by Ben Arment | Jul 13, 2018 | Church Leadership, Coaching
Most of us only dream at the scale of what we’ve experienced before. It’s the learning curve that’s holding us back. But learning curves are meant to be conquered. Some people are born into households where learning curves are naturally conquered,...
by Steve Sjogren | Mar 27, 2012 | Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
John Chapman, aka the legendary “Johnny Appleseed” was a missionary who reached out to native Americans in the Ohio Valley in the early 1800s. He Had Simple Tools His primary planting tool was a stick! Do you have a stick? When his current stick wore out he found a...
by Charles Hill | Mar 6, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Communication / Preaching
Well, that title says it all. You can fill in any words you want for the characters that will no doubt appear anytime you have to make this decision. Wait. Isn’t this a church planting blog? Well yes, and some of you will leave churches to plant or leave plants...
by Dave Ferguson | Aug 8, 2011 | Church Leadership
Like my last two posts, this one is built on the premise of Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink that introduced the idea that our first intuitions and spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or even better than—carefully planned and considered ones. This is the...
by Charles Hill | Jul 12, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
As a planter, I used to stand up in front of people all the time and say: “If ONE person comes to know Christ as Savior, it is worth it all!” The problem is that I didn’t really believe it fully. Our last Easter at New Hope in a tiny Ohio town where...
