Topic
Church Planting
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Church Planting: Practical Foundations
For anyone considering church planting, the starting point in our thinking isn't the strategy or vision for what we want to do but the story of God that is behind it all. This story tells of what God has been doing since before creation, and what he is still doing in the world today. In this course, we lay the theological foundations that every church planter needs. Across four sessions we trace the mission of God from the Trinity to the new creation, exploring why the church is central to that mission and not just a means to an end, look at the pioneering pattern of Jesus himself, and then follow that pattern as it plays out through Acts and the church at Antioch. If you want to plant a church that is rooted in something deeper than vision and strategy, start here.
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Church Planting: Biblical Foundations
For anyone considering church planting, the starting point in our thinking isn't the strategy or vision for what we want to do but the story of God that is behind it all. This story tells of what God has been doing since before creation, and what he is still doing in the world today. In this course, we lay the theological foundations that every church planter needs. Across four sessions we trace the mission of God from the Trinity to the new creation, exploring why the church is central to that mission and not just a means to an end, look at the pioneering pattern of Jesus himself, and then follow that pattern as it plays out through Acts and the church at Antioch. If you want to plant a church that is rooted in something deeper than vision and strategy, start here.
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The Challenges of Missional Leadership
A course to equip and prepare new leaders for Missional Leadership consisting of 9 sessions - all at the bite-size length of 15/20 minutes.
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Multi-Cultural Church Planting
Through conversations with those who have experience of multi-cultural churches this 8-session course unpacks what is involved in laying foundations for a multi-cultural church. Experience shows that it is much easier to build on the right foundations rather than to relay the foundations once a church has started.
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Change For Growth (Church Planters)
Change management is a pivotal skill for leaders of all levels to develop and to go on developing. Over the coming months, Broadcast will be presenting a course of webinars called 'Change For Growth' where we delve into questions of how to manage change in different contexts.
There were will be three tiered levels to this course: for church planters, for church leaders and for movement leaders. This is the course for church planters.
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Gathering Your Core Team
One of the first and biggest challenges faced by a church planter is gathering a team. This marks the transition from a private vision of what you think calling you to do to the start of a church being birthed. Can you find others who will buy into the vision and join you on the journey? In this course we start to look at how you build this team and what kind of people you want to recruit to it.
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Exploring Your Call
Church planting can be tough, and one of the things that keeps us going through the hard times is a sense that we are doing is not merely a good human initiative, but something that God has called us to do.
In this course we explore the topic of calling, looking first at what the Bible means when it talks about calling, and then exploring how can discern whether or not we are being called to church planting and what difference this makes.
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Church Planting & Your Family Life
When you plant a church, you are venturing into a new world. It often means leaving behind settled routines and friendships, embracing change and it can be quite lonely. These impacts are not only felt by the planter themselves but the whole family. In this course we start to unpick what church planting means for your marriage and for your kids as you step out together on this adventure with God.
Broadcasts 80 items
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Going to the Ends: Planting a Church In Inner City Birmingham (with Dan Terry)
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Choosing a Name and Finding a Venue For Your Church Plant
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How to Run a Sunday Meeting In a Church Plant
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The Money Conversations Every Church Planter Needs to Have
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The Church Planting Evangelism Trap (and what to do instead)
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What Does Church Planting Actually Look Like? The Five Stages Explained
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Building Your Church Planting Team
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The Prayerless Church Planter Is Building the Wrong Thing
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How Do You Form a Vision For Your Church Plant?
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How Do You Know If God Is Calling You to Plant a Church?
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Why Did the Early Church Take So Long to Start Spreading? And What Finally Got Them Moving?
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Jesus Left the Best Church He Ever Built.
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Why Plant Churches? What the New Testament’s Images of the Church Reveal
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The Mission Behind the Mission: What Church Planting Is Really About
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Interviews with Martyn Dunsford on Global Mission
Martyn Dunsford shares how learning to hear God's voice became the catalyst for his calling into global mission work. Church leaders will discover practical wisdom about discerning God's direction and the courage it takes to step into cross-cultural ministry, whether you're planting churches, leading congregations, or supporting missionaries in the field.
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How to Plant a Church Without Killing Yourself (with Matt Hatch)
Matt Hatch is the leader of Mosaic Church in Leeds, which is part of the Catalyst family of churches in Newfrontiers, and he has helped train and oversee many Newfrontiers church plants. In this Broadcast, Matt talks about how to plant a church in a way that is healthy for you as the planter!
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Church Planting Into Unreached Communities (with Sam Foulds)
Sam Foulds is an Anglican minister who has recently taken oversight of two church plants in deprived and minority communities in Manchester. In this Broadcast we interview Sam about his experiences of taking leadership in a church plant that he didn't start, ministering through others, and working into communities where there is very little gospel presence.
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Faith For Growth (with Andrey Bondarenko)
Andrey Bondarenko has pioneered and now leads a group of churches and church plants in Ukraine, Russia, India and other nations. Many of these churches are located in areas that have been ravaged by war, primarily due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and some are in places where their faith is opposed by the new government. In this hangout, Andrey talks about Faith for Growth.
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Know What You’re Building (with Andrew Davies)
Andrew Davies has planted churches in the North West of England and in South Wales. He is currently the leader of Hope Church Rhydyfelin in Pontypridd, which he planted with a small team in 2014. In this Broadcast, Andrew talks about the importance of vision and having a clear idea of what you are building.
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Have a Soft Heart, Tough Skin & Other Things I Have Learned Planting a Church
Rich Crosby is a native Canadian who returned to Canada from Brighton, England in early 2016 and launched Grace City Church in his home. In January 2017, Grace City started regular Sunday meetings, and since then the church has grown and seen people added. In this Broadcast, Rich shares some of the biggest lessons that he has learned along the way.
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Rooting Church Planting In the Story of God (with Trevor Hutton)
God has a mission in the world, and as Jesus sent the church out he was drawing us into God's big mission. In this Broadcast, Trevor Hutton from the Nazarene Theological College in Manchester talks about how we can root our church planting in the story of God.
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How to Get New Students to Join Your Church Plant
Tim shares a Broadcast training video about how important students are to a church plant and how you can make your church a place they want to be.
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Inhabiting the Public Square (with Robin Vincent and Thom Lynch)
Robin Vincent and Thom Lynch are part of the Hill Church in Swansea and have pioneered the Matthew's House project engaging with the need in the town. In this Broadcast, they tell the story of the phenomenal success of this project and help us think through how our church plants can serve the poor.
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Starting a Church Planting Movement on a Shoestring (with Tim Simmonds)
Tim Simmonds is a church planter and leader who is currently based in Manchester. In this Broadcast he talks about starting a church planting movement on a shoestring.
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Fighting For Early Converts (with Steve Hurd)
Steve Hurd has planted churches in several cities in the North of England. In this Broadcast, he speaks about Fighting For Early Converts.
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One Thing That Shaped Decades of Ministry (with Colin Baron)
Colin Baron is a church planting Yoda who has been involved in starting many new churches in Manchester, elsewhere in England and in many other nations. In this classic episode from the Broadcast archive, Colin shares a key principles that has shaped decades of ministry for him.
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What to Prioritise In Your Sunday Meetings
Tim shares a Broadcast training video about what a church plant should prioritise in their Sunday meetings.
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Sunday Meetings In a Church Plant (with Mark Landreth Smith)
Mark Landreth-Smith has planted loads of churches and currently leads the Bridge Church in Newbury. In this Broadcast he talks about how to do Sunday meetings in church plants.
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Praying For Two Rooms and a Cupboard
Broadcast training video where Tim discusses what to look for in a venue in the early days of a church plant.
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The Prayer Life of a Church Planter (with Andrew Vertigan)
Andrew Vertigan is a mission enabler for the Salvation Army and Fresh Expressions. In this Broadcast, he talks about a church planter's prayer life.
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Team Needs a Target
Broadcast training video with Tim about how to recruit your core team in a church plant.
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Building Teams In a Church Plant (with Geoff Surratt)
Geoff Surratt is a prolific church planter and movement leader, who has served as Pastor for Church Planting at Saddleback Church. In this Broadcast he speaks about Building Teams in Church Plants.
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How to Recruit Your Church Planting Team
Broadcast training video with Tim about how to recruit your core team in a church plant.
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Faith For Other People
Church planters often have faith for their own ministry, but it is just as important to have faith for other people in our church plants. In this podcast episode, Tom O'Toole from Christ Church Manchester looks at what it means to have faith for other people.
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Faith and Church Planting (with Neville Jones)
Neville Jones leads Mosaik Church, a church plant in the heart of Berlin, and has worked with many other churches planted by Church of Christ the King in Brighton. In this Broadcast, Neville talks about the crucial role that faith plays in church planting and shares some of the story of how this has enabled him to build and plant in Berlin.
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Faith In the Start-Up Phase
Broadcast training video where Tim talks about the necessity of faith in the startup phase of a new church plant.
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When God Calls (with Judith Anniss)
Judith Anniss is a part of the team that leads King's Church in Manchester, which is part of the Pioneer movement of churches. Judith heads up the Longsight site of King's Church. In this Broadcast, Judith talks about how God calls us to ministry, sharing Biblical principles, personal testimony and practical applications for us all.
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Our First Year In Church Planting (with John & Abi Flavell)
In this Broadcast, Abi and John Flavell, who are leading River City Church in Hull talk about their experiences in their first year of church planting.
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Help From Other Church Planters Is Essential
Broadcast training video with Tim talking about how important it is to receive help from other church planters.
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You Need Help
Broadcast training video from Tim talking about how church planters need help!
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Spiritual Gifts In a Church Planting Context
Broadcast training video from Tim discussing the use of spiritual gifts in a church planting context.
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How Prophecy Can Help and Hinder a Church Plant
Broadcast training video from Tim about the use of prophecy in a church planting context.
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How to Hear God In Your Church Plant
In this Broadcast Andy Martin provides Biblical and practical instruction on how we can hear the prophetic voice of God in our church plants.
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How to Contextualise Yourself
Broadcast training video from Tim about the need to understand and contextualise your church plant to yourself.
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How to Reach Your Context (with Liam Thatcher)
In this Broadcast Liam Thatcher from Christ Church London shares Biblical principles of contextualisation for our church planting ministry.
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How to Learn Your City
Broadcast church planting video with Tim about how to learn the city that you are looking to plant a church into.
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How to Fail
Broadcast church planting video from Tim about what to do with failure in church planting.
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How to Pick Your Leaders
Broadcast training video with Tim talking about how to choose leaders in a church plant.
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How to Pace a Church Plant (with Mark Mumford)
Mark Mumford leads the apostolic team that heads up Salt and Light churches in the UK. In this interview, he talks about how to pace a new church plant.
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When Do You Up the Pace In Your Church Plant?
Broadcast training video with Tim talking about how you pace a church plant.
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How to Rest Well
Broadcast training video where Tim talks about the need for church planters to rest well.
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Pace Is More Important Than You Realise (with Colin Baron)
Colin Baron has been involved in dozens of church plants over the last 25 years. In this hangout, he talks about why pace is such an important factor.
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How to Multiply Musicians
Broadcast training video with Tim looking at how to multiply musicians in a church plant.
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Multiplying Disciples and Churches (with Steve Addison)
Steve Addison works with church planting movements all over the world. In this hangout, he speaks about how to multiply disciples and churches.
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How Going For Big Is Keeping You Small (with Tom O’Toole)
Tom O'Toole is a leader at Christ Church Manchester and he manages Broadcast. In this hangout, Tom will look at how multiplication is God's growth dynamic.
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How to Multiply Leaders
Broadcast training video with Tim talking about how to multiply leaders in a church plant.
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The Pioneering Family (with Matt & Jo Simmonds)
It is one thing to pioneer alone, but another to move four young girls to a new country. In this hangout, we talk to Jo and Matt Simmonds about their story.
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The Call to Pioneer (with Colin Baron)
Colin Baron has planted dozens of churches over the last 25 years. In this hangout, he is teaching on the Biblical call to pioneer.
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How to Recruit Pioneers
Broadcast training video with Tim looking at how to recruit pioneers into your church plant.
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My Life’s Message (with Colin Baron)
Colin Baron leads Christ Church Manchester and is the founder of the Broadcast Network. In this hangout, he shares about his life's church planting message.
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Getting a Church Plant Started (with David Holey)
David Holey planted the Eckstein Lighthouse Church in Dresden. In this hangout, he talks about how to grow a church from 0 to 40 people.
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A Confident Spirit: Becoming the Pioneer the Church Needs In This Age (with Anthony Delaney)
Anthony Delaney leads Ivy Churches in Manchester and New Thing Europe. In this hangout, he talks about the need for church planting pioneers.
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Dreaming of Big Wins (with Chris Taylor)
Chris Taylor planted and leads Redeemer Church in the Hague. In this hangout, he talks about dreaming of big wins in our church planting.
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Fighting For Small Wins
Tim Simmonds is one of the leaders of Christ Church Manchester and in this hangout he talks about the need to fight for small wins in church planting.
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It’s All About People (with Phil Whittall)
Phil Whittall leads Grace Church in Stockholm. In this hangout, he talks about discipleship in a church planting context.
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Carving Out a Church Plant (with Robin Vincent)
Robin Vincent is currently planting his third church. In this hangout, he talks about what is involved in carving out a church plant.
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Engaging Local Communities (with Andy Hawthorne)
Andy Hawthorne set up and runs the Message Trust. In this hangout, he talks to church planters about how they can engage local communities.
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How Church Plants Engage Communities (with Jim Harper)
Jim Harper leads the Encounter Congregation of Hope Church Worcester. In this interview, he talks of how church plants can engage local communities.
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City Impact Through Hyperlocal Engagement (with Tim Simmonds)
Tim Simmonds is one of the leaders of Christ Church Manchester and in this hangout he talks about how we can impact cities through engaging locally.
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God’s Promises & the Vision of a Church Plant (with Stef Liston)
Stef Liston planted and now leads Revelation Church in North London. In this hangout he talks about how God's promises shape our church planting vision.
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Building a Global Focus In Your Church Plant (with Andy Martin)
In this hangout, Andy Martin from Woodside Church in Bedford teaches us how we can build a global focus into our church plants.
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Churches That Transform Communities (with Andy Hawthorne)
Andy Hawthorne leads the Message Trust, serving communities across the world. In this hangout he speaks about how churches can reach communities.
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Maintaining an Evangelistic Focus (with Mike Hewett)
Mike Hewett planted and leads Church for the City in East London. In this hangout he teaches us how to keep an evangelistic focus in a church plant.
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Engaging the Mobilise Generation In Church Planting (with Tom Shaw)
For years, Tom Shaw ran the Mobilise conference for students and 20s. In this hangout, he talks about how to engage this generation in church planting.
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Using Technology to Build Your Church Plant (with Adrian Warnock)
Adrian Warnock is a well-known Christian blogger, writer and church leader. In this hangout, he talks about how to use technology to grow our church plants.
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Laying a Foundation of Prayer (with Terry Virgo)
Terry Virgo has planted and overseen many churches in the Newfrontiers movement. In this hangout he teaches us how we can lay a foundation of prayer.
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Building Your Core Team (with Dave Henson)
Dave Henson has planted churches in the UK and in Russia. In this hangout he shares his experience on how to gather a core team for a church plant.
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Seven Lessons From a Lifetime of Church Planting (with David Devenish)
David Devenish has been planting churches since before church planting was cool. He shares 7 lessons that he has learned from a life of church planting.
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What’s the Holy Spirit Got to Do With It? (with Mike Betts)
Mike Betts teaches a Broadcast hangout on the pivotal role that the Holy Spirit has to play when we are planting new churches.
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Two Approaches to Church Planting (with Howard Kellett)
Howard Kellett teaches a hangout on two different approaches to church planting - attractional church and everyday church.
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Building Multicultural Churches (with Tony Thompson)
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Training the Next Wave of Church Planters (with Martin Tibbert)
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Place, Rootedness and Church Planting (with Paul Harrison)
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Think The Best Culture
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Have a Go Culture
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Second Chance Culture
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Culture Matters
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So You Want To Go Multisite?: Vision For Multisite
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Multi-Cultural Church Planting Live Q&A (with Tony Thompson)
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Start With Why’ (with Ralph Cunnington)
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Together, for the City’ (with Jonathan Bell)
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Why You Must Be Involved In Church Planting’ (with Femi Osunnuyi)
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Planting Churches that Plant Churches’ (with Neil Powell)
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Seven Keys for Collaborating Well (with Femi Osunnuyi)
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Church Planting Into Rural Communities (interview with Ben Harrison)
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Cross-Cultural Mission in Manchester (with Rosie Crooks)
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Cross-Cultural Church Planting: A Decade of Learning (II)
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Cross-Cultural Church Planting: A Decade of Learning (I)
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Cross Cultural Mission in Stockholm (with Tim Simmonds & Phil Whittall)
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Confidence to Break Through In Mission – An Interview with Martyn Dunsford
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How To Hear God For Global Mission: An Interview With Martyn Dunsford
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Multiplying The Mission
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Church Planting Mistakes – The Effect of Gathering New People
Tim and Matt Simmonds are church planting brothers who are pioneering churches in Manchester and Amsterdam. In this series of podcast episodes they discuss mistakes they have made along the way. Today they interview Pete Cornford who has planted two churches in London about the effect of gathering people into a church plant.
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Church Planting Mistakes – I’ll Take Anyone
Tim and Matt Simmonds are church planting brothers who are pioneering churches in Manchester and Amsterdam. In this series of podcast episodes they discuss mistakes they have made along the way. Today they interview Phil Whittall who has planted in Stockholm about being willing to take anyone in a church plant.
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The Rise and Fall of Movement (with Steve Addison)
Steve Addison is a Christian leader who has studied multiplying movements. In this episode of the podcast we talk to Steve about the ideas in his newest book - The Rise and Fall of Movements.
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Church Planting Mistakes – Overthinking Contextualisation Can Slow You Down
Tim and Matt Simmonds are church planting brothers who are pioneering churches in Manchester and Amsterdam. In this series of podcast episodes they discuss mistakes they have made along the way. Today they talk about how we can sometimes overthink contextualisation.
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Church Planting Mistakes – People Don’t Want to Talk About Money
Tim and Matt Simmonds are church planting brothers who are pioneering churches in Manchester and Amsterdam. In this series of podcast episodes they discuss mistakes they have made along the way. Today they talk about the idea that people don't want to talk about money.
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Church Planting Mistakes – Your Church Plant Will Be Successful
Tim and Matt Simmonds are church planting brothers who are pioneering churches in Manchester and Amsterdam. In this series of podcast episodes they discuss mistakes they have made along the way. Today they talk about the myth that your church plant will be successful.
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Church Planting Mistakes – People Will Follow You
Tim and Matt Simmonds are church planting brothers who are pioneering churches in Manchester and Amsterdam. In this series of podcast episodes they discuss mistakes they have made along the way. Today they talk about the myth that people will join the church because they follow you.
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Church Planting Mistakes – Do Numbers Matter?
Tim and Matt Simmonds are church planting brothers who are pioneering churches in Manchester and Amsterdam. In this series of podcast episodes they discuss mistakes they have made along the way. Today they talk about how important numbers are in church plant.
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Church Planting Mistakes – Preaching Is Not Important
Tim and Matt Simmonds are church planting brothers who are pioneering churches in Manchester and Amsterdam. In this series of podcast episodes they discuss mistakes they have made along the way. Today they talk about thinking that preaching is important.
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Church Planting Mistakes – I Know What I’m Doing
Tim and Matt Simmonds are church planting brothers who are pioneering churches in Manchester and Amsterdam. In this series of podcast episodes they discuss mistakes they have made along the way. Today they talk about starting out thinking that "I Know What I am Doing."
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Building a Prayer Culture
When we are planting and leading churches, prayer is crucial. In this episode of the podcast we look at how we can build a prayer culture in the ministry we lead.
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Shepherding a Worship Time (with Simon Brading)
The CCM School of Leadership was created by Christ Church Manchester to train and equip those with a leadership gift to lead well wherever they are. We we were recently joined by Simon Brading from Emmanuel Church in Brighton and Newday, who taught about practical skills for shepherding a worship time.
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Contextualisation and Cities (with Simon Brading)
The CCM School of Leadership was created by Christ Church Manchester to train and equip those with a leadership gift to lead well wherever they are. We we were recently joined by Simon Brading from Emmanuel Church in Brighton and Newday, who taught on how to contextualise our worship to our cities.
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Worshipping in Truth (with Simon Brading)
The CCM School of Leadership was created by Christ Church Manchester to train and equip those with a leadership gift to lead well wherever they are. We we were recently joined by Simon Brading from Emmanuel Church in Brighton and Newday, who taught on what it is to worship in truth.
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Worshipping In Spirit (with Simon Brading)
The CCM School of Leadership was created by Christ Church Manchester to train and equip those with a leadership gift to lead well wherever they are. We we were recently joined by Simon Brading from Emmanuel Church in Brighton and Newday, who taught on what it is to worship in spirit.
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Church Planting Is Stupid (Unless God Is In It)
Christ Church Manchester are launching the fifth site of their church in Manchester City Centre and at a dry run event, Tom O'Toole spoke about how church planting only makes sense if God is in it.
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Planting Churches In a Warzone (with Andrey Bondarenko)
Andrey Bondarenko, with his wife Natasha and three children, leads a group of 35 church plants in Ukraine, India and Russia. Many of them are placed in areas that have been ravaged by war, primarily due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and some are in places where their faith is opposed by the new government. In this episode of the podcast, Andrey shares his experiences of church planting and war.
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Planting Churches In A Warzone With Andriy Bondarenko
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Four Callings That Framed Forty Years of Ministry
Colin Baron is a church planting Yoda who has been involved in starting many new churches in Manchester, elsewhere in England and in many other nations. Colin currently leads Christ Church Manchester, which is part of the Catalyst Network of churches in Newfrontiers and he is the founder of the Broadcast Network. In this podcast episode, we interview Colin about the key calling moments he has had over forty years of ministry.
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Be a Student; Plant a Church
One of things often said at Christ Church Manchester is 'Be a Student; Plant a Church'. In this episode of the podcast, we speak to Heather Chiles, who is doing just that, about her experience of planting a church in Manchester City Centre.
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Four One-Liners That Change Everything
Greg and Geoff Surratt are church planters who have been involved in leading and planting many churches in the United States and beyond, including Seacoast Church in South Carolina. They were recently in the UK leading a training day on multisite church, and in this episode of the podcast Tom O'Toole shares a few of the key one-liners that he took away from the event.
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The Power of Prophecy to Get Churches Unstuck
Tom O'Toole is part of the team that leads Christ Church Manchester and manages the Broadcast Network. In this episode, Tom tells the story of how one of the CCM churches in Manchester got stuck and the role that prophecy played in getting that church unstuck.
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Making Space For Leaders
Colin Baron is a church planting Yoda who has been involved in starting many new churches in Manchester, elsewhere in England and in many other nations. Colin currently leads Christ Church Manchester, which is part of the Catalyst Network of churches in Newfrontiers and he is the founder of the Broadcast Network. In this podcast episode, we interview Colin about how to make space for new leaders.
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The Four Stages of a Church Plant
Colin Baron is a church planting Yoda who has been involved in starting many new churches in Manchester, elsewhere in England and in many other nations. Colin currently leads Christ Church Manchester, which is part of the Catalyst Network of churches in Newfrontiers and he is the founder of the Broadcast Network. In this podcast episode, we interview Colin about the distinct stages of a church plant.
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Pacing Yourself For a Lifetime of Church Planting
Anthony Henson currently leads Grace Church Wolverhampton, his eighth church plant in the last 30 years. In this podcast episode, we talk to Anthony about what it takes to keep going for a lifetime of church planting.
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Send Your Superstars
Tom O'Toole is part of the team that leads Christ Church Manchester, and he manages the Broadcast Network. In this episode of the podcast, Tom tells the story of how CCM transitioned from growing a regional church to pioneering a multiplying church planting movement, and looks at how the church in Antioch in the book of Acts were called to give up what they couldn't afford to lose by sending the apostles Barnabas and Paul out as travelling church planting missionaries.
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When Church Plants Fail
Tom O'Toole is part of the team that leads Christ Church Manchester and manages the Broadcast Network. In 2011, Tom and his wife Emma moved from London to Greater Manchester in order to be involved in church planting. Tom tells the story of their attempt to plant a church in Salford, why the church plant didn't work, and looks at what it means to 'fail well' when it comes to church planting.
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The Pioneering Bridgehead
Colin Baron is a church planting Yoda who has been involved in starting many new churches in Manchester, elsewhere in England and in many other nations. Colin currently leads Christ Church Manchester, which is part of the Catalyst Network of churches in Newfrontiers and he is the founder of the Broadcast Network. In this podcast episode, we interview Colin about the role of pioneering bridgeheads in church planting.
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Preaching In a Plant: Seven Areas to Focus On
Preaching is a critical area of church life, and one that it is important to be constantly growing in. We have identified seven areas of the preaching craft that we look to develop in our up and coming preachers.
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Principled, Contextual Leadership
One of the things that you learn before long in church leadership is that often decisions are made that affect people, and yet those people themselves had no say in the decision. Sometimes you will be the one tasked with representing that decision to them. Sometimes you will be the one who the decision affects. Walking these situations well requires deep convictions, pastoral skill and lots of humility.
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Planting Word and Spirit Churches
In the churches that we lead, Word and Spirit belong together. As we continue planting new churches, we shouldn't assume that this convergence will happen on its own. It is a key value that we should build in from the start.
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The Church Planter’s Finance
The early stages of a church plant can be one of the most challenging seasons of a planter's life. In this article, we will be looking at what you can do to manage the pressures that come financially.
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How to Plant a Church With No Money
Depending on what stage of the plant you are at, planting a church with no money is either very easy or very hard. Money should never be the be all and end all, but it would be foolish to pretend that it is not an important element of the church planting process. In this article, we suggest three things you should be thinking about when you want to plant a church but have no money.
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Preparing For the Mission, Heading to the Field
Everyone is responsible for evangelising in some form. It is one of the main objectives of the Church. It is the Great Commission. It is our mission as local churches. This begs the question; how do we evangelise as a small church plant?
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Building a Brand For a Church Plant
It feels slightly strange to be writing about branding on a website that has a primary focus on church planting. Chances are there are a good bunch of people, both in corporate marketing and in church-planting world, who would object that branding and church do not belong together. I beg to differ, for I believe every church already has a brand - whether or not they know it or helped to create it.
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Creating & Establishing the Identity of Your Church Plant
Who am I? This is one of humanity’s primary questions. From the dawn of time to the present mankind has asked this pivotal question. This question has spread itself into different elements of life including theology, philosophy, biology, culture, sexuality and others. It is a question that can have many answers from these various spheres. It is also a question we ask when planting churches. A church plant's identity is crucial. There are many avenues we could wind down in pursuit of our plant’s identity. I just want to highlight key areas that I believe may help you create and then establish your identity.
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25 Easy Hacks For a Better Sunday Meeting
Getting a Sunday meeting right in a church plant is a combination of oodles of tiny factors. Here are 25 easy hacks for a better Sunday meeting:
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Cultivating a Family Culture In Your Sunday Meeting
The beauty of how our Sunday meeting reflects the wider family of believers is in how no one new should feel like they aren't immediately part of it – but as if they always have been. Church family is at once both intimate and open, familiar yet ever expanding.
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Sundays Matter – Making a Big Noise With a Small Crowd
I believe that Sundays matter and there is a philosophy behind everything we do every Sunday. I want to give a few brief summaries of the high bar we are aiming for.
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Finding a Venue For a Church Plant
When you are church planting, you are usually starting with nothing. You typically have few people, probably no money and it is very unlikely that you have a building to call your own. In this article we will think about how to find an ideal venue for a church plant to meet in.
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Humility: The Understated Ingredient of a Healthy Team
By working as part of a team it means you are striving together to give something glory, or the more apt Hebrew translation of 'weight'; this is no different in the secular world. It is therefore tempting to shift the dynamic of such a group so that much of our concern is in fact the glorification of the self. How do we look? Are we being appreciated? Are we getting the thanks we deserve? It is therefore an environment where the 'self' can be heavily projected. Since there is no greater catalyst for decaying a team than pride, in this article I want to talk about humility. Rather than the projection and upholding of the self, humility is thinking of yourself less. Only through humility can we truly serve and honour the church, and reveal the beauty of God to others.
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10 Types of People You Want In Your Church Planting Team
People are your most precious commodity in a church plant, and at this stage we need to work hard for each and every person we are able to gather to the cause. It would be neither strategic nor godly to be too discriminating about our team. Part of the challenge of church planting is figuring out how to build something using what we have in front of us.
Nevertheless, there are certain types of people who are absolute dynamite in a church planting setting. Where possible you should be looking to add these kinds of people to your team, and you should do what you can to foster these qualities both in yourself and in those alongside you.
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Being a Team the Ephesian Way
The concept of team is universal, broad and multi-faceted. The practice and fruit of team can be applied to many domains and in a variety of contexts. The context in which I want to briefly apply the idea of team is in a church plant and my prayer is that you find it helpful, applicable and translatable to your unique environment. Please take away the Biblical principles I put forward and I’ll leave you to apply them to your contexts, whether that be planting, employment, family or other kingdom work.
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The Five Phases of a Church Planting Team
ou may have heard it said that church planting is a lonely business. You may have also heard that the people who start with you won't be the people that finish with you. Both of these comments have an element of truth to them (though by no means are they true in every case), and they speak to the reality that developing a team in a church plant should be one of the key priorities for a planter. What this team looks like will vary depending on the phase of your church planting journey that you are in.
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Faith and Adventure: How to Get Unstuck
There are few things that drain the faith of the people quicker than inertia, particularly when it seems like even the leaders have no compelling faith or narrative of what God may be doing. When you are stuck, the number one priority must be to somehow get unstuck.
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Building an Antioch Spirit Into Your Church
The church in Antioch was based in one of the most influential cities of its time, and yet its outlook went way beyond simply reaching its own city (they could surely have a got a great thing going there). Instead, they were ready and eager to release people in their callings to see God's kingdom spread across the known world - and they were even willing to send their superstars to see it happen.
Often when we talk about calling, our minds instantly gravitate to the question "What does God want me to do with my life?". This is, of course, a very important question, but equally important is to understand the callings that God has given to others (particularly those in our churches) and to think through how we can support them in living out those callings.
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Am I Called to Plant a Church?
Church planting is one of the very best ways of spreading the Gospel and seeing God's kingdom grow, and so it makes sense that as we are looking at what God might want for us in our lives, we consider church planting.
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Diary of a Church Planter (by Mark Landreth Smith)
Mark Landreth-Smith is currently planting Bridge Church in Newbury, West Berkshire. He is ably assissted by his wife Beverley and daughter Phoebe. Before that, Mark was involved in planting churches in Chertsey, Farnham and Cambeley in the UK.
In this diary, Mark recorded some of the significant highs and lows of the year of planting the Bridge Church.
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Is Calling a Thing?
The Bible has a lot to say about calling, and it isn't always talking about exactly the same thing. When we speak of being 'called to plant a church', it is important to know the different types of calling the Bible refers to and exactly what each of them is all about in order to know what to do with any callings that we may or may not have.
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How to Choose a Name For a Church Plant
One of the very first decisions that every church planter will need to make is choosing a name for their church plant.
Just like when choosing a name for a child, personal taste plays a big role in the name that you choose. Nevertheless, it is worth giving careful thought to this decision because changing a name later in life is not an easy process, and it is likely that you will need to live with your choice for a long time.
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A Guide to Church Planting (by Mark Landreth-Smith)
Mark Landreth-Smith is currently planting Bridge Church in Newbury, West Berkshire. He is ably assissted by his wife Beverley and daughter Phoebe. Before that, Mark was involved in planting churches in Chertsey, Farnham and Cambeley in the UK.
This guide is designed to help those thinking about church planting or who are on the adventure of starting a new church think through some of the practical issues.
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Five ‘Dos’ and Five ‘Donts’ of Prophecy In a Church Plant
Prophecy is one of the most powerful gifts that God has given to his church, and many of us will be able to recall times when prophetic words have been shared that have lifted people's heads, inspired faith and helped people to worship God.
This can be particularly true in a church planting situation. At such a crucial stage in the formation of the church, the positive impact of hearing a word from God can be multiplied.
However, it also the case that the impact of unhelpful, cringey or just plain weird words can also be greater in a church plant. It is part of the role of the church plant leader to create an atmosphere where prophecy can flourish without getting weird.
Here are a few 'do's and 'dont's that we have found helpful.
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5 Questions Every Church Planter Needs to Ask
For church planters, going in knowing all of 'the answers' is a temptation. The desire to have a go often comes with a catalogue of things that you want to do differently from the place you came from. Besides, you have seen what worked for Keller/Pilavachi/some other big dog. That's bound to work for you too, right?
Thurber's observation is an astute one. The comparative value of the 'answers' that you have figured out before you hit the ground is low compared to the value of knowing what questions to ask when you get there.
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How to Use Christmas In a Church Plant
Christmas is a bit of a weird one when you are church planting.
It can feel like it ought to be one of the key moments of your year, and yet it is often unclear exactly what you can do to make the most of the season.
Here are three suggestions to consider as you plan for Christmas in your church plant.
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The Bivocational Question
When you consider how to pace a church plant, one of the key questions that you need to consider is whether or not the church should employ the lead planter. Depending on the decision you make, you could have the opportunity to grow the church much more quickly, but also the pressure for that growth to come in order to remain sustainable.
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10 Reasons Church Planters Burn Out (& How to Avoid It)
Most of us who have been around the church scene for long enough have encountered more than a few former church planters who have hit the ministry scrap heap because of burnout. Sometimes this burnout takes the form of a spectacular explosion and other times it is the culmination of a gradual process, but either way it is destructive to the planter, to their family and to the whole church, and we should avoid it like the plague.
Here are 10 of the most common factors that lead to burnout:
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How to Prepare For Planting a Church
A church plant has many more gears than just neutral and fifth. It is by going through each of the gears, building appropriately at each stage and then when the moment arrives gradually increasing the intensity that a new church plant can be birthed in a way that is natural and strong, that minimises the risk of the planter or their team burning out, and that means that the investment from a sending church can be made in a much more manageable way.
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8 Things You Need to Reach a Region
At Christ Church Manchester, we are unapologetic in our desire to reach the whole of Greater Manchester. Building one church in Manchester (even a very good church) can't come close to achieving this, so we are trying to multiply across the region and start new churches in every community of our city (and we also get very excited when we hear of other people planting churches here too - three million is a lot of people to reach!)
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The Pioneering Mandate
As God's people we have been called to pioneer. But this comes with challenges. In this article, we look at two of those challenges.
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Three Levels of Multiplication
Growth by addition is both safe and attractive because it can stay in the realm of the specialists. If most people in your church do nothing, and a few gifted evangelists win some souls, then you will grow a bit. If most churches do nothing, but one or two apostolic leaders get a little bit of church planting going then the number of churches in your movement will grow a bit.
But multiplication is different.
For a congregation to be doubled, tripled or increased ten-fold requires more than just a handful of evangelists at work. It will take everyone.
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10 More Lessons From Biblical Pioneers
In a recent hangout on the call to pioneer, Colin Baron picked out some prominent Biblical pioneers and drew lessons from their lives. In this article, we continue the theme and look at the qualities of ten more Biblical pioneers.
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One Big Win
Sometimes, all it takes for a struggling church plant to become a thriving, growing church plant is a little bit of momentum.
And sometimes all it takes to gain that momentum is one big win.
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The Dandelion Church
This is the first of a few posts in which I want to highlight some of the models of church planting found in the book of Acts – particularly those models that diverge from what is often seen today.
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Ka-Boom
There a moments when church planting isn’t an option, a strategy or a vision. It’s a necessity. There are moments when God is doing something and you have no choice but to roll with it and let it play out. They are good moments.
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Here Comes the Fear
Honestly, I could never understand church leaders and church planters who look super confident! You all know the type. They pray huge prayers, they look slick and their church is growing. I am not sure I should own up to that but it never works like that for me.
For me, faith doesn’t exist alongside confidence. Faith walks hand in hand with fear.
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The Number One Question I Hate Being Asked
When people ask me what my job is, I am not sure what to tell them.
They are probably just making polite conversation and don’t really want me to explain to them that I actually have 4 jobs and then talk them through in detail what I do in each.
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4 Things to Cut From a Church Planter’s Budget
I recently read an article about funding a church plant that suggested a starting budget of £100,000.
I have nothing against well-funded church plants (and if any donors are reading, a cheque for £100,000 would be pretty sweet), but if we only plant churches when we have a spare £100k knocking around, then we are not going to get very much done at all.
The truth is, church planting is not as expensive as some people suggest. Here are a few things you can cut from your budget.
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Reject Me
In the first few years, the church planter is the face of the church. Our family was the first point of contact with CCM:City that most people had. So, meeting up with people who might join us would quickly become an assessment of me! To start with, I didn’t quite realise what was happening, but after a while, I twigged that most people weren’t interested in our theology, vision or the quality of our meetings. They were assessing whether, in their eyes, I was a credible church leader, and did they actually “like” me.
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Leadership Style of a Church Planter
The other day, someone asked me what my leadership style was. I drew a complete blank.
I do have a style. I am sure I do. I just cannot tell you what it is.
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12 Lessons From Chinese Church Planters
In his book, “Church Planting Movements”, David Garrison talks about the Yanyin Church Planting Movement, working in a region of China. Over a ten year period, this movement grew from 3 churches to more than 900, totalling almost 100,000 believers.
Garrison shares twelve important lessons learned by the leaders of that movement.
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I Hate August
CCM:City is a Manchester church, and it exists right in the heart of Manchester's student population. This means that sometime in mid-September, tens of thousands of freshers pour into the city. They are noisy, messy, obnoxious and I love them. The constant injection of fresh blood into a city keeps it from going stale. New people mean new ideas, new creativity and new opportunities.
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Jack of All Trades
The more skills you have, the more skills you can use to grow your church plant and build God’s kingdom.
What skills do you have?
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The Five ‘W’s of Church Planting
Planting new churches brings the presence of the Gospel into new communities.
We want to see people reached from all nations, tribes and sub-cultures. It is not enough to wait for this to happen before we think about establishing churches to gather the people into.
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Authority & Oversight
Pioneers need to be those who are submitted to apostolic authority, and in turn can receive authority and anointing to plant churches. Some people are scared of giving someone authority to speak into their lives.
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Three Plans Every Church Planter Needs
Plan A, Plan B & Plan Z.
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Church Planting Affects Your Kids
To start with, the kids work at CCM:City was just my kids. So, me and the girls had to discuss church planting strategy! Trying to explain the importance of early adopter to a 5 and 3 year old is harder than it sounds!
We prayed together that families would join, and that children become Christians. Honestly, this is a new one on me. I felt a certain amount of pressure because I wanted my kids to be an important part of church life (as all kids should be), and at that moment we were the only parents with young kids!
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Qualities of a Church Planter: Devotion
Not many people want to be in second place.
A good church planter does.
It’s called devotion.
It means Jesus is first and we are second.
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Qualities of a Church Planter: A Thick Skin
Discouragement is part of the gig, and if you take it to heart it will kill you.
To survive and to thrive as a church planter, you need skin as thick as a warthog.
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11 Advantages of Multiplying Churches
There are lots of advantages to multiplying churches rather than simply trying to grow one big church. Here we look at 11 of them.
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Church Planting Tests Your Marriage
So it turns out that moving city, church, and job with an 8 week old baby, a two year old toddler and a husband who's very focussed on a church plant may not be quite as simple as I thought. It's also worth noting that after 18 months in Manchester, we bought a house that required a lot of DIY (DIY for me involves shouting swear words at wall paper as it peels back off the wall). I was out most evenings, and when I was home I wasn't exactly present.
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Community on the Move
Jesus lived out his ministry in community.
Jesus sends us to pioneer and plant churches in community too.
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Just In Time Learning
You can try to learn everything you need up front. You can set aside years to study and learn, and develop a bank of knowledge that can equip you for whatever eventuality arises. You can try to learn everything just in case.
Or you can learn as you go.
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Qualities of a Church Planter: Faith
There are some things that are essential for a church planter.
Top of the list is faith.
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Don’t Skip Leg Day
Leg days are hard work. It is unglamorous and takes a long time to see the impact.
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This Time It’s Personal
I once heard a church planter say that he never worried about his church and always slept well because God is sovereign. I cannot identify with that at any level at all.
If you want to plant churches, you need to know that it kinda hurts. At times, church planting is thrilling. At other times, it's utterly mundane, and most of the time it's neither. But it's always deeply personal!
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When You’re Church Planting on Hard Soil
So, we are meant to sow seed and expect that some of it will land on good soil and produce a harvest, right?
We are meant to plant and water and then wait for God to give growth, right?
Only what if he doesn't?
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The Parable of the Three Farmers
There were 3 farmers.
The first prayed that he would get a good harvest.
The second scattered tons of seed...
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The Best Time to Plant a New Church
The best time to plant a new church or start a new site is yesterday.
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7 Great Free Apps For Church Planters
Church planting is one of the most demanding tasks we can undertake. It involves playing the role of an all-rounder and juggling many different tasks. We have found the following apps invaluable in helping us get things done.
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Hustle
Some people spend their lives waiting for their dreams to be handed to them.
Other people hustle.
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Get Skills
The more skills you have, the more options are open to you.
This is never truer than for church leaders.
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It’s Not a One Man Gig
Nehemiah didn’t rebuild the walls of Jerusalem (at least not most of them).
Joshua didn’t conquer the land (at least not most of it).
Paul didn’t evangelise mainland Europe (at least not most of it).
You get the idea.
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Pragmatism Is Not a Dirty Word
At Broadcast, we are pragmatists.
This is nothing to apologise for. To be effective in church planting, pragmatism is a must.
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Web Strategy For Church Planting – Go Local
You have decided to plant a church. Maybe you have moved to a new place or perhaps you decided to stayed put. Either way you want to put your church plant on the Internet. Excellent move.
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Embarrassed by Vision
Vision is a fascinating issue in church planting.
I have met people who think vision is ridiculous because the mission we have is laid out fairly clearly in the Bible. It's a hard argument to disagree with. Jesus was fairly clear with what he wanted his people to do (disciples, nations, etc.). It's a compelling call to action that, 2000 years later, is still astounding in its simplicity and magnificently difficult in application.
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7 Tips For Brand New Church Planters
You're nobody (isn't this encouraging!?)
When you start planting, you are a nobody. You're unknown and you're unproven. Nobody wants to join your church except for people who love startups. Don't expect people to rally to your ministry because you don't have one! I remember sitting in a gathering of church leaders and feeling like a total fraud. I decided that being a nobody meant I had nothing to lose! When you have nothing to lose, it's easier to give it everything you've got!
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An Apology From a Mouthy Church Planter
If I could start this journey all over again, there are a few things I would do differently. I would definitely pray more and I would worry less, but there's one thing that really bothers me. I talked too much.
Specifically, I talked too much about vision and what Manchester needed.
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Inside the Twisted Mind of a Church Planter
Being able to keep a Godward perspective is perhaps the hardest but most valuable lesson I've had to learn. When times are good, bad or largely indifferent I do my best to not get too carried away.
