We are created with the craving and need for community. From the beginning of time, God is about community. From creating community to redeeming community. Rather than church planters we should see ourselves as community builders. Maybe some of the questions we battle with aren’t really all that important. Contemporary vs. Traditional House Church vs. [...]
Archive for April 23rd, 2008
Exponential: Dave Ferguson – Plenary Session 4b, “Genuine Community”
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Exponential: Steve Andrews – Plenary Session 4, “Radical Disciple Making”
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Steve Andrews is the founding pastor of Kensington Community Church and director of Vision 20/20. What do we want to be giving our emerging leaders and church planters that have not been given in the past? Permission to say no. Saying no means you have a crystal clear vision of what you are called to [...]
Exponential: Greg Surratt – Breakout Session 5, “Developing a Farm System for Reproduction”
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Greg Surratt is the Lead Pastor of Seacost Church, a multi-site church in North & South Carolina and the founder of the Association of Related Churches (ARC). 2 Timothy 2:1-2, “You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things you have heard me say in the presence [...]
Exponential: Dave Ferguson & Alan Hirsch – Breakout Session 4, “Organizing for Reproduction”
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Dave Ferguson is the senior pastor of Community Christian Church & the president of the Exponential Conference. Alan Hirsch is the co-founder of Shapevine & wrote the book, The Forgotten Ways. DOWNLOAD HANDOUTS AT NEWTHING.ORG THREE SIGNIFICANT REPRODUCING ADVANCES – Dave Ferguson Church Planting Church Plants grow 23x faster 10x the number of conversions Multi-Site [...]
Exponential: Jon Ferguson & Dave Dummitt – Breakout Session 3, “Creating the Culture of a Reproducing Church”
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The wireless here has been hit or miss. I’ll keep posting as often as I have a signal. Jon Ferguson is the Director of the New Thing Network. Dave Dummitt is the Pastor of 2|42 Community Church in Brighton, MI. DOWNLOAD THE HANDOUT FOR THIS SESSION AT NEWTHING.ORG A Reproducing Church Begins with Day One [...]
Exponential: Alan Hirsch – Plenary Session 3, “Missional Movement”
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1. Recovery of the Centrality of Jesus in His Own Movement – Christology lies at the heart of the renewal of the church. – We must radicalize in order to missionalize – We must go back to our root. We must get back to Jesus. – Christology > Missiology > Ecclesiology [...]
Exponential: Randy Pope – Breakout Session 2, “Spiritual Disciplines of Reproducing Churches”
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I finally was able to get access to the wireless here, so I should be live blogging the rest of the day! Feel free to follow along and join in the experience! Randy Pope is the pastor of Perimeter Church in Atlanta, GA. We can reproduce churches without spiritual disciplines, but we reproduce who we [...]
Exponential: Bob Roberts – Breakout Session 1, “Visioning for an Apostolic Movement Glocally”
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Converts grow a church, disciples change the world. 5 Core Keys of Christianity that Have Impacted Other World Religions (Acts 17:1-6) 1. The Covenant When Abraham made a covenant with God, He was declared the Father of ‘All Nations’. The grid for God’s operation is not the church, but the society. If we’re going to [...]
Exponential: Andy Stanley – Plenary Session 2, “Apostolic Vision”
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Making Vision Stick * “Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by passion that this should be.” * Vision always begins as a burden. * 5 Things That Help Make Vision Stick 1. State It Simply § Memorable is portable. § If you’re going to have vision that sticks it has to [...]
Exponential: Ed Stetzer – Plenary Session 1
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Trends in Church Planting * Transition to the Local * Evangelistic Effectiveness o Are we being effective in reaching the lost? * Church Planting Systems o Assessment * Resources * Funding o Church planting emphasis is shifting from the initiative of a regional or national agency to the local church. o National Support § More [...]
