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230 New Church Plants

Posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2008 | No Comments »

I Love Being Part of a Team with Passion
Converge Worldwide is a great organization to launch new churches with. There is a high level of commitment to church planting and an experienced network of church planters to walk alongside you. From 2000-2005 ConvergeUSA (our church planting arm) had deployed over 230 church planters across the United States.
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Unsustainable Pace

Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I tell church planters all the time that they will likely run at an unsustainable pace. I hear all kinds of leaders within the church talk about things like margin, Sabbath, vacations, rest, retreats, eight-hour days, five-day weeks, date nights, family nights, and all kinds of ways to ensure you as a planter maintain health. [...]

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From the Heart of a Missional Seven Year Old

Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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Gary Rohrmayer’s Recent Post - 7 Surprises

Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »

1) Less than 20% of Americans regularly attend church - half of what the pollsters report. There are approximately 330,000 churches in America; out of those churches approximately 17.7% (52 million) of Americans attend church on an average Sunday. 2) American church attendance is steadily declining.

Evangelical 9.2%
Catholic 5.5%
Mainline 3.1%

3) [...]

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Session 3 w/ Rick Warren

Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »

Preaching with Purpose – Manifesto for Renewal
I. God’s Purpose for Man – Rom 8:29 (NIV)
God’s Purpose is to make me like Christ – Gen 1:26 (NIV), 2 Cor 3:18b (NLT), John 17:17 (NIV), James 1:24-25 (NIV)
When we get people to:
Convictions - Thinking like Jesus
Character - Feeling like Jesus
Conduct – Acting like Jesus
They are inevitably [...]

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Session 2 – Rick Warren

Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »

Relational Renew - Growing A Spiritually Mature Church
Eph 4:14 (PH), 1 Cor. 12:11 (NIV), James 3:17-18 (CEV), Romans 8:29 (nIV), 1 Peter 5:2 Amp), Pr. 27:23 (NIV), Matt 7:17-20 (NIV) , John 15:8 (NLT)
8 Laws of Spiritual Growth
1. Spiritual Growth is Incarnational
Gal 2:20 (NIV)
1 Cor 3:6 (NIV)
Phil. 2:12-13 (NIV)
Fact: Spiritual Growth is Both
2. Spiritual Growth is [...]

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Exponential Pre-Conference Intensive w/Batterson

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Exponential 08 on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Short Notes from a four our stint with Mark Batterson:
READ MARK BATTERSON”S NOTES HERE>>>

Everything says something about everything.

Don’t over promises and then under deliver – under promise and over deliver.
Bill Gates said, “We over estimate what we can do in two years and under estimate what we can do in ten years”.
If you pour your [...]

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