Exponential 2011
I will be at Exponential 2011 this year on all three days for four workshops. If you plan on being there, it would be great to connect. Just email me and let me know. Exponential is one of the largest gatherings of church planters on the planet. It delivers quite a punch over three days. If […]
Why So Many Church Plants Plateau
Over the years I’ve noticed that a good number of church plants grow for two or three years, plateau, and then decline. It’s not unusual for a church to grow to 150-200 over a three-year period and then go nowhere. In my experience, there have been two causes of this failure to continue to grow. […]
Describing What’s Happening Today
I had a conversation today with a lady in an Ontario bookstore where they were doing a book signing for some of my books. We were talking about a couple of new books that I had recommended: And: The Gathered and Scattered Church and Exponential, neither of which are on Amazon.ca yet. She said, I guess they […]
Why New Plants Start Declining Early
I’m working with a church established in the 1990s that grew up to 200 the year it moved into its permanent building in the late 90’s. Then it began to decline and has been declining every year since and is now down in the low 100’s. We see this kind of decline often in new […]