“We’re buying a sailboat so we can sail to Peru and spend a year surfing…” With those words my discipleship group broke up or at least floated into the sunset. I had spent...
Peter Drucker wrote that we must measure, or judge every effort. He added, “…the single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.” If results...
We were suspicious. His conversion story was bizarre at worst, unconventional at best. Tom McCarthy was a young medical doctor and faculty member at UCLA Medical Center. He showed up in church, in...
Some time ago, I spoke with a hurting former church planter. The church he led died a couple of years ago. He was feeling bad about the death of the church he loved. Where he saw failure, I saw a...
(NOTE: Watch a 4 minute video of Patrick) I moved from Ghana to the United States because of a command, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father...
The church in Mongolia is growing rapidly, mostly due to church planting. When I arrived in 2000, the pastors were a divided and competitive lot. Each was hoping to build a mega-church. My first trip...
Let’s consider making churches more easily reproducible. There are three costs involved in church planting. Each of which can be overcome by starting “simple churches” or “house churches” as...
