Share *Disclaimer* – These are my brief thoughts. These are not intended to be the “final word” but rather the “beginning of a conversation” Church Planting is highly romanticized and is the “sexy” thing to do within the sub-culture of the American pastor. If you are truly revolutionary, edgy, a rebel, then you, my friend,...
Share I’ll be at the Exponential Conference in Orlando, Florida this week. I’ll be hanging with a few old seminary buddies and learning from some of the more prominent voices in American church planting. I’ve never heard some of these guys speak, so that’ll be good. I do wish I could hear more from the...
Share A note from Joe: I first met Billy Mitchell a couple weeks before Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans when he was leading a group of NOBTS students to survey the French Quarter for a church restart. I didn’t meet him again until this past January in New Orleans at a Reproducing Churches Network gathering....
Share Today Justin Woulard and I went to Pensacola to meet with a couple church planters in the Reproducing Churches Network. In late January I drove over to New Orleans to a gathering of the RCN guys, including Jason Dukes and Billy Mitchell. That same day they were in New Orleans, Jason and Billy also...
Share Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, tweeted that tonight. We’ve all heard the same basic idea: our churches should be as mighty as the oak tree: large, majestic, long-living, life-giving. On the surface this is a wonderful analogy for the church. But it’s not the best analogy, and I dare say that Warren’s choice...
