by Chris Lagerlof | Feb 10, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
I was at lunch with a few Church Planters the other day. As I listened to the conversation, I was reminded that we have developed a mindset and focus on planting a service and not planting a church or planting the Gospel. Not only have we trained planters to focus on...
by Dave Alford | Feb 8, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Leaders who are effective in the long run have a set of enduring values that guide them. Values are important in all areas of leadership, but perhaps are most important in the way leaders utilize the people who follow them. There should be two values that you hold in...
by Toni Spry | Jan 29, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Somebody once told me that if people were talking about me, they were leaving someone else alone. Somehow that never consoled me. And if I heard that my husband was being criticized, rightly or wrongly, it drove me crazy. People come to a church plant with differing...
by Tom Nebel | Jan 27, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
In real life, arranged marriages can work well. In church planting, not so well. Here’s what I mean. We have neighbors who are from India, and they’re in an arranged marriage which is doing quite well. The story is interesting. He was born in America, so he’s a...
by Scott Thomas | Jan 23, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
The most common metaphor for Christian community is “family” and “household” (Rom. 12:10; Gal. 6:10; Eph. 2:19; 1 Peter 4:17). It dawned on me that we rarely apply this to one’s marriage and family. I curiously wondered why we fail to act in families as a community of...
