I read a lot of Mission or Vision statements from a lot of different churches. Most of them don’t turn me on and if they won’t turn me on there is a good
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I read a lot of Mission or Vision statements from a lot of different churches. Most of them don’t turn me on and if they won’t turn me on there is a good
By: Jeff Patton If you are going to plant a church, here is my sense of it in 2007. 1. Find your heart burst, what you just can’t live without doing—life is too
In Modernity humans were the great observers. What we saw and how we interpreted it became fiat law – even if it was wrong. The world was flat; the world was round. The
By: Jeff Patton I just spent a weekend with a Church discovering this congregation’s purpose. To accomplish this we spent the weekend studying Scripture and coming to term with the underlying principles that ought
The other night, I met with a new church plant's core leadership for a planning session. Each member of the leadership core has served the church literally for years and are all excited
During my time (Bill Easum) as a consultant I have been amazed at how often I find declining churches doing ministries that have little to do with their future. Some of these ministries