Category: Discipleship
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Who Should Your Benevolence System Help?
A benevolence system is all about people. But who should it help? At the end of the day, it’s a people process through and through. And there are several categories of people that your benevolence system could help: People from the Community Turns out that this is the least agreed-upon group of people. Not because […]
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How to Create a Church Plant Benevolence System
As you get connected in your community, sooner or later someone will contact you for help with a utility bill or car repair. What are you going to do about church plant benevolence when it comes up? There are lots of scriptural mandates around the concept of benevolence, including Jesus’ parable about the eternal reward […]
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How to Capture Names Without Seeming Pushy
The following is a guest post from Don Corder of The Provisum Group, a friend in ministry that shares my heart for making church management and administration easier for pastors. Figuring out how to capture names without seeming pushy is key. In 1936, Dale Carnegie wrote one of the best books ever written on forming […]
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4 Steps to Delegating Church Plant Responsibilities
The following is a guest post by my new friend in ministry, Deborah Ike. She is a writer, consultant, and project manager focused on using her experiences to help church leaders grow their churches with zero burnout. When you start on the journey to planting a church, you’re wearing several hats: Visionary Pastor Volunteer trainer […]
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Exponential East 2016 Main Session 1
This mini-series is a summary of my notes from the Exponential East 2016 Main Sessions. Becoming a Level 5 Church Speakers: Erwin McManus, Ed Stetzer, Jon Ferguson The opening session will set the stage for the week’s conversation and introduce the 5 levels of multiplication addressed in the theme book Becoming a Level Five Multiplying […]
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Micro vs Macro Church Metrics
What is your church’s scorecard? If you want to know how you’re doing at making disciples, you need to consider micro vs macro church metrics. For years churches have been measuring things at the macro (congregational) level. While that’s important and should be part of the scorecard, Willow’s now almost 10-year old Reveal study bravely […]
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3 Reasons to Create Ministry Reports
There has been a lot of healthy conversation around the ‘scorecard’ of the church recently. We mostly agree that measuring attendance and offerings is an incomplete scorecard at best. But why would you even want to create ministry reports that measure other things? Nobody becomes a church planter so that they can read or create […]
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Online Personality Profiles for Church Volunteers
Even good leaders need to figure out how to lead volunteers better. One of the ways you can do that is to know your volunteers better. Online personality profiles for church volunteers can help. There are 2 basic approaches to filling volunteer positions at your church plant: 1. Based on the Church’s Need This is […]
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Are Missional Communities 501c3? How the IRS Feels About It
part 1 in a 4-part series about Church Tax Exemption I have written before about how the IRS considers churches automatically 501c3 tax exempt. It’s how separation of church and state works in the Church’s favor. I’m sometimes asked, “Are missional communities 501c3?” What’s Missional Community Planting? The conversation about planting churches through a missional […]