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A new way of training Church Planters
About a month ago I completed a 6 part series on re-imagining church planter training. This was a really well-trafficked series and I wanted to make it available in one place.
- Post 1: Current problems with church planter training
- Post 2: The missing ingredient in church planter training
- Post 3: A proposal for training
- Post 4: Three barriers to this kind of training
- Post 5: Three more barriers to this kind of training
- Post 6: Re-imagining bi-vocational church planting
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2012/01/23
[...] of this blog, you’ll know I’ve written a lot on re-imagining church planter training. If you haven’t had a chance to read this series, I’d take a few minutes to catch up by c… The conclusions form a lot of my thoughts in this [...]
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2012/11/19
[...] little over a year ago I wrote a fairly extensive blog series on church planting in the future. You can read those posts here. I mentioned in the closing post that a group of us would be wrestling through some of the [...]
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Hey DP,
Love these posts and know they have blessed my life! They have helped shape my thinking when it comes to church planting and how I will continue to train leaders in this process of following the spirit.
Question: “Have you ever thought about compiling them into a single/simple pdf?”
I have seen become a cool and helpful way to share awesome resources as this is. Just a fun thought, would love to hear more of your thoughts on Planting/What is “Church”/etc.
your brother,
Sean
Great idea, Sea. Will look into making that PDF.
Really enjoying reading through the series. FYI.. The link to Post 3 instead links to Post 4.
Thanks Brad! I’ve updated the link, so hopefully it goes to the right post now.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi! Thanks for putting all your blogs out there again in easily accessible format.
I noticed that several time you advocate for finding people in college who are working on a degree and convincing them to be bi-vocational church planters. Great idea. It is also possible to develop some planters from people who are already working (or semi-retired) and have some experience of being discipled in some pretty healthy quasi-missional congregations, too? I am recruiting lay people to become bi-vocational church planters, mostly by regional presentations at church events. The ones coming forward are committed disciples who are seriously “chaffing” in traditional churches, but feel compelled to be agents of change in their communities. Slow growth is OK because they won’t be going away.and they work “day jobs”…Right now, they are developing practical skills in planting through a series of 10 session that give experiential learning in talking to people in your community, practical theology, telling your story (with a toastmaster coach!) and critiques of their facilitating small groups, etc. This month they are given a $100 and a 2 month assignments to go “start something new with people you don’t know” as part of their discernment. We are in the midst of this “Kingdom Experiment” now, so I can tell you what the results are yet, but we’ve had some cool NU things started!
I’m interested in learning more about about the leadership training tools you and your respondants have described. thank you for sharing!
P.S. I am a former scientist, church worker, beginning planter, working at 1/4 consulting job to fund my planting efforts, while talking other lay people into doing this, too. I have a very supportive husband and family-I think the early church women were very effective house church planters/leaders, so hope we could learn from that model, too.