Sentences with phrase «of a church plant»

I think he has a pretty decent idea of church planting and organic church growth.

Most of the church plants grew by transfer growth, not church growth.

There's not a whole lot of church planting going on right now.

This kind of church planting does not require any fundraising.

We were promised $ 400,000 over a a period of three years from one of these church planting agencies.

It's not a long time in the world of church planting.

I've spent six years on the front line of church planting.

The previous post talked about how there are lots of church planting networks, but many of them are opposed to Free Grace Theology.

This is made worse when you realize that 70 % of all church plants fail.

I believe because we are driven by fear; the fear of church plants and the fear to plant churches.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: church growth, Church planting, Discipleship, evangelism, Theology of the Church

Sam Hailes investigates the successes of church plants in urban areas

New NAMB president, Geoff Hammond, has been facilitating a discussion about the future of church planting, evangelism, and sending missionaries in our convention.

One success story of church planting is in Bihar, known as «the land of Buddha» because it is where Siddhārtha Gautama attained enlightenment and gave many of his sermons.

right now, it's just two guys in the midst of church planting who want to help others plant too.

We are not growing, as much as I would like to say there are — I know of no church planting movements in the US — we will have to learn from them.

My friend Steve Bradshaw, director of church planting for the district, is introducing them here:

Last year, the folks at Leadership Network asked me a question: «What is the state and status of church planting in the U.S?»

Mez is also concerned that the vast majority of church planting is happening in more middle - class areas.

A common criticism of church plants is that they can become an exercise in rearranging the deckchairs, with Christians leaving their existing congregations and moving to a new church plant.

Today I was reading a discussion over at Bob Robert's blog about how getting conversions should not be the primary goal of church planting.

Jeremy heard of our idea in the context of church planting, and so he presented it in that way.

What they are doing is so simple anybody can do it, so innovative it is exciting to think about the possibilities, and so missional it could change the face of church planting.

Also, mainline denominations needs to become aware of the phenomenon of church planting among Protestants.

(For example, much of the church planting in the Reformed Church in America would be in the charismatic stream.)

Jim Petersen bases his book off of some church planting work he did in Brazil in the 1960s.

Each professor will be a scholar who has expertise in theology or missiology (or a related field) and a personal passion for the tasks of church planting and renewal.

Most Provocative: Andrew Jones with «9 Reasons NOT to Plant a Church in 2012» «The measurement criteria of the church planting project, focusing on numbers of attenders and momentum of new church launch, is too narrow, too shallow, un-holistic and ignores more vital measurable signs of a transformed society in its various spheres (economic, environmental, social, impact outside the church environment, etc).»

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God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Bob Roberts, Church planting, Discipleship, glocal, postmodernism, Theology of the Church

Denominations still matter — and they actually, for example, do most of the church planting in North America.

The Mission (our church plant), which even though it failed on paper, changed my life and gave me hope for the future of the Church

Peter Chin shares his family's story of church planting, cancer and trusting God when you have no idea what He is up to.

The success of church plants may be an imperfect metric of actual spiritual development, but it's part of what we have to go by.

The results, published in Love, Sweat & Tears: Church Planting in east London, showed that all of the church plants had been successful and overall Sunday attendance had grown tenfold over a decade.

«And the truth is, when you follow back the dynamite that's behind all of this church planting, you'll find yourself back at HTB.»

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Church planting, Kathy Escobar, ministry, mission, The Refuge, Theology of the Church

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: church growth, Church planting, Discipleship, evangelism, leadership, Theology of the Church

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: book, Books I'm Reading, church growth, Church planting, David Murrow, Discipleship, Theology of the Church

God is Redeeming Church, Redeeming Life Bible & Theology Topics: Acts 29, church, Church planting, Discipleship, grace, pastor, Theology of the Church

Hopefully, as I head toward church planting (see my two previous posts), at least one of the churches I plant will be a Church for Men.

Having been a part of a church plant that dissolved, I know first - hand what it feels like to fail... and to need a community of people with which to honestly struggle through that failure without fear of judgment.

Being a part of a church plant has forced me to confront a vicious cycle in my life, a cycle that goes something like this: 1) I resolve in my head to live like Jesus in community with those around me, 2) I start reading Shane Claiborne books and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, 3) I get overwhelmed by how impossible it all seems, 4) I get distracted by work and daily tasks, 5) I give up, 6) I feel guilty.