Planting Partners

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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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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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) Only one [...]

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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 – [...]

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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: [...]

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An inspiring short clip featuring Tim Keller’s thoughts on church planting.  Check it out!

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This is worth a listen.

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