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Going to the Ends: Planting a Church In Inner City Birmingham (with Dan Terry)

Leave a Comment / Video, Church Planting, Podcast / Tom O'Toole

In this episode, Tom chats with Dan Terry who has spent the last few years planting Christ Church Birmingham in an inner-city community where he grew up. Dan shares the story of patient prayer, of the value of networking and of what it means to plant into a diverse and deprived community. The conversation covers the tension between having a wide focus or contextualising more narrowly, as we will as the importance of a solid theology of the Trinity when…

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Choosing a Name and Finding a Venue For Your Church Plant

Leave a Comment / Video, Church Planting, Podcast / Tom O'Toole

Two practical decisions that every church planter needs to make are what to call your church and where to meet. In this session we think about what makes a good name for a new church, and then think about how to find a venue, including what features the venue must and what kind of places might work for your needs.

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How to Run a Sunday Meeting In a Church Plant

Leave a Comment / Video, Church Planting, Podcast / Tom O'Toole

One of the big moments in a church plant is when you first launch a Sunday gathering. In this session we look at when is the best time to take this step, what time of day works best, and then work through some of the elements of the meeting itself, including the preaching, worship, communion, welcome, kids work, prayer and hosting the service.

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The Money Conversations Every Church Planter Needs to Have

Leave a Comment / Video, Church Planting, Podcast / Tom O'Toole

Working out what to do for a job and how to manage your money are crucial things for every church planter to think through, but they can be often missing from the conversation. In this session we look at the three main options for how you structure your work life, which jobs fit with church planting better than others, and how to think about your own finances before getting started. We also speak about the finances of the church plant…

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The Church Planting Evangelism Trap (and what to do instead)

Leave a Comment / Video, Church Planting, Podcast / Tom O'Toole

Every church planter knows that evangelism is important, but it can also be one of the biggest traps we face. In this session we talk about the dream that most church planters carry of reaching their community, but also why the reality looks different and we spend our time on things that look like evangelism but don’t actually produce the fruit we long for. Then we look at what we can do instead: making the most of what we already…

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What Does Church Planting Actually Look Like? The Five Stages Explained

Leave a Comment / Video, Church Planting, Podcast / Tom O'Toole

Church planting has a shape, and knowing what stage you are in helps you focus on the right things at the right time. In this session we walk through five stages: planning and dreaming, pioneering on the ground, building your first group, launching Sundays, and becoming an established church. Each stage has its own challenges, its own opportunities, and its own transition moment. Wherever you are in the journey, this session will help you see where you are and what…

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Building Your Church Planting Team

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Team is one of the first and most important things to get right in a church plant. In this session we look at how a team emerges through the stages of a plant, what the different types of people bring (foundations, bricks and scaffold), and how Paul’s approach in Philippi and Corinth gives us a model to follow. We also work honestly through four tensions every planting team faces – from sharing vision to giving away responsibility to navigating the…

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The Prayerless Church Planter Is Building the Wrong Thing

Leave a Comment / Video, Church Planting, Podcast / Tom O'Toole

The temptation in church planting is to treat prayer as something you do alongside the real work. This session argues for something different – that prayer is the mechanism by which your plant stays tethered to God’s mission rather than becoming your own project. We look at what it means to birth a church in prayer before you go public, how to build a gathered prayer culture from the very beginning, some of the big prayers worth praying, and why…

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How Do You Form a Vision For Your Church Plant?

Leave a Comment / Video, Church Planting, Podcast / Tom O'Toole

Calling tells you that God wants you to plant a church. Vision tells you what that church is meant to be. In this session we look at what vision actually is, how it differs from burden and strategy, and how you go about forming it: through the Great Commission, prophetic words, understanding your context, prayer, and time. We also look at how you communicate vision well, why it leaks, and what it feels like to carry something others can’t yet…

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How Do You Know If God Is Calling You to Plant a Church?

Leave a Comment / Video, Church Planting, Podcast / Tom O'Toole

Church planting starts with a question that can be hard to answer: is this actually what God wants me to do? In this session we work through how calling operates, from the general call of the Great Commission through to the personal and specific sense that God is speaking to you about this. We look at what that subjective sense feels like, how it gets confirmed through others, and what you do with it once you have it, including what…

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Going to the Ends: Planting a Church In Inner City Birmingham (with Dan Terry)

Choosing a Name and Finding a Venue For Your Church Plant

How to Run a Sunday Meeting In a Church Plant

The Money Conversations Every Church Planter Needs to Have

The Church Planting Evangelism Trap (and what to do instead)

What Does Church Planting Actually Look Like? The Five Stages Explained

Building Your Church Planting Team

The Prayerless Church Planter Is Building the Wrong Thing

How Do You Form a Vision For Your Church Plant?

How Do You Know If God Is Calling You to Plant a Church?

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