Six Types of People You Meet in Church Planting
by Todd Bumgarner, Lead Pastor at 2 Pillars Church in Lincoln, NE As a church planter, you are called to raise up disciples and leaders. It's an investment of time and energy that is critical to ...
Posts with tag: "Leadership"
Leadership Requires Strength by Grace
by Scott Thomas, President of Acts 29 Spiritual and church leadership is tough for even the best of leaders. Behind closed doors, every leader will admit being tired, frustrated, angry, depressed, ...
Posted in: Leadership, Spiritual Vitality, Emotional Health
Leadership is Shaking a Hand Too Exuberantly
By Scott Thomas, President of Acts 29 Network Jim Harbaugh, the first year coach of the San Francisco 49'ers created some controversy when his team beat the previously unbeaten Detroit Lions and ...
Posted in: Leadership
Four Indications of a Thriving Supernatural Church Plant
I do not think that the American church is dependent upon the Spirit's empowerment. Most of what takes place among our local gatherings may be able to occur without the Holy Spirit. This is tragic ...
7 Top Issues Church Planters Face | #5: Mission Drift
Casting Vision and Avoiding Mission Drift Church plants often lose sight of their direction, vision and resulted in mission drift in several different ways. Planters may struggle with pressure ...
Posted in: Leadership
7 Top Issues Church Planters Face | #3: Teams
Team Development and Volunteer Mobilization Mobilizing volunteers and building teams are major challenges, according to church planters. Mobilizing volunteers is an issue regardless of the size of ...
Posted in: Leadership
7 Top Issues Church Planters Face | #1: Leadership
Leadership Development and Reproducing Culture Planters face incredible pressure to find quality leaders quickly. Yet the limitations of money, critical mass, and spiritual maturity in new ...
Posted in: Leadership
One (Oft-Used) Leadership Tool
By Pastor Scott Thomas Church planting pastors usually experience a painful crash course in leadership. Very few seminaries teach this well and very few churches model this well. So, young ...
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The Pastor and His Wife Get to Pick Their Own Friends | Part 1
by Mark Driscoll As church planters, Grace and I learned the hard way what a friendship is and is not. Somehow, I got the silly notion that everyone who picked me to be their friend ...
Posted in: Marriage and Family, Emotional Health, Relationship Building
How Do You Define Small Group Success? Matt Carter on Mega-churches and Mission
Justin Anderson, Acts 29 leader of the Phoenix region, interviewed Matt Carter last fall on missional communities, the attractional model of church, and what it looks like to reach your city as a ...
Posted in: Mission
