churchplanters.com takeaways

day 1

Reggie Joiner:

• We can’t compete with culture in production, but culture cannot compete with the church in the arena of relationships.
• What if we gauged the health of our student ministries not by the attendance of our large groups, but by the number of students serving.
• (An oldie but goodie.)  The church has about 40 hours a year to invest in a child, parents have 3,000.

Ed Stetzer:

• Churchplanting is simply a tool…disciple making is the end goal.
• The goal is not momentum…God wants your church on a pathway to spiritual maturity.
• You can’t get your people to serve Jesus in the long term if they don’t know him in the short term.
• Don’t be strategy rich but spiritually bankrupt.
• Pastor, if you are always the hero to your people then Jesus can’t be.
• Acts 17:11  Do your people welcome the message with eagerness and examine the scriptures themselves?