There are multiple ways to plant a church. Church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee discuss various models of church planting and how church planters can create momentum in planning by using the right model.
There are multiple ways to plant a church. Church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee discuss various models of church planting and how church planters can create momentum in planning by using the right model.
1:14 - Danny discusses the pioneering method of church planting and planting in a community where you have no local contacts
2:54 - Danny talks about the advantages and disadvantages of the pioneering model of church planting
4:22 - Danny talks about how a pioneer church planter can find little wins to stay motivated, and what an honest timeline for a church to start in a pioneering church planting situation would be
6:13 - Danny talks about the ratio of believers to non-believers at his church plant, and what it meant to the church's ministry
7:25 - Danny discusses ways for a pioneer church planter to make connections in a community
8:09 - Lee talks about the branching church planting method, in which a core group of people are sent out from an existing church to plant another church
9:00 - Lee talks about how his team decided who would join his church planting team, and how not everyone is cut out to join a church planting team
12:28 - Lee offers advice to a church planter using the branching model on how to guard the culture you want to create, and what could happen if you don't do that
13:33 - Lee talks about the skills and gifts that a branching church planter needs
14:45 - Danny and Lee explain the adopting model of church planting, in which a pre-existing core group wants to plant a church and brings in a church planter from the outside as a leader, and the challenges of the method
16:52 - Lee discusses the advantages of the parenting model of church planting, in which a group of churches come together to plant a church
19:00 - Danny talks about a possible negative ramification of the parenting model, and how planting churches can avoid it
20:21 - Lee and Danny talk about the missional community start model, in which a church plant begins with small groups our house churches
23:20 - Lee speaks about how multiple models can be used to honor God, reach people for Jesus and disciple believers
24:08 - Lee and Danny share the skills and gifts that would be most needed for a missional community church planter
25:11 - Lee shares the desire of church planting in the Converge movement
26:00 - Danny and Lee talk about the importance of models in the planning stage and the need to be flexible during the church planting process