Leadership is such a tricky issue within church planting. For many, the tendency is to grab up any warm body who shows any bit of interest and throw them into a leading position. That my friends, is what would be called the epitome of a “bad idea.” On the other hand, trying to lead a [...]
Now I know that one of the newest upcoming trends in church planting is to avoid talking about the dreaded “numbers.” How many did you have on Sunday? How many are coming out each week? How many are you running? These are the non-postmodern sensitive questions that you get as a church planter all the [...]
This past week I had a new visitor at Aletheia tell me that they loved our church and that it reminded me of their church back home. That is always a good thing in my mind because we want people to feel comfortable when they come through our doors. But the next thing she said [...]
It’s amazing that we’ve only been in Tampa for a year now. It was a year ago yesterday that we had our first on campus Bible study, in which 13 people or so came out. We had no idea what the next year would hold. As I have mentioned in a previous post, so much [...]
In collegiate church planting, I am a firm believer that to see any sort of success, unless you are holding people at gun point and forcing them to come through your doors on Sunday, you have to go to the students on campus. I spend 4 days out of the week connecting with the students [...]
So it’s not typical that I blog about how things are going in the specific church plant I am at. But I am going to that just a little bit in this post because at the end of the day, I am a church planter, one who is daily in the trenches, one who has [...]