By Scott ThomasActs 29 President and Director
The qualities of a successful basketball player are consistent. He or she can dribble, shoot, pass, play defense, rebound, play as a team, think, move quickly and work hard. They don't have to do all of these at the same level but all of the qualities characterize a succesful player at the highest level.
Church planters similarily have qualities that determine their God-given capacity to plant a reproducing church.
Chuck Ridley, professor at Texas A&M University compiled the germinal research on church planting assessments with his Church Planter Profile (CPP). Most assessment instruments start with Ridley’s 13 characteristics in mind as they formulate their own church planter profiles. (Charles R. Ridley and Tweed ...
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Why Plant Churches?
by John Piper
There are about 200 million non-churched people in America, making America one of the four largest “unchurched” nations in the world.
Each year about 3,500 churches close their doors permanently.
Today, of the approximately 350,000 churches in America, four out of five are either plateaued or declining.
One American denomination recently found that 80% of its converts came to Christ in churches less than two years old.
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Steve Treichler of Hope Community Church in Minneapolis, MN was interviewed at our Louisville Boot Camp last month. Here he gives some advice to church planters in the areas of preparing to preach and being a one woman man.
For more advice on preparing to preach, check out clips from Darrin Patrick here.
For more on being a one woman man, as well as the other qualifications of a church planter, listen to Mark Driscoll's The Ox - Qualifications of an Acts 29 Church Plan...
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So you need an executive pastor. What do you look for? Who is the right guy? How does he fit with you as the lead planter/pastor? Jamie Munson, lead pastor at Mars Hill Church, shares what he sees as some key points to think through when looking for an Executive Pastor.
For advice from Nate Williams of Vintage 21 when hiring an executive pastor, ...
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So you need an executive pastor. What do you look for? Who is the right guy? How does he fit with you as the lead planter/pastor? Nate Williams, executive pastor at Vintage 21, shares what he sees as crucial characteristics that a lead pastor should look for in an executive pastor.
For advice when hiring a worship pastor, click ...
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