Tag: Ed Stetzer

Church Planting Shifts, Part 4: Supporting Planters

"We currently don’t have the kind of financial-support model that our new cultural reality needs."

Breaking Church-Growth Barriers: Build a Bigger Leadership Table

Ed Stetzer: “Our goals must reflect a community of making disciples and exerting cultural influence.”

Church Planting Shifts, Part 3: Preparing Our People for Witness

"If we are to succeed in this new, more secular space, we need to do more than simply acknowledge this shift."

Church Planting Shifts, Part 2: From Nominal to Secular

"Our approach needs to change for there to be significant traction in planting movements within a largely secular society."

Church Planting Shifts, Part 1: The Launch

"Church planters tend to think that their individual and local church planting model is the norm globally. But that’s not the case."

3 Keys to Protecting Your Leadership Credibility

"A leader who has wasted his or her influence is a leader who is putting out fires instead of starting fires under people."

A Note to 20-Something Church Leaders

“Working in a church setting will always involve leading alongside others who are not like you.”

Church, It’s Time to Wake up to the Plight of the ‘Other’

"May we preach pro-life from conception to death: pro-people—pro-refugee, pro-homeless, pro-exile."