Building Vs Growing A Church
Why do pastors so often treat congregations with the impatience and violence of developers building a shopping mall instead of the patient devotion of a farmer cultivating a field? The shopping mall will be abandoned in…
Category: Church Planting
Churches Should Run Themselves
As theStory transitions away from having anyone at the reigns it allows us to practice and experiment with different ways of allowing the church to take on a life of its own. I’ve only ever…
Pastors, Salaries, Leaders and Budgets
This is part of a series entitled Confessions of a Church Planter, all the posts from this series are listed below. I wrote a post two years ago entitled Thoughts on Paying Pastors. I just re-read it…
Planting a Church And…
This is my first post in my Confessions of a Church Planter series. When Darryl and I first were throwing around the idea of starting a church we went to a conference in Toronto called…
Confessions of a Church Planter:An Introduction
I’ve been around the church planting scene now for five years and I’ve been noticing trends amongst church planters, habits in myself and reactions by regular church folks that I think I can offer some…