I’ve been watching the trend escalate for the past decade. For centuries, it has been the practice of non-mainline groups. But for the last couple of decades its has been a rising factor in thriving churches.
I’m talking about the rise and effectiveness of non-seminary trained pastors. It used to be that pastors like enormously […]
Reading Spark, by Todd Wilson, filled my eyes with tears. Where was this book when I restarted my church? What a difference it might have made. Folks, this is the first book of 2015 that will go on my classics list.
The author addressed both the problem and the solution when it comes to developing a […]
Here are a few questions you should be able to answer affirmatively before going multi-site.
1. Is my church growing a minimum of 5% per year?
2. Is my church 80% full at the main service?
3. Is my community 50% unchurched or more?
4. Does my church have a good reputation in the community?
5. Does my church want […]
Here are our reasons for believing that multiple site ministries will be one of the driving forces of the 21st century.
1. Many established churches are starting to grow when they get a young pastor with fire and they don’t have enough land to grow. Moving is too costly emotionally for the older crowd, so […]
Last week I was in Eugene Oregon at Wayne Cordeiro’s farm working with Leadership Network. There were two other mentors like Wayne and myself along with around 20 25-35 year old pastors. All of them were outside of the mainstream, were leading growing churches, and were multi site or were getting ready to go […]
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