Church Planting Patterns: Its All About Relationships
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 who had a launch team 40 and under had an average opening Sunday attendance of 142.
During seminary, Dr. Tom Jones, beat into our head his mantra, “Its All About Relationships.” All the fancy church planting strategies, the launch plans, the vision is all meaningless without relationships. This is a pattern that plays itself out over and over. As a project manager, the church planters who love people are the hardest to work with. They rarely get things done on time. They don’t pay much attention to timelines and plans. But I love to work with them. Why? Because its all about relationships and I know that they will reach more people with the Gospel of Jesus. The guys that love working the plan and spending their days behind the computer strategizing are the ones I worry about.
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Doug Foltz 