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There are no ready-made leaders. Most young churches lack enough leaders to expand the ministry. Rather than praying for God to send us leaders, God wants us to develop them from the harvest for the harvest! This session gives seven steps for developing a leadership culture within a congregation, young or old. It then warns of four crucial areas to carefully monitor for improving your leadership pipeline. -
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Research reveals that churches quickly experience “evangelistic entropy” and fall into a maintenance mode of ministry. This session shows how to raise the evangelistic temperature of your church while designing healthy evangelistic systems and strategies. Pastors must model evangelism, equip/train their people to live “sent” lives and plan effective evangelistic events that are “invite-worthy.” -
Building A Ministry Plan
$9.00Failing to plan is planning to fail. Wise church planters develop a strategy complete with milestones and critical mass markers that clarify where they are going and how they plan to get there. This breaks the process down into manageable steps. -
Teams are the preferred approach to ministry in the Bible. Every person has a ministry S.H.A.P.E. that suits him or her for particular areas of ministry. People serve best when given a ministry slot that corresponds to their shape -
Looks at how we can effectively follow up those who visit our services and the importance of being intentional in developing an effective discipleship program. -
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Ethnic Church Planting
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Why Plant Churches
$9.00Builds on the Biblical Foundation of the previous class. Discusses 15 demographic, spiritual and practical reasons why we should be planting more churches. -
People value that which is costly. People do not value church membership because it costs them nothing. Raise the membership bar, require pre-membership classes, and clearly outline what is expected of those who join the church. -
Recruiting A Launch Team
$9.00Emphasizes the importance of team church planting, what to look for in team members and guidelines to making it work. -
Churches must chose to be either a missions supporting church or a sending church. This session focuses on the 12 marks of a missions active sending church, giving lots of recommended resources for leaders to implement that vision. Topics explored include developing a missions strategy, writing a church missions policy, recruiting a missions team to give leadership, planning exciting mission conferences, caring for missionaries, and training missionary candidates in-house. -
Preparing for Launch Day
$9.00Going public is a big deal! Doing it right is critical to attracting people and getting them to come back. This lesson walks you through the multitude of things to be done leading up to your Big Day. -
The Man God Uses
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Stewardship is about life management rather than money. All we have (time, talents, treasure) come from God and belong to God. We are only temporary stewards of God’s resources. That mindset creates generous Christians. -
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Emphasizes the critical role of vision and values in church planting and walks the student through the process of developing both -
One of the marks of a growing church is inspiring worship. This session shows how church leaders can design Christ-exalting yet guest-welcoming celebrative corporate worship. Recommendations for improving public worship are given so that God’s people truly encounter the living God. Timeless principles for God-honoring worship are explored. -
Covers the importance of intercessory prayer in church planting as well as how to recruit and communicate with your prayer teams so as to keep them involved. -
America has over 220 million lost and unchurched people. The best way to reach them is through church planting and intentional parenting of daughter churches is one of the best ways to do church planting effectively. God’s purpose is that every healthy congregation reproduce itself. After laying out the biblical foundation for corporate reproduction, this session gives 14 steps practical churches should take on the journey to birthing a daughter church. -
Maintaining momentum following launch is the result of good planning. This lesson covers the next six months after launch including some of dangers to be faced, the need to streamline your leadership style, solidify your gains and the need to focus on reproduction. -
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Organizing The Church
$9.00All living things have structure. The church’s structure is found in it’s four foundational documents (charter, covenant, constitution, creed). Other legal documents are identified that enable the church to do things decently and in order. -
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Only God can make a church grow. But we can create conditions favorable for growth through clarifying the essentials, giving away ministry to others, utilizing small groups, focusing outward on your community and teaching people how to tell their story. -
After defining what leadership is and clarifying why strong servant leadership is vital to the church, this session focuses on eight qualities of what a missional leader looks like. Topics covered include being a passionate follower of Christ, serving out of your giftedness, having a heart for the lost, empowering others, building healthy relationships, and designing/developing healthy church systems. Seven vital church systems are described. -
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Discusses the critical importance of handling God-given resources properly while focusing on the personnel, policies and procedures for developing the 11 financial systems of the church. -
The church landscape is littered with men who have destroyed their ministry through moral failure, laziness, greed or pride. There are seven steps that every leader needs to take to keep from becoming a ministry casualty -
Values are those core beliefs that distinguish a church and anchor it in the Word God. Vision is a clear and challenging picture of the future as you believe it can and must be. Together values and vision drive the ministry of the church forward.
