Letting ‘Movement’ Happen Isn’t Always Easy The idea of a local church fomenting a movement is unthinkable to some people. To certain denominational stalwarts it smacks of rebellion. To some...
How would you like to have a billion dollars worth or real estate to help with your newest church plant? We did and it was better than we expected. Illegal At The Beach We actually started our last...
I learned much about making disciples by watching an older man remain relevant to people much younger than himself. Nathaniel Van Cleave became my pastor at the height of my rebellious teen years...
The last seven days were incredible. My wife and I first attended the 45th anniversary of the first Hope Chapel in Hermosa Beach, Califonia (www.hopechapel.org) . We hung out with Zac and Julie...
Recently I was able to spend several hours hanging out with a church planter who is in trouble. It seems he called the wrong bunch when launching his church. This church plant was a congregation...
Two young boys taught me the essence of “true” disciplemaking. I grew up in an environment where making disciples meant working with another person to fill in the blanks in a book focused on the...
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...