Having someone offer to help with you with a great vision is awesome, but. Patience while leading and waiting is crucial. If you get impatient or move to quickly, you hurt people the Kingdom and the community you are called to impact. Continue Reading…
Church Planting is the fastest way to spread the GospelAs the church fully engages in its mission to make disciples the formation of new churches will be a natural product of the Kingdom expansion. Now I’m not trying to promote any one school of planting…Just that a new plant would come out of the harvest, and not in transfer growth.
What promoted this blog is an email I received today from a man who feels called to plant a church, but his pastor says if he does he "isn’t a true minister." What? Are you serious right now? Why would a pastor be against church planting? I can guess…Spiritual ignorance. A lack of knowing and feeling the weight of the great command to "Go and make followers of all people."
Quite simply, this is my challenge…Are you or will you engage directly or partner with another who is actively planting a church(es)? This is primarily a corporate call, but an individual one as well. Each person and every community of believers must carry the weight to "Go and make followers."
How are you actively obeying the command… "Go and make disciples?"
How many have you "made?"
What is your next step?
You should really consider planting a church in a small city or community.
This is an email I received from a church planter last week…
"God is moving in small town America and here on the West Coast! We have been in a relaunch this last Continue Reading…
I wrote this for ChurchPlanting.com and it was one of the most popular articles so I thought I should re-post it here.
When you go to plant a church, or are involved in helping others plant churches that question must be asked clearly and plainly. A battery of tests, evaluations and interviews that help guide and determine your “make-up” as a planter then follows the question.
But here’s the deal. We all use those tests (most are the same), we do the interviews and that information is valuable. It takes past successful planters and measures their mutual qualities against the prospective planter. Then there is a pass-fail.
Frankly… I hate this. Continue Reading…
Is your church in it to win it? Every Church needs to be in their city to WIN their city. That has to be the heart cry of every pastor and leader in a church in order for that to happen. And that’s not an easy thing.
The pastor MUST see the city as "His" city, not my church, but my city! The pastor and leaders must have passion for the city. They must weep over it, pray over it, know it, get involved in it and… LOVE it.
Never focus on satisfying the crying mouths in the "nest" on Sunday, if you do you have lost the city. Never in scripture do I see the people of God called to conquer a group of people, but rater whole cities, regions and nations.
Being in your city to win it, means a different mind set of doing church. It calles into question and puts every action and reaction on the table of change. The battle lines of an on-going war change daily, weekly and monthly. However, most of us are doing the same things today we did years ago!
We must learn to put our ear to the ground and hear the cries of our city. We must put our ear to the lips of God and ask "what next Father?" It taks a big mission shift to understand the reality that God has called us to reach cities and not just satisfy people.
I don’t know about you, but my city has a calling on it. God has called us to more than just serve, love, give, preach and teach. God has called us to Win a City for the Kingdom, that is our calling, that is what we will set our eyes and hands to.
What about you? What say you?
A Body at RestA law of physics, and a spiritual law. If a church (Body of Christ) is not moving, not causing motion and a co-motion, it will stand still, motionless. Not moving, touching or changing anything or anyone.
It will stay that way, unless the church is "Bumped" and forced to move forward. Some need to get some bump going on! New vision, new passion & direction.
Signs of a body (Church) at Rest: Continue Reading…
Dope? New word for "awesome." Chumlee used it last night on Pawn Stars. Anyway, planting a church in a small city or community is really awesome.
The Comb Network is a planting organization that targets small cities in a unique way. If you have a desire to plant, or be a part of planting in a small city, you should check out our…
The Comb Network is unique in that we:
We are having our first open event, you should really come, or call someone else and tell them to come!
What say you? Are you ready for an Adventure?
Never doubt your on-line power. Never doubt your churches’ ability to effect lives by having your services streamed live!
I was reading this last night and it blew my away. Over…
Blockbuster is in bankruptcy. The once mighty giant failed to recognize the need for change and are trying to "catch up."
First came Net Flix, Blockbuster waited to long to recognize the customer wanted the choice of buying and ordering off line.
Then came Red Box. Blockbuster underestimated the power and connivence of Continue Reading…
I love the take no prisoners attitude of Bruce Lee. He wasn’t content following the same "systems" others said needed to be followed. Bruce Lee was bold enough to be original. To follow his passion, regardless of what it looked like.
I believe this to be the new frontier of church planting. Where we are willing to sacrifice the "sacred cows" for the sake of rapid church planting and Kingdom growth. Not holding to the standards of man, but humbly submitted to God’s.
Put these on the tabele, what is generally taken off:. Continue Reading…
