Category: Discipleship

  • 5 Reasons You Need a PreLaunch Vacation

    5 Reasons You Need a PreLaunch Vacation

    Do you dare take a vacation while you’re planting a church? There is so much to do, and it’s a busy season. Summers for brand new churches can be challenging. Launch Team participation can dip due to vacations. But the bigger question is whether you get a vacation, too. Whether you feel like you can […]

  • Church Planters – Is Your Smart Phone Filtered?

    Church Planters, you should make sure that your smart phone is filtered. Until recently, internet pulled through your smart phone was a loop-hole in the fight for accountability against pornography. XXXChurch and Church Mag both remind us that pornography is more addictive that crack cocaine and will suck you in before you know it. The […]

  • Church Plant Launch Team – Should You Include Believers?

    I have read a lot of dialogue over the last several years about the inclusion of believers on a church plant Launch Team. Most agree that the Launch Team shouldn’t be only believers, though that is all too often what happens. A few promote not allowing any already-believers on the Launch Team for fear of […]

  • Church Planting – What Neil Cole Would Have Done Differently

    Neil Cole is a thought leader and practitioner in the organic/missional/house church movement (what are we calling it this month?). In his post Lessons Learned in the Fields, he recaps what he would do differently if he were planting again today. It’s an adaption of his own book, Organic Church. Here are the nuggets I […]

  • FREE Church Plant Resource: Examen.Me discipleship tool

    Tap into the inner-technophile in your launch team and encourage them to use Examen.Me to deepen their walk with God. The account is free and easy to use. How would you use this as part of your overall discipleship strategy?