Viral Discipleship: Moving from Macro to Micro Reproduction

Posted by on Nov 8, 2010 in Discipleship, Launch Team, Missional, Uncategorized | 0 comments Building a viral DNA is something we all strive for.  There are several books out on how to create movement.  The Exponential Conference has focused on movement making.  Much of the missional discussion has to do with creating viral, organic, rapidly reproducing movements.  Church planting is frequently referred to as multiplication and movement.  I think we can all agree that church...
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Church Planting is Hard: Establishing DNA

Posted by on Jul 26, 2010 in Church Planting, Discipleship, Launch Team | 0 comments Ed Stetzer always says, “Don’t plant a church in your head.  Plant a church in your community.”  These are wise words.  Initially the vision for the church is birthed in your head.  You know exactly what kind of church you want to be.  You can clearly communicate the vision and DNA of the church.  It’s the perfect church.  Then people get involved and mess up the...
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Church Planting is Hard: Building a Launch Team

Posted by on Jul 12, 2010 in Launch Team, Uncategorized | 0 comments The most important aspect of church planting is building the launch team.  It is also one of the hardest aspects.  One of the most common ways to plant a church is the parachute drop.  The church planter moves into a community having little to no existing relationships and begins to build a team to plant a church.  C. Peter Wagner writes that a minimum of 50 people is needed for a healthy...
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Inflatable Relationships

Posted by on Jul 1, 2010 in Community Engagement, Launch Team | 0 comments If I were planting a church again, one of the first things I would purchase would be inflatables.  You know the big bounce house and slides that kids go crazy for.  Before you scream attractional blasphemy in the comments, here me out.  Inflatables are a great tool to build relationships.  In the early days, we would use the bounce house to partner with events happening in the city.  These...
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Building the Launch Team: Redefining Church

Posted by on Jun 7, 2010 in Launch Team | 2 comments I have had a few conversations with church planters recently in which the church planter shares about their struggle to build the launch team.  The common complaint is that they don’t have anything to invite them too and that those they have asked have said that they would come when the church got started i.e. public worship services.  I believe the problem is very simple.  We simply...
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Coffee for Your Thoughts: Another Great Use of Craigslist

Posted by on May 15, 2010 in Church Planting, Launch Team, Strategy | 0 comments Bryan Myers, a church planter in Utah, discovered another great use for Craigslist.  He posted an ad titled, “Free Coffee for Your Thoughts.”  From this campaign, Bryan reports that four people want to join a Community Group.  Two of them are formerly LDS and one is currently LDS.  Make you wonder what Bryan put in the coffee.  What a great way to connect with people!  I love...
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