Church Planting
Exegetting the Culture
3 basic ways to get to know a place
1. Objectively
a. Set up Google alerts
b. Use Wikipedia
c. Walkscore.com
d. American Community survey
e. neighborhoodscout.com
f. brookings.edu
g. thearda.com
h. United Way poverty maps
-Start with hunches to help you learn the community so you know where to connect with people
-Helps you know what type of people are in the community you are at
2. Subjective(Qualitative Research)
a. Community walks to see what the people in the community see.
-What/How they see
- "Image of the City" Kevin Lynch-1960
o Public Art is about real community involvement and collaboration
o History matters in old cities
-How do residents feel about the change
-Where do people congregate to celebrate or protest
Paradigm Shifts
• Empathy through Strength
- Church planters are joining the work that God is already doing
Questions to ask:
o Who are the people that God has already been using in this area
(Historian, Archaeologiest, Excavator)
Knowing about people to Knowing people
• Demographics aren't always correct
- Let go of what you think you know so you get to actually know them.
o Stop counting likes and shares
-Count gospel conversations and meals with real people
1. What are the relationship cracks in my community?
-What is missing
- Fill in the needs people have
Incarnational Experimentation
o Develop habits and rhythms that will help cultivate an evangelistic and missional life style
*Ask: Is this worth doing?
Turn your home into a hub instead of a refuge
1. How can you leverage your home to be a place where ministry spills out of the home
2. Posture of engaging and not hiding
3. Home can be a space to embody the gospel
o Loving people is an investment not a slot machine
- Long term investment(it takes time to mature)
- When you feel like quitting stick with it because you're just at the point when things will really start to mature
stayforth.com
Breakout
o What breaks your heart?
-Engage with the lost in the places that you are burdened
-Make sure that your ministries aren't presented as projects
-Ask how can you serve and provide what people need
When things are hard
o Make sure you stay connected
a. To God
-Prayer
-His Word
b. To community
-Ministry support team
-Regular fellowship with other believers
c. To like minded friends
-people that can relate to your situation
-people that share the same call/vision
"Power through prayer"
o Sometimes "failed" outreaches are effective because it makes people aware that you are there and outward focused
Disciple-Making
1.Are those we are disci;ling making disciples
2. Have we defined what a disciple looks like?
3. How many disciple-makers do we have in our church?
4. Do we have an easily reproducible system for making disciples?
5. Are we equipping people to be disciple makers?
*Do the people in your church take responsibility for discipleship personally?
*Are you bottle necking discipleship?
- Is discipleship contained by a glass jar?
- Limited to book work or just stuff that you know in a formal meeting
*Read together, Pray together, Obey together
*How do you make discipleship the norm?
*It is better to get people involved in making disciples than waiting
- More learning and sanctification comes from leading than being discipled
Moving people into the process of discipleship
1. Guest Services Ministry
How do you pair people into discipling relationships?
a. Try three meetings to see if people click
Leadership Development
What do we look for?
How do we start to train leaders?
Leadership Development basics
o Organize around basic functioning needs
What kind of leaders do we want to train?
1. Local
a. People that have relationships with people in the community
b. People that are burdened for the people around them
c. People that understand the cultural context
-leads to a contextual gospel presentation
3. Spirit Empowered
a. Emboldened to make relationships
b. Humble and dependent on God
People to start with
a. People that give
b.
How do we begin?
1. Understand, articulate and share teh gospel
2. understand articulate and share our theological foundation
3. understand articulate and share our vision
4. understand nd particpate in needs in teams.
LD2
1. COmprehend and practice:
-Basic Spiritual disciplines
-Rhythms
- Comprehend and articulate and share the gospel
- Comprehend our definition of Discipleship
LD3
After Serving:
1. Lead a team(Functional or ministerial)
2. Partner with staff to develop healthy growth plans
3. Understand and commit ot making disciples
1. Multiply Gospel Comprehension
2. Multiply Theological Foundation
-Why are you doing what you are doing?
4. Multiply Contextual Vision
-not just a slogan
solidrock.us/gateway
To start:
Know what a disciple is
Be a disciple
• A loved child of God called by the Father to obey Him
Jesus only did 3 things on earth
1. Abiding relationship with the Father
-Prayer
-Obeys the Father's will
2. Spent time connecting with the family
-fellowship with other believers
3. Sharing the mission
*Don't waste relationships
-Don't underestimate the impact of relationships you might have
Landmines in Church Planting
1. Be certain of your calling
o know yourself
-Your call will free you and anchor you when things get tough
o Build your team around your weaknesses
-You need to have initiative and a self starter
3. Decide on YOUR vision
-Know what you need to do for your context
-BE YOURSELF
5. Learn the art of self-awareness
o Assess the situation around you
-Know what is going on in your team
- Take care of your family
- Take care of your health
- Move toward the funk
o If you sense something is wrong don't avoid it confront the problem
o Take regular rest/ Step back so you can gain perspective
7. Myth: I'll be effective if I'm just FAITHFUL
a. Faithful men and women that are willing to work hard AND smart
9. MULTIPLY your church
a. Don't start too early
Church Planting Landmines
1. Ignoring Personal Development
-when they stop learning they stop leading
-Boredom is the secret ailment of large scale organizations- John Gardner
-Fresh movement in your life means you are developing yourself
. Staleness comes from Isolationism
- Let other people pour into you
- Have a support team
People become stale in their marriage
- Take time to invest in your marriage/close relationships
- Don't neglect Friendship
2. Derail your vision
- "chatter" that obscures our situational awareness
- don't set aside your vision
3. Mind and Soul Rest
• Solitude, Silence
- Psalm 116:1-9
Practices to replenish yourself
1. Sleep
2. Read for pleasure
3. Get away with your family and don't do ministry
Redo lessons
1. Put people in leadership positions too soon
2. Trust in the power of God's Word
- make more of the expositional preaching of God's Word
3. Be a good steward of your time
- Put structure in your life
- Have places to do work
4. Cast vision
- You can never do it enough
- People need to be reminded and there are always new people that have never heard it
- Clarify and Defend vision
5. Ask more questions
- Be a life long learner
o Assimilation plan needs to be scalable
Having a Pastor is just as important as being a pastor
o You need someone to help shelter your heart
o Someone to ask:
-How is God speaking into your life?
-How does God want to work in your life
*A person that helps you pay attention to God
o Someone that will care and pray for you
How do you find a Pastor/Soul Shepherd?
1. Pray and ask God to reveal someone to you in your relational landscape
-Look and Listen
2. A person that listens and that wants to hear about your life
3. A person that is wise
4. Honors confidentiality
5. Integrity
6. Someone that is empathetic
-Soul Mentoring needs to be more important than numerical success
A. Being is just as important as doing
*As soon as we stop hearing the voice of the one who calls us "beloved" we will look for someone to call us beloved
*Remember that God loves you
-You are the beloved of God
-Jesus ministry began after God said that he was his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased
o Find someone that is safe and you can be authentic with
Spiritual health of the Planter/Family
1. Die to the idea of growing the Church and think of how you can grow the kingdom
2. Die to the idea of being a successful planter
God can do more in a moment than I can do in a life time
3. Prioritize intimacy with God in your life
-You are made to be in relationship with God, if you are too busy to spend time with God you are too busy
4. Take time off weekly
-Rest
5. Take time off quarterly
6. Abandon Annually
Everyone who has an affair in the ministry first had an affair with ministry
*God is not concerned with your spiritual life He's concerned with your life.
Stretch yourself
IF I get everything I ever dreamed for in ministry but it comes at the expense of my family I'll have nothing.
o Choose to cheat but don't cheat your family
Dangers
1. Corruption of Spiritual disciplines
-using them utilitarian
3. Overexposure to the church
4. Fatigue
5. Constant exposure to the worst parts of people's lives
Dennis Newkirk
Soul Care
405-202-2927
Resonate Church
509-432-5358
Urgent, Multiplying, Collegiate
Church Planting, Movement
o Innovation comes from Urgency
-High innovation, High risk
Multiplying
-Celebrate what is important
*disciples whose disciples make disciples
-Core success metrics revolve around discipleship
Collegiate= College students are the most reachable, trainable, and sendable demographic on earth. Play the long game.
-Sendability built into the natural rhythm of the church
o Next Generation of the work force and the church
Church Planting
o Apostolic impulse brings systemic health
Movment: Create systems that empower and release the body for maximum kingdom impact.
Value of community makes the metric of small groups important
-Can you communicate your evangelistic system without using words?
-Draw out behaviors
*moved from counting people that attend service , to small groups, to salvation
-focused on freshman
Rhythms of building and sending
o Build year
o Send year
-people in the new sites have a clearer vision of the original mission and values
Leading leaders doesn't mean that you will lead leaders well
o It's easier and better to start with raw material than to have to work with people that are coming from another culture
Mystery of Leadership
* Consistent processes you put in people's lives
* Catalytic moments
-Exponential growth starts slow
Maclake.com
Choose Multiplication Values
Choose Multiplication Metrics
Choose Multiplying Leaders
-Choose to create rivers not plates
o Rivers send
o Plates collect
Short game is counting collections of people
Long game is counting the number of sent people
Church planters are the chief missiologist of their town
-Site pastors contextualize the teaching every week
o Use every opportunity to provide a ministry/missions project during breaks
-3 day/extended weekends
-holidays/breaks
Colossians 1:9-14
Eastvale bible church
o Win the men to win the family
-Win the family you start to win the community
o Value Biblical Literacy so you can take ownership of your role in the church.
*The church will be known by it's love for one another
-something done not just something that is talked about
Matt Lawson
o What are you willing to risk to be more than normal?
o Exegeting the culture so you can speak clearly to the people in your community.
Think entreprenurially
Evaluate
Process
Plan
Consistently communicate vision
-You need to be able to hug people and can't just preach
-You can't please everyone and please God
Story City Church
-plant to fit the lead pastor's personality
-dictated church culture/ not collaborative
Small churches need to train up and send out leaders
-Head
-Heart
-Hands
Raise up preachers
-give preachers the opportunity to grow in faithful preaching of the word
3 basic ways to get to know a place
1. Objectively
a. Set up Google alerts
b. Use Wikipedia
c. Walkscore.com
d. American Community survey
e. neighborhoodscout.com
f. brookings.edu
g. thearda.com
h. United Way poverty maps
-Start with hunches to help you learn the community so you know where to connect with people
-Helps you know what type of people are in the community you are at
2. Subjective(Qualitative Research)
a. Community walks to see what the people in the community see.
-What/How they see
- "Image of the City" Kevin Lynch-1960
o Public Art is about real community involvement and collaboration
o History matters in old cities
-How do residents feel about the change
-Where do people congregate to celebrate or protest
Paradigm Shifts
• Empathy through Strength
- Church planters are joining the work that God is already doing
Questions to ask:
o Who are the people that God has already been using in this area
(Historian, Archaeologiest, Excavator)
Knowing about people to Knowing people
• Demographics aren't always correct
- Let go of what you think you know so you get to actually know them.
o Stop counting likes and shares
-Count gospel conversations and meals with real people
1. What are the relationship cracks in my community?
-What is missing
- Fill in the needs people have
Incarnational Experimentation
o Develop habits and rhythms that will help cultivate an evangelistic and missional life style
*Ask: Is this worth doing?
Turn your home into a hub instead of a refuge
1. How can you leverage your home to be a place where ministry spills out of the home
2. Posture of engaging and not hiding
3. Home can be a space to embody the gospel
o Loving people is an investment not a slot machine
- Long term investment(it takes time to mature)
- When you feel like quitting stick with it because you're just at the point when things will really start to mature
stayforth.com
Breakout
o What breaks your heart?
-Engage with the lost in the places that you are burdened
-Make sure that your ministries aren't presented as projects
-Ask how can you serve and provide what people need
When things are hard
o Make sure you stay connected
a. To God
-Prayer
-His Word
b. To community
-Ministry support team
-Regular fellowship with other believers
c. To like minded friends
-people that can relate to your situation
-people that share the same call/vision
"Power through prayer"
o Sometimes "failed" outreaches are effective because it makes people aware that you are there and outward focused
Disciple-Making
1.Are those we are disci;ling making disciples
2. Have we defined what a disciple looks like?
3. How many disciple-makers do we have in our church?
4. Do we have an easily reproducible system for making disciples?
5. Are we equipping people to be disciple makers?
*Do the people in your church take responsibility for discipleship personally?
*Are you bottle necking discipleship?
- Is discipleship contained by a glass jar?
- Limited to book work or just stuff that you know in a formal meeting
*Read together, Pray together, Obey together
*How do you make discipleship the norm?
*It is better to get people involved in making disciples than waiting
- More learning and sanctification comes from leading than being discipled
Moving people into the process of discipleship
1. Guest Services Ministry
How do you pair people into discipling relationships?
a. Try three meetings to see if people click
Leadership Development
What do we look for?
How do we start to train leaders?
Leadership Development basics
o Organize around basic functioning needs
What kind of leaders do we want to train?
1. Local
a. People that have relationships with people in the community
b. People that are burdened for the people around them
c. People that understand the cultural context
-leads to a contextual gospel presentation
3. Spirit Empowered
a. Emboldened to make relationships
b. Humble and dependent on God
People to start with
a. People that give
b.
How do we begin?
1. Understand, articulate and share teh gospel
2. understand articulate and share our theological foundation
3. understand articulate and share our vision
4. understand nd particpate in needs in teams.
LD2
1. COmprehend and practice:
-Basic Spiritual disciplines
-Rhythms
- Comprehend and articulate and share the gospel
- Comprehend our definition of Discipleship
LD3
After Serving:
1. Lead a team(Functional or ministerial)
2. Partner with staff to develop healthy growth plans
3. Understand and commit ot making disciples
1. Multiply Gospel Comprehension
2. Multiply Theological Foundation
-Why are you doing what you are doing?
4. Multiply Contextual Vision
-not just a slogan
solidrock.us/gateway
To start:
Know what a disciple is
Be a disciple
• A loved child of God called by the Father to obey Him
Jesus only did 3 things on earth
1. Abiding relationship with the Father
-Prayer
-Obeys the Father's will
2. Spent time connecting with the family
-fellowship with other believers
3. Sharing the mission
*Don't waste relationships
-Don't underestimate the impact of relationships you might have
Landmines in Church Planting
1. Be certain of your calling
o know yourself
-Your call will free you and anchor you when things get tough
o Build your team around your weaknesses
-You need to have initiative and a self starter
3. Decide on YOUR vision
-Know what you need to do for your context
-BE YOURSELF
5. Learn the art of self-awareness
o Assess the situation around you
-Know what is going on in your team
- Take care of your family
- Take care of your health
- Move toward the funk
o If you sense something is wrong don't avoid it confront the problem
o Take regular rest/ Step back so you can gain perspective
7. Myth: I'll be effective if I'm just FAITHFUL
a. Faithful men and women that are willing to work hard AND smart
9. MULTIPLY your church
a. Don't start too early
Church Planting Landmines
1. Ignoring Personal Development
-when they stop learning they stop leading
-Boredom is the secret ailment of large scale organizations- John Gardner
-Fresh movement in your life means you are developing yourself
. Staleness comes from Isolationism
- Let other people pour into you
- Have a support team
People become stale in their marriage
- Take time to invest in your marriage/close relationships
- Don't neglect Friendship
2. Derail your vision
- "chatter" that obscures our situational awareness
- don't set aside your vision
3. Mind and Soul Rest
• Solitude, Silence
- Psalm 116:1-9
Practices to replenish yourself
1. Sleep
2. Read for pleasure
3. Get away with your family and don't do ministry
Redo lessons
1. Put people in leadership positions too soon
2. Trust in the power of God's Word
- make more of the expositional preaching of God's Word
3. Be a good steward of your time
- Put structure in your life
- Have places to do work
4. Cast vision
- You can never do it enough
- People need to be reminded and there are always new people that have never heard it
- Clarify and Defend vision
5. Ask more questions
- Be a life long learner
o Assimilation plan needs to be scalable
Having a Pastor is just as important as being a pastor
o You need someone to help shelter your heart
o Someone to ask:
-How is God speaking into your life?
-How does God want to work in your life
*A person that helps you pay attention to God
o Someone that will care and pray for you
How do you find a Pastor/Soul Shepherd?
1. Pray and ask God to reveal someone to you in your relational landscape
-Look and Listen
2. A person that listens and that wants to hear about your life
3. A person that is wise
4. Honors confidentiality
5. Integrity
6. Someone that is empathetic
-Soul Mentoring needs to be more important than numerical success
A. Being is just as important as doing
*As soon as we stop hearing the voice of the one who calls us "beloved" we will look for someone to call us beloved
*Remember that God loves you
-You are the beloved of God
-Jesus ministry began after God said that he was his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased
o Find someone that is safe and you can be authentic with
Spiritual health of the Planter/Family
1. Die to the idea of growing the Church and think of how you can grow the kingdom
2. Die to the idea of being a successful planter
God can do more in a moment than I can do in a life time
3. Prioritize intimacy with God in your life
-You are made to be in relationship with God, if you are too busy to spend time with God you are too busy
4. Take time off weekly
-Rest
5. Take time off quarterly
6. Abandon Annually
Everyone who has an affair in the ministry first had an affair with ministry
*God is not concerned with your spiritual life He's concerned with your life.
Stretch yourself
IF I get everything I ever dreamed for in ministry but it comes at the expense of my family I'll have nothing.
o Choose to cheat but don't cheat your family
Dangers
1. Corruption of Spiritual disciplines
-using them utilitarian
3. Overexposure to the church
4. Fatigue
5. Constant exposure to the worst parts of people's lives
Dennis Newkirk
Soul Care
405-202-2927
Resonate Church
509-432-5358
Urgent, Multiplying, Collegiate
Church Planting, Movement
o Innovation comes from Urgency
-High innovation, High risk
Multiplying
-Celebrate what is important
*disciples whose disciples make disciples
-Core success metrics revolve around discipleship
Collegiate= College students are the most reachable, trainable, and sendable demographic on earth. Play the long game.
-Sendability built into the natural rhythm of the church
o Next Generation of the work force and the church
Church Planting
o Apostolic impulse brings systemic health
Movment: Create systems that empower and release the body for maximum kingdom impact.
Value of community makes the metric of small groups important
-Can you communicate your evangelistic system without using words?
-Draw out behaviors
*moved from counting people that attend service , to small groups, to salvation
-focused on freshman
Rhythms of building and sending
o Build year
o Send year
-people in the new sites have a clearer vision of the original mission and values
Leading leaders doesn't mean that you will lead leaders well
o It's easier and better to start with raw material than to have to work with people that are coming from another culture
Mystery of Leadership
* Consistent processes you put in people's lives
* Catalytic moments
-Exponential growth starts slow
Maclake.com
Choose Multiplication Values
Choose Multiplication Metrics
Choose Multiplying Leaders
-Choose to create rivers not plates
o Rivers send
o Plates collect
Short game is counting collections of people
Long game is counting the number of sent people
Church planters are the chief missiologist of their town
-Site pastors contextualize the teaching every week
o Use every opportunity to provide a ministry/missions project during breaks
-3 day/extended weekends
-holidays/breaks
Colossians 1:9-14
Eastvale bible church
o Win the men to win the family
-Win the family you start to win the community
o Value Biblical Literacy so you can take ownership of your role in the church.
*The church will be known by it's love for one another
-something done not just something that is talked about
Matt Lawson
o What are you willing to risk to be more than normal?
o Exegeting the culture so you can speak clearly to the people in your community.
Think entreprenurially
Evaluate
Process
Plan
Consistently communicate vision
-You need to be able to hug people and can't just preach
-You can't please everyone and please God
Story City Church
-plant to fit the lead pastor's personality
-dictated church culture/ not collaborative
Small churches need to train up and send out leaders
-Head
-Heart
-Hands
Raise up preachers
-give preachers the opportunity to grow in faithful preaching of the word
Very Respectfully,
Tim Salomon
520-505-1595
Tim Salomon
520-505-1595