By Peyton Jones “You can’t fail if you never start” – every business/entrepreneurial guru out there   The failure that many would-be-witnesses fear hinder them from ever taking a step of faith. For all of our imbibing of entrepreneurial webinars, and motivational books, we still haven’t learned to the savvy wit and wisdom of the…

(NOTE: Watch a 4 minute video of Patrick) I moved from Ghana to the United States because of a command, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). Worldwide disciplemaking means that we must plant churches across…

Watch this 17 minute video with Dave Ferguson, President of Exponential and myself. In it we discuss some of the tensions accompany church planting. Church multiplication is important. We need to deal with the inevitable tensions it brings. You’ll gain insight into how we saw one congregation of 12 people turn into 2,300-plus churches through…

I’m currently in the middle of  a week spent teaching church multiplication to  a “family” of church planters called, “Nexus.” I met the leaders at a recent Exponential gathering where we decided to team up. I am impressed with their vision and values. They’ve planted nearly 50 healthy churches. They, on the other hand, are…

When I told my buddy about my church planting plans, he said, “You’ll never let go of the ring, Frodo, they never do.” My friend Ken Hiroshige was also my dentist. He drilled me with words while while working a long needle into my jaw. “They never let go when they get to your place.…

Guest Blogger: David Housholder, Robinwood Church, Huntington Beach, CA “Be Fruitful and Multiply.”  Not the greatest commandment, but certainly the first one. And repeated several times to make sure we got it. For most of us that means that we should plant churches. Most large churches have some form of multiplication which they are practicing…