The Church Plantology Podcast
The Church Plantology Podcast highlights church planters from around the world that are living out first century principles for successful church planting. When you see something in Scripture, throughout church history, and in best global missionary practices today, we call it a Church Plantology Principle – that means you can use them to plant anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Listen in as these principles come to life through the stories of faithful global missionaries.
Episode 1: Rediscovering 1st Century Ministry: From Church Starting to Church Planting
When we think about church planting, what often comes to mind is really starting a worship service. Yet in the first century, the Apostle Paul didn't walk around advertising worship services; he sowed the seeds of the gospel, watered through discipleship, and reaped a church plant as a harvest. It might be hard to imagine church planting in a world without big budgets, flashy websites, and ninja-like marketing tactics, but rest assured, it's done all over the world. Listen to the common thread in this introductory episode.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: White Mudenda (Zimbabwe), Steve Addison (Australia), Bonginkosi Dlulisa (South Africa), Ramón Gutierrez (Nicaragua), Felix Ndukong (Cameroon), Pastor "Sunil" (Northern India), Nathan Rostampour (Iran/USA), Abraham Parmet (Kenya).
Episode 2 – Rediscovering Apostolic Ministry: From Moses' Model to Missionary Multiplication
We often define success in leadership by power and fame. The more people see a leader and the more people that answer to a leader means that leader has made it. But the overwhelming burden of concentrated power was not the way God designed us to live and lead. Instead, we ought to be focused on raising up and sending out more leaders to carry the mission forward. We've talked to church planters all over the world, and although you haven't heard of all their names, it will be hard to discount their Kingdom impact.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: Patrick Selowa (South Africa), Pastor "Sarat" (East India), Nathan Rostampour (Iran/USA), Steve Addison (Australia), Rob Wegner (USA), Bruno Da Luz (Brazil).
Episode 3 – Rediscovering Team Leadership: From Top-Down Leadership to Embodying Christ on Mission
Ministry is a team sport. If you make all the decisions yourself, carry the weight of responsibility yourself, and look only to yourself for wisdom, then you're going to get burned out. Ministry work, especially church planting, should be done in teams. Jesus trained teams, Paul trained teams, and we should too.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: Pastor "Ram" (Western India), Larry Osborne (USA), Noel Mwenga (Zimbabwe), Steve Addison (Australia), Abraham Parmet (Kenya), Felix Ndukong (Cameroon).
Episode 4 – Rediscovering Apostolic Strike Teams: From Solo Performer to Catalyzing Teams
When the Apostle Paul planted churches throughout the Mediterranean, he didn't directly plant all of the churches by himself. Instead, he raised up strike teams that go split up and reform as the mission dictated. These teams spread out and planted churches in more places than Paul himself could have ministered. Listen to how this has played out through church history and across the globe.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: Onismo Goronga (Zimbabwe), Steve Addison (Australia), Abraham Parmet (Kenya), White Mudenda (Zimbabwe), Juan Ramón Suárez Martínez (Nicaragua), Felix Ndukong (Cameroon), Ed Kang (USA).
Episode 5 – Rediscovering God's Heart for Mission: From Borrowed Models to Broken-Hearted Compulsion
Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes though, we see the fruit of others' ministry and copy what they're doing, hoping to see the same results. But when you want to reach and serve your community, you have to enter its rhythms and listen to what the people need. Only then will a church plant flourish.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: Dhati Lewis (USA), Angel and Yajaira Ruiz (USA), White Mudenda (Zimbabwe), Bonginkosi Dlulisa (South Africa), Felix Ndukong (Cameroon), Ramón Gutierrez (Nicaragua), Simon Banda (Zambia), Pastor "Ravi" (Southern India), Abraham Parmet (Kenya), Steve Addison (Australia), Linda Bergquist (USA), Dany Saab (Middle East).
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Episode 6 – Rediscovering First-Century Participation: From Solo Performers to Team Mobilizers
Church was never meant to be a spectator sport. Unfortunately, when we plant churches, we often turn Christians into cheerleaders whose only role is to clap or say "amen" during services. Our true purpose though is to make disciples who are mobilized on mission. In Jesus' church, everyone gets to play and everyone has an important role.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: Ambitious Mulenga (Zambia), Felix Ndukong (Cameroon), Steve Addison (Australia), Jessie Cruickshank (USA), Pastor "Arnav" (Southern India), Abraham Parmet (Kenya), Dany Saab (Middle East).
Episode 7 – Rediscovering the Spirit's Empowering: From Fake Bravado to Spiritual Power
Rather than relying on the power of the Holy Spirit, most church planters today rely on their own plans and fundraising abilities. We don't step out in faith much. Instead, we trust in our own understanding. So what does seeking spiritual power look like? Listen to how the Holy Spirit empowers the work of church planting all around the world in this episode.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: Steve Addison (Australia), White Mudenda (Zimbabwe), Bruno Da Luz (Brazil), Pastor "Santosh" (Eastern India), Ambitious Mulenga (Zambia), Alex Absalom (UK/USA).
Episode 8 – Rediscovering Church as Mission: From Scattering on Mission to Gathering on Mission
Mission isn't just something that happens "out there," it happens within the four walls of the church as well. When believers gather together, they should interact in a way that makes gathering times just as missional as the community work that they engage in at other times. Listen to how church planters across the world have rediscovered how to gather on mission.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: Pastor "David" (Bangladesh), Bonginkosi Dlulisa (South Africa), Onismo Goronga (Zimbabwe), Steve Addison (Australia).
Episode 9 – Rediscovering Reproducible Sustainability: From Fully Funded to Apostolically Agile
Church planting is expensive in the West. There's a greater need to plant churches than funds available to pay church planter salaries. Yet that's nothing new. The Apostle Paul wasn't rolling in cash either. That's why he, and many of his team members, utilized more agile funding models for their ministry work. The same is true for many successful church planters today.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: Bonginkosi Dlulisa (South Africa), Dany Saab (Middle East), Brad Brisco (USA).
Episode 10 – Rediscovering Kingdom Collaboration Networks for Multiplication: From Building Upward to Spreading Outward
Planting a single church should never be a planter's goal. The Apostle Paul planted networks of churches and we should follow suit if we want to make a dent in the lostness of the world. Find out in this episode how church planters in many parts of the world are prioritizing the Kingdom over their own church.
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Church planters and ministry leaders featured on this episode: White Mudenda (Zimbabwe), Bishop Goronga (Zimbabwe), Dave Ferguson (USA), Pastor "Adil" (Southern India), Bruno Da Luz (Brazil), Steve Addison (Australia).
Podcast series personnel:
- Narration: Peyton Jones
- Producer: Brooks Hamon
- Writers: Peyton Jones and Brooks Hamon
- Research and Coordination: Rob Bullock, Ryan Castillero, Lee Carter, Thobi Qinisile, Santosh Chandran, Lilian Mutambi, Thony Ronaldo, Andrew Earnshaw, Lucas Sequira.
- Interviews and translation: Peyton Jones, Brooks Hamon, Ryan Castillero, Kellyn Amodeo, Bobby Thomas, Jennifer Mancharia, Heather Crane, Daniel Clavijo, Ninoska Alegria.
- Voiceovers: Michael Kar, Camilo S, Javo Arias, Harsh Patel, Shubh Gupta, Fahd Faheem, Austyn Goveas, Mitul Gohel, Abhinav Baner, Yuri Feltrin.