Posts Tagged ‘ Launch team ’

What Does it Cost to Be on the Launch Team

In the early days of Christianity, it was tough being a Christian.  It wasn’t a decision you made lightly.  It was a decision that could easily cost your life.  As a result, the early Christians developed catechisms.  This was essentially a personal test to see if you were worthy of being a Christian.  The early [ READ MORE ]

What Do I Do at Launch Team Meetings?

Pt. 1 Building a Launch Team is Priority One Pt. 2 How Big Should the Launch Team Be? Pt. 3 Who Should Be Excluded from the Church? Pt. 4 Should I use a launch team covenant? Pt. 5 How Do I Build Momentum with the Launch Team? Launch team meetings are DNA setting experiences.  What [ READ MORE ]

How Do I Build Momentum with the Launch Team

Pt. 1 Building a Launch Team is Priority One Pt. 2 How Big Should the Launch Team Be? Pt. 3 Who Should Be Excluded from the Church? Pt. 4 Should I use a launch team covenant? I worked with a planter once who had 40 adults on his launch team from day one.  Three months [ READ MORE ]

Should I Use a Launch Team Covenant?

Pt. 1 Building a Launch Team is Priority One. Pt. 2  How Big Should the Launch Team Be? Pt. 3 Who Should Be Excluded from the Church? Launch Team Covenants (as well as membership covenants) are about one thing: Expectations.  In part 3, I talked about filters for deciding who should be on the launch [ READ MORE ]

Who Should Be Excluded from the Church

Building a Launch Team is Priority One How Big Should the Launch Team Be In this post, we take a look at who should be included and excluded from the launch team.  Some of you may be saying, wait did you say exclude?  I thought we wanted big launch teams.  The answer is yes, you [ READ MORE ]

How Big Should the Launch Team Be?

Part 1: Building a Launch Team is Priority One. To answer this question about launch teams you have to begin with the end in mind.  One exercise I work through with each church planter is to explore what their expectations are for opening Sunday.  First, estimate how many people will be in attendance on opening [ READ MORE ]

Building a Launch Team is Priority One

There are hundreds of tasks to complete when planting a church.  Recently a planter told me, “I got so much done today, but then I looked at how much I had left and felt like I was eating the proverbial elephant.”  Toward the end of the conversation I asked how many people were on his [ READ MORE ]

Bug 09 Shaun King – 10 Thoughts about Building Community Online

All of the rules of building a community off-line still apply! (Be consistent, be transparent, be honest, be a good listener, be responsive, be outgoing, etc.)[ READ MORE ]

Church Planting Survey Results

I had a request from @MarcWright to share more about the survey I did with Passion 4 Planting last year.  I mentioned it in a previous post: Church Planting Patterns Its All About Relationships.  The study surveyed 88 churches between years 2 – 5 of the life of the new church. Here’s what we found: [ READ MORE ]

Church Planting Patterns: Its All About Relationships

Part 1: God Plans Ahead Part 2: Satan is Pissed Last year I conducted a survey of 88 church plants.  I asked lots of questions but here is the one thing that stood out.  Churches that had a launch team of 41 or more people had an average opening Sunday attendance of 340 people. Churches [ READ MORE ]

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