There’s a shift in focus for church planters who are utilizing missional principles to start churches. Rather than starting services to make disciples, they are making disciples and then starting churches.

Planting a church doesn’t start with launching worship services in a community. It starts with incarnating the gospel where you live.

Patrick of Ireland | missionalchallenge.com

Momentum is a powerful force. With momentum, you can advance forward rapidly. Without it, forward motion will eventually stall.

God has done some amazing things in the first year at South Bay Church in Santa Clara, California. You’ve got to watch the video…

What would happen if churches would remove the Queen?

Clarify Your Values | missionalchallenge.com

Values reflect a person’s unique beliefs, core convictions, and guiding principles. These values will guide ongoing attitudes and behaviors. Often times, values are unwritten assumptions that guide actions.

Church Planting: START HERE! | missionalchallenge.com

George Patterson, who served as a missionary to Honduras where he pioneered principles of church planting that resulted in the spontaneous multiplication of churches, notes this:

Every church planter needs a coach!

I started Lake Hills Church when I was 25 years old. I had just graduated from seminary – and somehow I was just naive enough to think that I could do it.

A few years ago, Deanne and I took a few weeks vacation during the summer with our kids. When we came back to our church the next Sunday, I got up to preach and was interrupted in my sermon.