Church Planting Evolution and the Simple Answer of Discipleship.

by | Mar 1, 2013 | Church Planting

I recently came across an interesting blog post simply titled; Church Planting is Dead!  I don’t know Kevin or anything beyond his bio, but he’s got some good points in the discussion on the ever changing face of church planting and kingdom expansion. I’ve done some time in the trenches of church planting so naturally I believe this subject should be a huge priority. Even in the established ministry here at The Crossings I’ve begun to lay the initial ground work for sending out planters and daughter churches.  It’s a big deal.

In the post the Kevin notes various changes like the present phenomena of launching multiple campuses or sites by mega-churches opposed to planting autonomous churches. That subject is indeed another debate for another time.  Here however, Kevin focused on individual people rather than on methods. His point being, in one sense, that every Christ follower can be involved in church planting. I agree with that assessment and would take the thought one step further. The key to really ushering in church multiplication and kingdom expansion is just going back to serious discipleship and not more machinery. (more…)

An Investment Challenge for 2013.

by | Dec 29, 2012 | Church Planting, Just Life, Kingdom Living

Well we’ve come to the conclusion of another year.  I’ve thought about a number of ways to close things up for 2012.  I’ve pondered a few ways to kick off 2013, but nothing really resonated.  Then I came across this video link below. It has some huge application for my leadership friends and followers of Christ in general. There is also implication to the American society as a whole. The take away challenge I’d give from this clip toward the New Year is to intentionally invest in the lives of others. The particular challenge would be for older godly men to purposefully take 2013 as a year to build into the lives of two or three younger men with the hope that they would do the same in years to come. This is so fitting for the Church and the culture at large today.  The answers that our world is looking for are not found in government, but in Christ and the Kingdom mentality He called us to.  The answer is to actually do what Jesus said . . . “go and make disciples.” (more…)