This Planting w/ Small Groups “series” has kinda faltered, due mostly to a preaching class that drained my time and energy like a Christian vampire. The class is over (and I’m officially a graduate now, ha!), so my plan is to wrap up this series in short order. Look for Part 8 in the next [...]
Here’s the next installment in Church Planting with Small Groups…look for 2-3 more. In some ways, this item could be the most controversial, based on the very different approaches I’ve heard suggested. Feel free to push back on me here or give your take.
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North America is the home of “big-launch” church plants, celebrity pastors, multi-site campuses, video venues, and a bigger-is-better approach to ministry in general. However, pioneered by church planters and missiologists like Alan Hirsch and Neil Cole, the overlapping categories of small groups, cell groups, and house churches have [...]
Over the next several days I’ll be posting a series on Church Planting with Small Groups. These posts are drawn from a research paper I wrote last semester, and as such, they represent a shotgun approach to the diverse (and sometimes ambiguous) world of “best practices” in church planting.
However, I made a concerted attempt to [...]
Marty Schmidt is taking Stephen Gray’s 21 characteristics of fast-growing churches and walking through them, commenting on how each factor effected his planting experience.
