by Steve Sjogren | Sep 23, 2019 | Church Leadership, Outreach and Evangelism, Servant Evangelism
Someone sent me a tweet recently that I’ve been thinking about. He asked about mega-churches and if many of the people they attract simply come from other churches. To be clear, those who come to any sized church are usually already converted people whether those...
by Ed Stetzer | Aug 2, 2019 | Church Planting, Church Revitalization
We’ve all heard the old adage about the revolving church door. People come in and, before we know what happened, they leave, never to return. But what if this didn’t have to be the case? How do we treat those visiting or relatively new to our churches in ways that...
by Steve Sjogren | Jul 10, 2019 | Servant Evangelism, Uncategorized
I run into people regularly who openly wonder how to lead others in the realm of outreaches. “If we are walking in the Spirit do we need to schedule outreaches?” they reason. Isn’t that a bit like scheduling love? Aren’t we called to walk in...
by Jeff Hoglen | Jun 8, 2019 | Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Featured, Servant Evangelism
Doug Pollock is part of Kindness Outreach Ministries, the 501c-3 organization that hosts this site – churchplanting.com as well as www.kindnessoutreach.com and www.SteveSjogren.com. Doug has written a great resource called God Space which has been a best seller...
by Scott Thomas | Apr 3, 2019 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Church planting pastors usually experience a painful crash course in leadership. Very few seminaries teach this well and very few churches model this well. So, young pastors, led by a vision and driven with passion often run into a leadership brick wall. I remember...
