How do I develop and grow a team?

Top lessons learned / pitfalls to avoid?

What are the best practices in discipleship?

Becoming a reproducing church with limited funds?

I want to plant, how do I get started?

How to build a generous culture in our DNA?

How did JESUS start his community?

Becoming and excelling as church planting church?

How to get financially self-sufficient quickly?

How do we become a more prayerful church?

Best practices in leadership development?

What can I expect in bivocational planting?

How will planting effect my family?

How do we become more multi-ethnic?

How do I set boundaries to avoid burnout?

How do we leverage social media?

Improving alignment of vision, values & strategy?

How can our family find more joy in this journey?

Effective outreach strategies with limited funds?

Healthy risk taking versus irresponsibility?

Finding fellowship with like-minded leaders?

Trends / best practices in small groups?

What can I expect during planting?

With whom shall I affiliate or partner?

I'm considering multi-site. Is it the right path?

How do I make our vision more contagious?

How do I raise the funds?

How do I deal with all the disappointment?

What training / resources are available to help?

Will this ever get easier?

Who or what is the church?

All too often we begin with a set of assumptions about who or what the church is... unless we articulate a clear basic understanding of who the church is and what the church does, we build in a ticking bomb with the potential to bring division when our assumptions diverge. When it comes to being the church we can only engage in mission and ministry and grow to maturity when we're co-operating in unity in Christ... if we don't get that right at a fundamental level, then we create the opportunity for a whole raft of other issues - like vision, team, finances etc - that have been raised here to bring us down. Often we're disagreeing at a topical level, but the issue is not the topical one... it is simply a symptom, it is the fruit of a root lack of unity at a more fundamental level about who the church is and therefore what we expect the church will do.

Spend time on the front end defining who you are and who you aim to become as a church and embed that in the values and vision directing what you do... it'll save a lot of heartache and angst along the way!

When should I start another church?

When is it safe to transition out of a current church plant and start another one? How do I know if the community is self-sustainable?

Attracting contributors without serving consumers

How do we gather a sufficient critical mass of people without scratching the "what's in it for me" itch that usually gets a crowd to show up for church?

How do I maximize our staff hiring effectiveness?

How do I know this is God's calling to plant?

How do I spread the word with limited funds?

What unique challenges in urban setting?

What kind of budget will I need?

Allocating limited resources for growth?

Should I start a separate 501c3 impact ministry?

I'm tired and burned out. Help?

How can we avoid spectator sport mentality?

How do I find & develop new church planters?

I've lost half my core team. Now what?

How do I keep control of the vision?

Should I fire or let a person go?

What form of governance should I use?

What unique challenges in rural setting?

How do I discern the barriers to our growth?

How do we start an intern / residency program?

How can I have a higher conversion rate?

How do I deal with all the spiritual warefare?

Planting in the Postmodern AfricanAmerican Context

Where can I find sustainable resources?

Which model / approach is best for me?

Should I do direct mail?

Should I hire friends and family?

Discerning between quitting and continuing?

Do I have what it takes to start a church?

Should I start a missional community?

We're going multi-site. How?

We went multi-site? Should we keep it going?

What are my options for coaching / mentoring?

How to grow in space-constrained rented facility?

How do current trends in culture effect church?

Why a church?

Why build a church? Why not build a expanding community from your home? Keeps the $ in the community, saves overhead, keeps the leader grounded and ...

What are the top trends in church planting?

Where should I plant?

What to do when your church has cold feet?

What are you suppose to do when you know God is calling you to plant a church, but your home church is having cold feet on planting churches or is looking for every reason not to plant a church?

How do I recruit a plant team form my mother churc

How do I recruit a plant team from my mother church without offending those who want to go, but I do not feel comfortable with them?

How do I know the timing is right to plant?

What's right and needs optimizing in our approach?

What's confused &needs clarifying in our approach?

How can we fight against consumerism?

What's wrong and needs changing in our approach?

What's missing and needs adding in our approach?