New Churches Podcast

Build in the Beginning What You Want in the End


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Episode 691: Whatever you want to be true of your church in maturity must be embedded at the beginning. Host Clint Clifton discusses with Todd Adkins and Jamie Limato how a church planter should be thinking about his end goals from the very beginning.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
  • Why it’s detrimental for a planter to hold off until the church is “ready for that”
  • How goals themselves can be recruiting tools
  • What values you should be communicating from the beginning
  • How choosing values is like buying a pair of pants
  • Why the stories you tell are so important
  • Helpful Resources:
    • Atomic Habits by James Clear
    • Interested in learning more? Check out our Church Planting Primer
    • Are you ready to enroll in our Church Planting Masterclass?
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      Sharable Quotes (#NewChurches):

      James Clear says Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour. Systems are greater than our goals, to some degree, and habits over outcomes. —Jamie Limato

      The regular rhythms of what you do day-to-day in pastoral work are going to affect the outcome a lot more than even your talking points or your big initiatives. @ClintJClifton

      Clear and compelling vision is your currency. You can’t buy your way to the church you want. You want to build your way to the church you want. @ToddAdkins

      Ultimately, creating more spaces on the net for people to take ownership is going to help lead to long-term success. —Jamie Limato

      We actually failed at some of those things, but we failed at the right things. Falling and getting back up seemed to further solidify a commitment to multiplication. @ClintJClifton

      Everything has an opportunity cost. Anything you say yes to is setting a precedent, and that precedent carried forward can grow out of control like kudzu. @ToddAdkins

      Whether your church is 5 years old, 10 years old, 20 years old or 1 year old, plant those seeds immediately and just wait to see them grow. Water them by celebrating and talking and telling the stories about it. —Jamie Limato

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