Church Planting

The guests showed up to your church worship services, but they never returned. Has that ever happened in your church? You speak with someone who is visiting for the first time. You try to be friendly. But you never see them again.

I was meeting with a potential church planter and some wisdom from the years of experience flooded my mind. I think they are valuable for all leaders, but especially my friends in ministry.

Important for launching a healthy church is strategizing around each phase of the Church Life Cycle.

While many themes are pertinent to The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, here is what their story can teach us about what the future of church planting in North America should look like.

When it comes to how to start a church, two things are certain: (1) God can provide, and (2) people matter more than money.

My email purge is reasonably straightforward: I filter my inbox, searching for emails originating from a mailing list. At the bottom of each message is the word I'm searching for: "unsubscribe." But what can I learn from the process?

The problem of digital DIY is we spend hours watching tutorials on web development only to realize we’ve ruined our entire website with that one accidental line of code.