Start Something Worth Reproducing
“Jesus said, ‘What is the Kingdom of God like? How can I illustrate it? It is like a tiny mustard seed that a man planted in a garden’…” (Luke 13:18-19). A common sentiment echoed among missionaries...
View ArticleNuts and Bolts – How to Build a Church Budget
Projecting Strategically The problem with generic funding packages is that there seems to be few generic planters and even fewer generic contexts. What looks like a self-sustaining church of 250 strong...
View Article5 Principles to Becoming an Effective Multiplying Church
Dr. Dan Morgan is one of North America’s most experienced and insightful missiologists. He has been on the forefront of developing many new church planting methodologies that are now considered as...
View ArticleThe Kingdom-centric church plant
If the goal of a new church is to be relevant, edgy and grow quickly to a place of self-sufficiency, then a thoughtful discussion on ‘church’ is all that is required. But, if the goal of a new church...
View ArticleKingdom First: Redefining success
Church planters are a curiously goal-driven group. Give us a numerical goal worth pursuing and we will focus the entirety of our energy toward it considering no sacrifice too great. Goals give us a...
View ArticleKingdom First: Knowing My Context
Gaining an accurate understanding of context is critical to successfully plant a new church. Barry Whitworth, has led in establishing over thirty Multiplying Church Centers in Pennsylvania, and...
View ArticleKingdom First: Leading Myself
The most difficult person that you will ever have to lead is yourself. You are a package of impressive strengths mingled with great insecurities, wounds and inconsistencies all wrapped to project the...
View ArticleKingdom First: Leading My Family
The heresy of the evangelical order A divine order has become almost sacrosanct in evangelical subculture; placing a pseudo-theological ordering on our priorities. God First Family Second Career Third...
View ArticleKingdom First: Leading God’s People
The Apostle Paul, gave this charge to the Ephesian church leadership: “Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church...
View ArticleSend Network Values: Kingdom
Over the past four decades, one untested yet habitually echoed axiom has garnered an almost biblical standing in our evangelical easy-speak: healthy churches grow. The unspoken implication is that if a...
View ArticleWhat Discipleship Is
What discipleship is Christian discipleship is what happens when people live daily with Jesus. Jesus drew incredible, mammoth church-sized crowds during His earthly ministry. But many people had...
View ArticleWhat Discipleship Is Not
Discipleship is messy because our lives are messy. One size certainly doesn’t fit all. How can you tell if you are making disciples? Below are four poor examples of things we substitute for making...
View ArticleA Process for Making Disciples
Several questions occur when talking about making disciples such as: What is our part in making disciples? How intentional? Do we simply preach, organize small groups or classes and leave the results...
View ArticleA Process for Multiplying Disciples
We like to say to “make disciple-making disciples” to inspire a vision for multiplication. But in the Great Commission, Jesus indicated you are not making real disciples if they are not disciplemakers....
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