by Doug Murren | Jun 7, 2023 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Pastoral Burnout, Small Church / Rural Church
One of the most discouraging aspects of planting churches is the fact that most people who start with you leave early on. Why does this happen? Several reasons. Unmet expectations. Physical fatigue sometimes enters in. Some just aren’t called to be...
by Dave Jacobs | Oct 16, 2018 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
I can remember fishing with my grandpa when I was a little boy. Fred Flowerday, one of nine boys and a girl born to a farmer in Nebraska. Fred knew how to fish. Grandpa taught me about “keepers”. Those of you who fish know that “keepers” are fish worthy of…well,...
by Aubrey Malphurs | Apr 2, 2013 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Communication / Preaching
One of the problems that I commonly hear from church planters is that the core of people with whom they launch the church don’t last. What does that mean? They are a part of the church for two perhaps three years (or even on occasion only one year), and then they...
by Dave Ferguson | Jul 8, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
In my last post I reminded you how Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, Blink introduced us to a psychologist who almost intuitively knew whether a marriage would last after being with a couple a few minutes and a tennis coach who knew could accurately predict a...
by Stephen Gray | Jun 25, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Communication / Preaching
A church plant is a lot like a boulder on a barren mountainside. You’ve seen this same rock in many adventure movies. Perhaps you’ve seen two nondescript cowboys desperately prying it loose, and then watching it fall. It quickly picks up speed, knocking other smaller...
