Tag: church planting
Why You are Struggling to Build a Team Around You
Leadership is often lonely. This loneliness is compounded by the fact that many leaders can’t quite figure out how to put together a good team around them. These leaders have vision but no real team. They have been blessed …
One Sure Way to Kill Your Church (or Church Plant)
Trying to please people in order to get them to stay will kill your Church Plant. Church plants often fail to survive long-term. When church plants fail, there are often clear mistakes that lead to their demise. One of these …
How to Develop Leaders in your Church
Many pastors have no essential plan for developing leaders. We (hopefully) know how to interpret the Bible, how to preach, and how to counsel, but are often ineffective at training both current and future church leaders. There is perhaps no …
Five Church Planting Dangers
Planting a Church? Then you should read this post by Tim Chester. Here are 5 church planting dangers that he unpacks: 1. Planting a Replica Church Cloning your past experience or someone else’s model. 2. Planting a Reactionary Church You …
The “Experts” Can’t Always Help You
If only there were a formula. We are promised that if we follow a formula we will have success. We love formulas. Give me the formula for a happy marriage, for perfect parenting, for successful church planting, for church growth. …