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Focus

Oct
5
2009

Coaching, Church Planters, and Focus

Maintaining focus is critical for a church planter because it does not take many missed opportunities for them to get behind and not able to catch up.

Sep
9
2009

Evaluating Your Sunday Service, part 3

Are you trying to get feedback from your target audience after they attend a Sunday morning service? Are you willing to take the risk of not getting feedback?

Sep
9
2009

Evaluating Your Sunday Service, part 2

Without knowing your purpose, you won’t know if you’ve achieved it or how well you’re progressing toward it.

Sep
8
2009

Evaluating Your Processes

What church plant doesn’t need more resources and less frustration? Improving your processes provides both. You don’t have to be a nerd, just a good steward.

Aug
21
2009

Words That Cause Us to Cringe

If you haven’t heard it yet, you likely will. And it always comes from “seasoned” Christians–those who came from another church to your church plant to see if it would “meet their needs”….

Aug
12
2009

A Must If You Are A Church Planter

Building relationships with people far from God is a must for an externally focused church planter.

Jun
1
2009

What role does gender play in defining your audience?

There are more unchurched men than unchurched women. This fact should affect your audience for church planting.

May
22
2009

What good does having a target audience do for a plant?

If you plant a church without a target audience, you won’t ever reach your churches full potential. Knowing your target audience will enable you to effectively construct and create the kind of place where your target feels comfortable.

May
16
2009

How could planters from small church plants help others?

There are some valuable things to learn from small church plants. Staying focused on small plant issues is a core principle for lean churches.