After years of church-shrinking, Japan is becoming alert to church multiplication. After attending a couple of Exponential Conferences, my friends launched “Hero Makers Japan.” Two weeks...
The next couple of decades will bring a tsunami of change to the American church. They will ensure the success of church multipliers while leaving others maintaining tightening budgets and shrinking...
My friend Richard Agozino developed a unique approach to discipling total strangers. It worked well, but I think we’re learning to do it better. In 1971 we planted the first Hope Chapel. In 1972...
Step out of line and you ensure the ire of the religious people among us. Three people illustrated this, nastily, when my wife and I first planted a church. Their deepest problem was fear of change...
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...
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...
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...
