Comments for New Church Planting.com http://newchurchplanting.com planting healthy churches Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:08:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on down times by tim wolfe http://newchurchplanting.com/down-times/#comment-132 tim wolfe Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:11:28 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/down-times/#comment-132 jim, good stuff. in you comings and goings around the atl let's grab some water/coffee. thanks for all you do in the kingdom through church planting. tim jim,

good stuff. in you comings and goings around the atl let’s grab some water/coffee.

thanks for all you do in the kingdom through church planting.

tim

]]> Comment on Thinking by Bruce http://newchurchplanting.com/thinking/#comment-111 Bruce Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:38:30 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/thinking/#comment-111 1. Yes it needs to be written. 2. With a good title most pastors would read it.( Lets catch the wave while the surf is up.) 3. You would not be wasting your time. If one person would get saved from a church plant as a result of the book all of heaven would still rejoice. A couple of thoughts. Why not appeal to the one body many parts idea? Not every church is going to plant a church for any number of reasons. They perhaps might play a different role in Kingdom building, i.e. provide an internship at their facility in a particular area, (worship leader, coaching in preparation and preaching, small group training, administration, etc. etc.), or how about house a guy for two years as he plants a church in the same city, or maybe perhaps fund a church planter during their training at a church planting school and internship, (hmmmmm like perhaps a Net 35 guy). I think the big idea of Kingdom work needs to be put before them and let God do the rest. When it comes to what are we doing for the kingdom isn't it really a matter of obedience? Most churches can be involved in church planting without actually doing the plant themselves. If they get the Kingdom idea into their belief system, I can't imagine them not wanting to do the planting themselves. I think it will be either plant in one form or another, or get ready to wrestle with God. I say go for it Jim. I will be working on a title. That way you will know which one not to use. 1. Yes it needs to be written.
2. With a good title most pastors would read it.( Lets catch the wave while the surf is up.)
3. You would not be wasting your time. If one person would get saved from a church plant as a result of the book all of heaven would still rejoice.

A couple of thoughts.

Why not appeal to the one body many parts idea? Not every church is going to plant a church for any number of reasons. They perhaps might play a different role in Kingdom building, i.e. provide an internship at their facility in a particular area, (worship leader, coaching in preparation and preaching, small group training, administration, etc. etc.), or how about house a guy for two years as he plants a church in the same city, or maybe perhaps fund a church planter during their training at a church planting school and internship, (hmmmmm like perhaps a Net 35 guy).

I think the big idea of Kingdom work needs to be put before them and let God do the rest. When it comes to what are we doing for the kingdom isn’t it really a matter of obedience? Most churches can be involved in church planting without actually doing the plant themselves. If they get the Kingdom idea into their belief system, I can’t imagine them not wanting to do the planting themselves. I think it will be either plant in one form or another, or get ready to wrestle with God.

I say go for it Jim. I will be working on a title. That way you will know which one not to use.

]]> Comment on Thinking by Matt Sweetman http://newchurchplanting.com/thinking/#comment-106 Matt Sweetman Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:30:58 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/thinking/#comment-106 Go for it but don't use the term "church planting" in the main title, maybe just the tag line, it's got to appeal to pastors where they are at. Here are some title ideas: 1. The Most Effective Church Growth Strategy 2. The Book For Wimpy Pastors To Avoid 3. Church Sex (The tag line could read "Why starting churches brings the most pleasure") Hope that helps! Go for it but don’t use the term “church planting” in the main title, maybe just the tag line, it’s got to appeal to pastors where they are at.

Here are some title ideas:
1. The Most Effective Church Growth Strategy
2. The Book For Wimpy Pastors To Avoid
3. Church Sex (The tag line could read “Why starting churches brings the most pleasure”)

Hope that helps!

]]> Comment on follow up by rick http://newchurchplanting.com/follow-up/#comment-101 rick Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:33:36 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/follow-up/#comment-101 go dawgs! oh, and great post...first things first... go dawgs!
oh, and great post…first things first…

]]> Comment on The Check is in the Mail by Ellis http://newchurchplanting.com/the-check-is-in-the-mail/#comment-100 Ellis Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:32:18 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/the-check-is-in-the-mail/#comment-100 Jim, I love the vision and how you are not satisfied with WRC accomplishments in this area. You are constantly attempting more and more. I pray for you and your efforts for Church Planting. Jim,
I love the vision and how you are not satisfied with WRC accomplishments in this area. You are constantly attempting more and more. I pray for you and your efforts for Church Planting.

]]> Comment on SPAM by michael http://newchurchplanting.com/spam/#comment-74 michael Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:29:53 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/spam/#comment-74 spam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam spam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam

]]> Comment on Toothache by Ryan Hale http://newchurchplanting.com/toothache/#comment-67 Ryan Hale Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:16:58 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/toothache/#comment-67 Jim: Sorry to hear about the toothache. Hope you get to feeling better. Jim: Sorry to hear about the toothache. Hope you get to feeling better.

]]> Comment on vacation by Daryl http://newchurchplanting.com/vacation/#comment-61 Daryl Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:03:19 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/vacation/#comment-61 Jim: This is the first time I looked at your blog. Great picture of you and Tanya (nice hair!). I'm praying for you. Finances for our churches can be a problem but it won't stand in the way of God's work. Daryl Jim:

This is the first time I looked at your blog. Great picture of you and Tanya (nice hair!). I’m praying for you. Finances for our churches can be a problem but it won’t stand in the way of God’s work.

Daryl

]]> Comment on about to lose some friends by the loose rev. http://newchurchplanting.com/about-to-lose-some-friends/#comment-46 the loose rev. Mon, 26 May 2008 01:17:58 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/about-to-lose-some-friends/#comment-46 nice! nice!

]]> Comment on the tithe by C Lane http://newchurchplanting.com/the-tithe/#comment-36 C Lane Thu, 22 May 2008 22:38:58 +0000 http://newchurchplanting.com/the-tithe/#comment-36 Funny how people do not want to tithe, yet want the church to do it all ... be contemporary, look nice, feed the poor, help needy pay bills ... do they ever wonder where the finances for "ALL" comes from. Sure God could just rain it down from the sky, or cause it to grow on trees, but that is not the method God has chosen. We, His children, are blessed to be a blessing ... goes all the way back to the Abrahamic covenant. If people could just grab hold of this, the church would be able to do so much that welfare programs would not need to exist. This is one area that God even allows us to test Him on ... now this is not a get rich scheme, one must give with the right heart. When you do ... wow! "Malachi 3:10 - Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." Interesting article on a church that has a "Money Back Guarantee" http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2007/004/7.14.html Funny how people do not want to tithe, yet want the church to do it all … be contemporary, look nice, feed the poor, help needy pay bills … do they ever wonder where the finances for “ALL” comes from. Sure God could just rain it down from the sky, or cause it to grow on trees, but that is not the method God has chosen. We, His children, are blessed to be a blessing … goes all the way back to the Abrahamic covenant. If people could just grab hold of this, the church would be able to do so much that welfare programs would not need to exist. This is one area that God even allows us to test Him on … now this is not a get rich scheme, one must give with the right heart. When you do … wow!

“Malachi 3:10 - Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.”

Interesting article on a church that has a “Money Back Guarantee”

http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2007/004/7.14.html

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