red are Ed Stetzer’s; comments and points in black are mine The following are comments and notes from a class with Ed Stetzer. Ed and I were scheduled to teach a class together one year at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School … More What Hinders Rapid Church Multiplication?
Monday Discussion We don’t need to plant churches. We need to plant church-planting churches. We need to plant churches that replicate themselves as part of how they define health and obedience to Christ. As Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird write in Viral Churches: We want to lay the foundation for an out-of-control replication of new … More We Don’t Need to Plant Churches
A plea for existing churches to be Kingdom minded rather than fiefdom focused on the narrow interests of their shrinking congregations. My brothers, your congregation will grow when you begin to pray for workers and send some from you to plant other churches for the glory of God. Quotes from my weekend reading “The only … More Exisiting Churches: “Stop dragging your feet on church planting”
Monday is for Discussion Reality is a significant adrenalin rush when it smacks you in the face. Here’s reality on the US church planting scene. We are failing to reach our children with the gospel. Most believers never share the gospel with another person. Most churches (80%) are plateaued or declining. Most church plants grow … More Revive Us, Oh God
Missional Musings on (mostly) Other Peoples Thoughts “Since Christianity is true, there is an echo of it (however faint) in every heart. You never know when the open statement of your conviction will strike a deep chord of rightness in some secular group.” —John Piper, (A Godward Life), p. 79 “Souls blistered by sin … More Since the Gospel is True, There is Always an Echo in Every Heart
Sad, but the first a quote here tends to scare the dickens out of denominational and established church pastors: “We want to lay the foundation for an out-of-control replication of new churches, a movement of God that will literally change the landscape of North America.” —Viral Churches, p. 12 “Consider two congregations, Church A and … More Weekend Reading Quotes
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