Book Overview: Ying and Grace Kai’s Training for Trainers: The Movement that Changed the World Wigtake Resources – February 23, 2018 – 199 pages If you are looking for inspiration and simple ideas to get your life and congregation more focused on evangelism, you should read Ying and Grace Kai’s Training for Trainers: The Movement […]
It’s a new day. New normals will emerge. Our churches are picking up new technologies and new innovations to help us continue to deliver the gospel. In this season of new, of change, of adaptation, there may also be some OLD innovations that we need to circle back to. As we reset our churches over […]
Multiplication Readiness is a great mark of maturity for any church (see my post Is My Church Multiplication Ready). The Covid-19 crisis WAS THE TEST! How did your church do? We now have some new gauges for multiplication readiness, along with some that have been talked about for years. Were you ready for Online Engagements? […]
There are at least five ways for people to be regular, sacrificial, and cheerful givers to your church, no matter what. Give at a Sunday Worship Gathering. Placing an offering in the plate, basket, bag, or box is the most traditional way believers have given for generations. Give Online. By connecting with a few outside […]
When wanting to impact a community for Christ through evangelism, scattering seeds should be one of your primary missions. On Church Planter reports we ask for the # of contacts made each month. No coincidence that often the church plant with the most salvations and baptisms is also the one with the most contacts made […]
The vast majority of churches start out with less than 50 people. Actually, 70% of our current plants in Louisiana started below 50. 38% (or 618) of all Southern Baptist Churches in Louisiana reported attendance below 50 in 2018. Having 50 people or less is not bad. In some communities, 50 is a big church. […]
Recent Question from an honest member of a local church. “What’s the thinking behind the Louisiana Baptist Convention planting all these new churches? Why not just send more people to great churches like mine?” Answer: There are Three Major Problems with this kind of thinking as I see it. The problem of the numbers. How many does […]
Louisiana has 304 Census Designated Areas, noted as cities, towns, and villages by the Census Bureau. A few years ago, out of curiosity, I did a little digging into how many of these might not have a Southern Baptist Church. I knew of a few, but didn’t expect that number to total almost 100! Now, […]
Recently I was with a group of church leaders and the issue of reaching the lost came up. One of the leaders asserted that it seems the churches are all going after the same people, while the truly lost in our communities have little outreach to them. He’s absolutely right. Many of our standard church […]
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