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Comment on Taking the Guesswork out of Church Planting by Ingrid

Ingrid — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:37:02 +0000

I have been to lhiucferch.tv ‘s main campus in oklahoma city. It truly was a fun experience, especially after been attending to one of their internet campus in Tulsa.As you may know, there is a great debate going on with the internet church, after the book ‘SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World’.

Comment on Choosing a Name by mattvancleave

mattvancleave — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:23:43 +0000

Did a google search and landed here. It was only after reading Loungedivine that I realized who wrote the article. Small world

Comment on 10 Step Assimilation Process by pst charles collins

pst charles collins — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:05:50 +0000

i love your srategy God bless you.

Comment on Converge Church Planting by Boog

Boog — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:05:17 +0000

What a joy to find sonmeoe else who thinks this way.

Comment on Exponential Conference by Lance Ford | FordPhotosBlog.com

Lance Ford | FordPhotosBlog.com — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:30:58 +0000

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Comment on Why Plant a Church? by chosenrebel

chosenrebel — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:51:31 +0000

Amen. Church planting doesn’t have to cost so much. It is all about priorities and methodology. Choose the right priority (Plant churches) and find a way to do it.

Our first six plants got no denominational, district support. But all of them are thriving churches, growing by conversion and making a difference in their communities.

Comment on About by Vince

Vince — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:15:19 +0000

Hey guys, I admire your group. I wish we can also have this kind of group online here. Unfortunately, only a few Filipino church planter pastors are well acquainted over the net.

Continue to reproduce guys!!! Blessings!

Comment on Why Plant a Church? by Vince

Vince — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:09:05 +0000

Church planting should not be that expensive. Right now, I engage myself in what we call in the Philippines, “Bayanihan Church Planting” (Corporate Church Planting). I will doing some more post about it later. But certainly it is establishing a church planting team who is also engage in church planting network.
Here’s the link: http://thedisciplers.com/10-reasons-why-we-need-to-have-church-planting-coaching/

Try to follow my church planting post to give you some additional ideas on what we’ve been doing here in the Philippines.

Furthermore, I would quite disagree with some points under “Why Support Church Planting?”
1. I think the amount is “over” exaggerated. What if there’s no funding anymore? Would we stop planting a church? There is a “cheaper” way to plant a church.

Some church planting efforts here only amounted to a couple hundred dollars for the whole year.

Please note that I am not saying that having a good financial support is not needed. It is needed. But I don’t agree that it should be a basis to whether or not we can plant a church. If there is funding the better, but even if the fund is way too low, then we should continue. Getting out there in season or out of season.

2. I believe that once you teach the newly planted church to give tithes, offering, or generous giving (whatever you may call it), they will be independent financially only a few months after its inception. Why? Because since the start of the church, you are already teaching them what it means to give to the church.

3. Is there any other way to be church-led but not church-supported? I think we need to encourage people to work on church planting. Recruiting committed people for this is actually producing future supporters too. Why? Because they themselves understand what it means to plant.

In conclusion:
Well funded church planting is not bad, in fact it is good. But let us be reminded that funding should not be the basis of church planting efforts. It’s not the first question.

Commitment to church planting by ordinary members is one of the most essential factors in church planting. I think, that is where we need to focus on.

Blessings!

Comment on Choosing a Name by Rev Tony Wan

Rev Tony Wan — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:00:18 +0000

Hi, I think names should represent the calling of God on peoples lives just like Moses would probably call his work, “OUT OF EGYPT MINISTRY”

Anyone with a burden of changing lives for Christ in East African City Sub-burbs? Get in touch to support.

Comment on Why Young Adults Leave Church by Vince

Vince — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:47:10 +0000

With so many competitors of the church nowadays, young people won’t really love to go to church. For them playing video games and doing gimmicks are more fun.

This is a matter of cultural evolution where people’s mindset becomes different. And this is a huge challenge to our churches.

How in the world can we ever invite them to come back?

Some churches already applied unbiblical ways where another problem emerged.