I was so naive when we planted three years ago. The sheer metric tons of stuff I didn’t know then that I know now could feel volumes of books. However, there are a few things that come to mind as great lessons I learned the hard way.
1. Half of your core team will leave [...]

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One church planter I know of thought he’d show the love of Jesus as he launched so he touched 10,000 people with practical acts of love. As he told me this he thought I would be impressed by this project. I kept waiting for him to finish the story.  After a long uncomfortable pause I [...]

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Some of you are church planters. I wrote a book with Rob Lewin that was published by Regal in 2003 entitled Community of Kindness. It’s real title should have been "The Church Planter’s Survival Guide." If you have been following JumpStartChurch.com you have figured out that I have a heart for those kindred folk who [...]

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If the church was a mission to the moon, and I was the commander of the mission, my call to Mission Central would be: "Oh God, we have a problem!" The problem is that when the vast majority of people think of the Church, or of a Christian, their thoughts are negative!
The Church in America [...]

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You ask, "Okay, so why the big difference? Why is church planting at large stalemated but the churches you are planting rock!?
I'm sorry for the mainstream terminology, but it's called 'Branding.' In my time launching and leading churches, growing from 5 to 7,500, we served and served and served.  With each bottle of water that [...]

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