CFTROU 0157 – The Power of the Neighborhood Church: A Conversation with Dr. Gregg Allison

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CFTROU 0069: Church Planting for The Rest of Us Join us for a candid conversation with Dr. Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board (NAMB), about church planting for the rest of us. Kevin has shifted the culture at NAMB to be more church-focused and planter-focused. They are focused on serving churches of any size and planters with a passion to reach all kinds of people. Kevin believes that the best way to reach the millions of far from God people in North American is to plant more churches. Learn what NAMB is doing and how you can be a part! Key Points: Rebuilding and revitalizing a troubled church. Making a career transition from pastor to president of NAMB. How the function and mission of NAMB has shifted to be more focused and church-centered. Cultural shifts taking place in church planting. The need for more high-capacity church planters. Intentional training for those who are called to live on mission in North America. NAMB success stories. How God is using church plants on college campuses. How pastors and individuals can get involved in church planting. Pastors are our number one customer. We’re here to serve pastors … they’re not here to serve us. If it were not for churches, there would be no @namb_sbc.Click To TweetEverything we do @namb_sbc is about the gospel, it’s all about the gospel.Click To TweetTo me that is the best strategy to reach North America is to plant more churches; we’ve just not kept up with the population increase.Click To Tweet Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: North American Mission Board Dr. Kevin Ezell on Twitter NAMB on Twitter Highview Baptist Church Lynette Ezell on Twitter SPC Leslee Bennett on Twitter Jimmy on Twitter Get podcast updates delivered to your inbox. Subscribe for free and never miss out on an episode of Church for the Rest of Us. Subscribe via Email iTunes Google Play Stitcher RSS If you like us, rate us or leave a comment below. Hopefully, this episode has given you principles, strategies, and ideas that you can implement right now with the resources you have. If so, can you let others know? The best way to do that is to rate the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher and leave us a brief positive review! This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

CFTROU 0031: Multisite Church for the Rest of Us Today we conclude a series on multisite church with our friend and church leadership expert, Kadi Cole. Kadi is going to share 8 factors for a church of any size to consider prior to going multisite. They are: vision, a strong core team, funding, launch strategy, and more. Kadi also gives us some insight into potential barriers to multisite growth as well as the characteristics shared by successful multisite churches. Key Points: Eight factors to consider before going multisite. The need for a clear, compelling vision. The importance of having a core team of both leaders and doers. Emphasis on people over location, facility, and logistics. Utilizing reverse engineering. The importance of the campus pastor. How budget and funding can dictate other decisions. Defining the “win”. Maintaining a consistent strategy across ministry areas. Common characteristics of successful multisite churches. Multisite isn’t vision; it’s strategy.Click To TweetThe people are more important than the facility – we are called to a people, not a building.Click To TweetThe great thing about multisite is that there are so many options – there are as many options as there are churches.Click To Tweet Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Kadi Cole Kadi Cole on Twitter Jimmy on Twitter Get podcast updates delivered to your inbox. Subscribe for free and never miss out on an episode of Church for the Rest of Us. Subscribe via Email iTunes Google Play Stitcher RSS If you like us, rate us or leave a comment below. Hopefully, this episode has given you principles, strategies, and ideas that you can implement right now with the resources you have. If so, can you let others know? The best way to do that is to rate the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher and leave us a brief positive review! This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

CFTROU 0087: Multisite Church for the Rest of Us – The Jimmy Scroggins Story This season we are diving into the world of multisite churches. Our Lead Pastor, Jimmy Scroggins, is a pioneer and well-versed in the multisite movement. He shares the lessons he has learned along the way to building the Family Church Network. He explains the framework and the Biblical foundation involved with developing a “network of neighborhood churches.” He credits God for putting important people in his life that mentored him and equipped him with a robust knowledge base. We also listen to him as explains having to “build the plane as we fly it” at times; in the spirit of resourcefulness and having faith that God will move through the efforts that Pastor Jimmy and his leaders put forth. Key Points: Pastor Jimmy's early experiences of multisite ideas and planting churches. The people who were integral in his life as he learned how to do multisite; and the lessons he had to figure out on his own. Why Pastor Jimmy chose to do multisite and chose live preaching as his model. The importance of finding a capable and willing leader to lead the new site. Why Pastor Jimmy made the choice to move to West Palm Beach. What's coming up in our next episode and the rest of this season! I really had no expectation that it would work, but lo and behold multisite started working.Click To TweetIn order to make multisite work, you need to have a leader willing to lead the new site.Click To Tweet Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Rick Warren Jimmy on Twitter Leslee Bennett on Twitter Get podcast updates delivered to your inbox. Subscribe for free and never miss out on an episode of Church for the Rest of Us. Subscribe via Email iTunes Google Play Stitcher RSS If you like us, rate us or leave a comment below. Hopefully, this episode has given you principles, strategies, and ideas that you can implement right now with the resources you have. If so, can you let others know? The best way to do that is to rate the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher and leave us a brief positive review! This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.