I’m writing this in Japan while on my way home from teaching for a week about church multiplication in Columbo, Sri Lanka. Actually, teaching pretty much the same material in both places. I’m...
Who are the people who fit in your church in spite of their own culture? They are “outliers” to the main body of your congregation. And they are potential microchurch planters if you can get your...
Church planting is becoming crucial to the survival of Christianity in America. Let’s stop gazing at the crop in the barns. We need to look at the fields yet unharvested. To pastor the biggest church...
Biases, both positive and negative, are part of everyone’s life. So what’s behind my aversion to bivocational pastoring and self-funding strategies? I’m not certain I can answer that… but as I...
I’ve not given bivocational church planting the respect it deserves. I’ve thought of it as an unsavory and occasionally unavoidable method-of-last-resort. I’ve seen it as a strategy to be employed...
My wife and I just returned from vacation throughout the British Isles (along with 52 friends from Hawaii). She and I arrived a few days early to teach a seminar with a small but growing group...
Our model is broken. For decades we’ve planted mid-size to large Hope Chapels in Hawaii. Mostly shooting for 150 at start, some grew beyond it. Most stabilized around the original size. Some shrank...