Church Planting

The Double-Edge Sword of Raising Support as a Church Planter
by Drew Goodmanson|19 June 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership
A few days ago I posted an idea to help fund church planting and transitions into ministry.  Since then I've been thinking a bit more about a 'tentmaker' organization that would create sustainable church planting movements.  The concept comes from...
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Tentmakers – Funding a Church Plant or Ministry Transition
by Drew Goodmanson|08 June 2007|Church, Church Planting, Teaching
How do you fund a church plant?  For many planters money is the number one challenge to being able to pursue their calling.  I've been thinking about creative ways to do this and wanted to post an idea:  (This is...
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Triperspectivalism, Multiperspectivalism & Other Large Words
by Drew Goodmanson|31 May 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design, Triperspectivalism
It's been well over a year since my first post on multiperspectivalism (or triperspectivalism), but more and more people & churches are seeing this as a framework to do effective ministry.  In the Acts 29 forum, there appears to be...
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Where Should a New Church Meet?
by Drew Goodmanson|29 May 2007|Church, Church Planting
Ed Stetzer sent over his recent insights for Church Planters: Church planters have a million issues to consider as they start a new church: what music style do we use, how do we let the community know about us, and...
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GCA – North America Church Planting Seminar
by Drew Goodmanson|23 May 2007|Church Planting, Culture, General Technology
The North America Church Planting Seminar 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 the spiritual, social and cultural transformation of entire cities and...
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Elders – Missional Movements, Plurality of Leadership & First Amongst Equals
by Drew Goodmanson|22 May 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
A group of Acts 29 pastors gathered for our monthly lunch together.  It was during this time we provide just-in-time coaching to those who would like to bring things to the table.  At this meeting three different churches discussed how...
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Missional Eldership – Leading a Transformational Community
by Drew Goodmanson|12 May 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design, Triperspectivalism
Traditional/Centralized forms of church government destroy a church's mission.  At Kaleo Church we continue to re-think the form of our church and our church's ecclesiology for the sake of the gospel. As we do, we must also consider how we...
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The Decline of the Western Church and the Call to renew your Church's Ecclesiology
by Drew Goodmanson|06 May 2007|Church, Church Planting, Culture, Ministry Design, Triperspectivalism
The Western Church is in decline. Part of the challenge is the church is stuck in old models of ecclesiology based on Constantinian views of church.  The church is seen as a power structure seeking to 'attract' people from the...
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Triperspectival Ecclesiology – Being the Church as Corporate, Intimate & Group
by Drew Goodmanson|02 May 2007|Church, Church Planting, Culture, Ministry Design, Triperspectivalism
There is a lot of conversation lately around missional ecclesiology.  From The Shaping of Things to Come and the Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch to Dr. Michael Goheen's Missional Ecclesiology sessions at our church conference based on Lesslie Newbigin, who...
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Using the Internet to Gather, Connect and as a place of Mission
by Drew Goodmanson|29 April 2007|Church, Church Planting, Church Technology, Ekklesia, Ministry Design, Monk Dev
Breakout session 6   Thursday 845 to 945am Today is Internet Evangelism Day. More and more we need to see the internet as a mission field.  As our culture moves increasingly online, this presentation discusses how churches can be missionaries to...
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