Jun 5, 2019 | Church Planting
There are two main threats to church plants: money and people. Running out of both produces inevitable demise. The answer to both, ironically, simultaneously answers a question on how to produce replicating planting movements. If I said there are one of two ways for a...
May 17, 2019 | Church Planting, Missional
Please enjoy this repost and edit from 2015. This previous post describes one attribute common in church planting: if you’re brave enough to pioneer you have to deal with inevitable fear. Once you enter the fray by starting something new, when there’s no...
Apr 12, 2019 | Church Planting
For most institutions, the extent of their church planting know-how amounts to “have a service and they will come”. A tactic that starts in skinny jeans and ends in a soft-launch. Which is fine, but denominations can’t all be using the same strategy....
Nov 19, 2018 | Church Planting, Missional
What would it look like if we built church planters and leaders to join existing churches in the neighborhood regardless of affiliation? *Originally posted in 2015, edited, and reposted.* I remember when I started my first church plant in 2009. Within a couple of...
Oct 25, 2018 | Church Planting, Missional
***Originally posted December 1st, 2014 and updated with additions. This post was the precursor to about 3 chapters in my book, “Thrive” now available. *** In this post I want to use a model many of us are familiar with to describe how to build a growing...
Jun 28, 2018 | Church Planting, Missional
Cutting the Cost and Updating Development *Originally re-posted in May 2015, edited and re-posted.* I took an initial church planting assessment tool online and failed…. Turns out I don’t have what it takes. Despite planting two churches, a career as an...
Nov 21, 2017 | Church Planting
The recent church plant I co-planted called Cypher Church, is nearing the one-year anniversary mark. Long story short, the ride thus far has been incredible. We’re talking early church kind of incredible! Our first service last February was an Spirit encounter...
Sep 15, 2017 | Church Planting, Missional
Do you know the children’s rhyme that goes like this, “here is the church, here is the steeple, open the church, where are the people?!” The rhyme is dead wrong and most leaders would echo the same. The church isn’t the steeple it’s the...
Jun 1, 2017 | Church Planting
Building off a previous post on church planting comparing old and new paradigms of church planting, here is an anecdote about two types of church planters. One will fail and one will succeed. The context? My city of Calgary. Housing is really expensive here, most of...
Feb 14, 2017 | Church Planting
You haven’t heard a lot from me so for this year. That’s mostly because I’ve been working on selling my adult colouring book (it’s been a tough slog to get it into Christian bookstores, particularly in the USA, if you are a retailer let me...
