'church planting' Tagged Posts (Page 11)
How do you know if you’re called to plant (2)?
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/23962062]
Advice for Mother Churches in Planting
Great little pearls of wisdom from James MacDonald here.
10 Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing
Interesting interview here from a planter with over 30 years experience.
Am I a leader?
This is a tough question and one that gets put to me quite often. What do I think the requirements are of somebody interested in church planting and working in inner city contexts? Too many to stick on one blog. So, let’s just kick around a few. 1. Do you have vision? Not can you see, but are you a visionary? Can you see potential where others see problems? Can you…
Why we plant churches
A talk by Richard Coekin – an uptight Brit!! [vimeo http://vimeo.com/23693117]
Should we Kill Our Small Groups?
I just read an interesting article on why small groups don’t work. Whilst from a USA perspective, let me assure you that some of what he says couldn’t be truer, particularly in our context. People in Niddrie don’t want to sit around for 1.5 hours a week and pretend to like other people they don’t really know or associate with outside of the…
Church Planting Movements
Check out this interesting (and free) online booklet from www.imb.org/CPM. Of particular interest are the 10 universal elements that you would expect to find in any developing church planting movement. I may blog on each of them more in-depth.
Planting New Churches
NCC is going through the process of independence from the ‘mother ship’ and, all things being well, we should have full autonomy by January 2012. This is my fourth year at Niddrie and I am already thinking about what the future holds for us here as a congregation. Stetzer says: ‘I’m disappointed when gifted church planters have not, after three…
Planting Missional Churches
I have just finished reading Stetzer’s latest book, ‘Planting Missional Churches – Planting a church that’s biblically sound and reaching people in culture.’ I have been reviewing it piece by piece, particularly with regard to the ’10 Marks of an Effective Plant’ series. As with all books there are good bits and there are bad.…
10 Marks of Effective Church Plants (6)
Visualising Worship According to Stetzer, worship has become more visual. When we (at his church) sing of blood we show blood. When we sing of Christ, we use art from the ages to show Christ.’ (P140). I found this fascinating. In the conservative circles in which I was saved it was noticeable that I never found any images, crosses or anything remotely ‘religious’…