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Posts made in January, 2007
Speaker: Steve Childers
"If you are a church planter, by its nature you are a conflict manager," said Childers. There is a relationship between the church size and conflict. The smaller your church, the greater the arena and likelihood an antagonist will be present. (The people set on absorbing the time...
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Speaker: Dr. Steve Ogne
David Fairchild provides a good summary of the session on Mobilizing Church Planters . Steve gives a few suggestions for finding and igniting a multiplication movement. What are we looking for when we think of a lighting rod of a man who knows how to charge and take a hill?
1-The leader should engage...
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"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few…" (Matthew 9:37b) How do you raise and recruit leaders to change a city? Dr. Steve Ogne states that, recruiting is NOT a long term solution. Ogne believes that effective leadership development systems begin with the lost community. Pastoral...
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Speaker: Dr. Steve Ogne
Ogne's session presented a framework for raising up leaders in a local church. One of the thoughts I've had for a month or so (I mentioned it about re-thinking the role of elders that I still haven't posted on yet, but plan to) is:
Churches tend to primarily raise leaders...
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CHURCH PLANTING NETWORKS
"Church plants that are part of a network are 400% more likely to succeed."
Ed Stetzer new stats
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
"We've found that if you aim to develop leaders, you'll get what these people can do. If you aim to develop gospel pacesetters, you will get what only...
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Here are the sessions I attended today: Developing a Purpose & Mission, Determining Value & Styles (both taught from the infamous 600+ page GCA Church Planting Manual, so I won't quote these) and Redeemer's Global Cities Strategy. Some ideas from today:
"Church plants are 250% more likely to succeed if...
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Tomorrow I leave to the North America Church Planting Conference with David Fairchild. "The North America Church Planting Conference is an inter-denominational training event designed to equip church planters, coaches and supervisors to start, grow and multiply healthy, gospel-centered churches that result in...
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Are you a designers, developers or programmer? MinistryCamp Job Board has launched “a listing of design and programming jobs offered by ministries looking for the best of the online industry that loves Jesus.” One of the benefits of MinistryCamp, is a percentage of the sales is given back into practical...
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I'm always curious about social trends and the shape of things to come. It is through this fascination, I've gathered some information and patterns to suggest where the future of spirituality is going and what is after postmodernism. I believe postmodernism is already dead. Unfortunately, it will take years...
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For those who are church planters, I've put together a list of Acts 29 pastors who have blogs. My assumption is that a lot of these planters will post on issues of church planting and being the church.
David Fairchild (San Diego)
Mark Moore (Dallas & Mark blogs about the International Acts 29 movement)
Mark Driscoll...
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