Cracking the Whip
Hi Everyone, Amazing news! My new ebook, Cracking the Whip, is out now! Thanks to our sponsor, exponential, you can download the book today for FREE! Just click right here to download your copy of the ebook. Keep reading below to view an excerpt from the book and to see what Todd Wilson with Exponential has…
Read More Church Multiplication: Gardening in the Ruins of Babel by David LeMonnier
Church multiplication is more like gardening than construction. “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.” The command is repeated twice in Genesis. In Genesis1:28 at the beginning of humanity God says this to Adam and Eve. He commands it again, in Genesis 9:1 when he reboots humanity with Noah’s family after the flood. God…
Read More Hero or Hero Maker–Which are You?
Church multiplication leadership requires hero making. If we don’t make heroes of others, we’re not partnering with Jesus in the prayer to send labor into the harvest. God supplies, we shape. I had a great recent conversation with one of my friends who is also one of my heroes. His massive accomplishments as a leader…
Read More Church Multiplication Skunkworks
I’m writing on a flight home from Exponential West—a conference for leaders targeting church multiplication. This piece is a response to a question I was repeatedly asked as I taught… “How can I plant churches if our church members resist it?” The answer is as simple as partitioning your hard drive. I first did it…
Read More The 4 Cs of Collaborative Church Planting by Nathan Hawkins
Collaboration is a buzz word. Cooperation is all the rage, especially among millennials. It’s most important in church planting. It can be fun, it is necessary to get certain things done, especially in church planting. Rarely is this exciting and complex method considered as a process or on a scale. Here are what I share…
Read More Fall In Church Planter!
Church Planter, I want to congratulate you for the journey that you’re about to go on. You’re about to enlist yourself as a soldier in God’s frontline kingdom advance. In WW2, Dwight Eisenhower, along with our European allies were faced with the daunting task of taking Europe back from the Nazis. The largest problem…
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