Planting and Growing New Churches: Three Articles

Church Planting, Thermometers, and Thermostats

Are you merely taking the temperature of the world around you, or are you actually doing something about it?

This week's guest post for Thursday is for Thinkers comes from Daniel Im.

Daniel is part of our team at LifeWay to help us launch our New Churches initiative—more on that later, but we are excited about the new plans we have to resource church plants and churches launching new sites.

A while back, Daniel contributed a post on Lesslie Newbigin and church planting, and you'll see Daniel posting more as I'd like to keep him around as a regular contributor on the blog. A few weeks ago, he wrote about how crowdfunding and Kickstarter may be noteworthy for church planters.

This week, he explains how our church needs to be more like a thermostat than a thermometer. Keep reading

The Third Wave of Church Planting: From Startup to Scale

In a recent Fast Company article, The Startup Revolution Is About To Surge Again, Coca-Cola VP of Innovation David Butler discussed his ideas about what is needed for the “next wave entrepreneurial growth.”

I see some parallels with church planting and church growth movements.

Butler talks about three waves, two of which have already occurred and one which is forming. Keep reading

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The Startup Revolution Is about to Surge

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