Understanding and raising the giftedness of the people and putting into place systems and processes that prepare the church plant for ministry effectiveness are just some of the essentials of this course.
Disciple-Making and Multiplication
As disciple-making and multiplication are at the heart of the gospel, this course helps the planter craft a strategy and process to weave disciple-making and multiplication into the very fabric of the church plant.
Resourcing the Church Plant
This course helps the planter raise resources for the church plant and also structure the plant for doing more with less. The biblical foundations for raising resources are identified, and practical assignments are given to lead the planter to begin to resource …
Missional Engagement and Vision
This course helps church planters identify and understand the people group they are called to reach and engage, while helping them develop a strategy to cast a vision for reaching that group. Each participant is challenged to lead into this vision with …
Missional Engagement
This course will demonstrate how to approach one’s surrounding context with the same love and attitude that was manifest in Jesus. Candidates will deepen their commitment and ability to bring about God’s redemption in the world by working to bring people to …
The Best Way to Respond to Negative People
Our friends had a four-year-old daughter and a son of fifteen months who was just learning to toddle and talk. The girl loved to show off her brother, particularly because he really knew only one word: “No!” Regardless of what …
Five Examples of a Healthy Church
Five Examples of a Healthy Church The search for artificial intelligence continues. Will we be able to create machines that might actually think and learn, rather than simply compute? Can computers “feel” and “reason”? An early experiment that probed the …
5 Things Leaders Do To Get Things Done
5 Things Leaders Do To Get Things Done Bob was great at talking, but not so much at doing. He could wax eloquent about his vision for projects (e.g., setting up missional communities, creating a prayer chapel, and starting a …
Do be do be do Leadership
Do be do be do Leadership To do is to be – Plato To be is to do – Aristotle To know is to be – Aquinas Do be do be do – Frank Sinatra The above are generally accepted …
Financial meltdown for the Church?
Financial Meltdown for the Church? “Donations to evangelical churches and organizations are on course to decline by about 70% within the next 25-30 years due to the deaths of the most generous generation” says John S. Dickerson in his book, …
