TOP ISSUES CHURCH

PLANTERS FACE

ISSUE #1 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCING CULTURE

Lack of Experience

Feeling the Need for Speed (Volunteers)

No Core Leaders

ISSUE #1 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCING CULTURE

Feeling the Need for Speed (Paid Staff)

Need for Resources

Realities for Reproduction

ISSUE #2 FINANCIAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND VIABILITY

The BiVo Challenge

Tension Over Talking/Teaching About Giving

ISSUE #2 FINANCIAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND VIABILITY

Limited Budget Experience

Flow of Funds Trap

Personal Financial Impact

ISSUE #3 LAUNCH TEAM DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILIZING VOLUNTEERS

Healthy Launch Teams Are Mission Critical When Seeking to Start in the Way We Discussed

Church Planting Is a Team Sport

ISSUE #3 LAUNCH TEAM DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILIZING VOLUNTEERS

Pre-Launch Tasks vs. Relationships

A Core Group of Believers Is Not Always a Good Thing

New Church Core Teams Experience Fallout

ISSUE #4 SYSTEMS, PROCESSES, AND CULTURES

God’s Part and Our Part

A Fix-It Mentality

Assessing Health

ISSUE #4 SYSTEMS, PROCESSES, AND CULTURES

Pre-Launch Behaviors

Urgency and Accountability

ISSUE #5 CASTING VISION AND AVOIDING MISSION DRIFT

Clarity

Core Values

Mission, Vision, and Values

ISSUE #5 CASTING VISION AND AVOIDING MISSION DRIFT

Ministry Philosophy

Non-Negotiables

ISSUE #6 EVANGELISM AND DISCIPLESHIP

Five challenges:1. Multiple time demands2. Discerning how to practice faith in a

world not limited to direct evangelism only

3. Living incarnationally and engaging in culture

4. Implementing a deliberate evangelistic and disciple-making strategy

5. Making small groups work

ISSUE #6 EVANGELISM AND DISCIPLESHIP

Two observations: Distracted by the Planting Process

Internal Scorecard

ISSUE #7 SPIRITUAL, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PLANTER/FAMILY

Battle to overcome pride, self-reliance, drivenness, and an uncoachable attitude

Loneliness and isolation

ISSUE #7 SPIRITUAL, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PLANTER/FAMILY

Mistrust

Lack of rest

Maintaining joy

CONCLUSIONS/HIGHLIGHTS Challenges of planting commonly

result in discouragement and loneliness

A rigorous assessment process is necessary

Spousal support systems should be added to church planting systems

CONCLUSIONS/HIGHLIGHTS Peer-to-peer relationships and

networks are vital

Getting systems in place is key before going public

Church planting mentors and coaches are important

Discerning the difficult and painful decision between quitting and persevering