Exponential NEXT Podcast

In this episode, Ralph and Myron will interview church planting leaders Drew Hyun and Janet McMahon on 5 Paradigm Shifts for Multiplication. Together, they’ll discuss how to release others for multiplication, shifting your operating system, the importance of creating opportunities for ever disciple to become a missionary, and more.

The people of God have already been sent and strategically placed by Jesus. And for many, those places are outside the walls of your church building. Join us for Episode 7 featuring special guest Danielle Strickland with co-hosts Rob Wegner and Brian Phipps!

The people of God have already been sent and strategically placed by Jesus. And for many, those places are outside the walls of your church building.

Join us for Episode 7 featuring special guest Danielle Strickland with co-hosts Rob Wegner and Brian Phipps!

When you begin to surrender our strategies and our belief that you’re building the church while others help by filling the spots you’ve predetermined, you begin to wage the war Christ has called us to fight. Join us for Episode 6 featuring special guest Myron Pierce with co-hosts Rob Wegner and Brian Phipps!

When you begin to surrender our strategies and our belief that you’re building the church while others help by filling the spots you’ve predetermined, you begin to wage the war Christ has called us to fight.

Join us for Episode 6 featuring special guest Myron Pierce with co-hosts Rob Wegner and Brian Phipps!

Leveraging the metaphor Ori Brafman popularized in his NYT best-selling book, The Starfish and the Spider, Rob Wegner, Lance Ford, and Alan Hirsch show why the distributed structures of starfish organizations are uniquely fit to the church. They can function without a rigid central authority, and their regenerative abilities make them nimbler in reacting to external … Starfish and the Spirit Episode 1 Read More »

Leveraging the metaphor Ori Brafman popularized in his NYT best-selling book, The Starfish and the Spider, Rob Wegner, Lance Ford, and Alan Hirsch show why the distributed structures of starfish organizations are uniquely fit to the church. They can function without a rigid central authority, and their regenerative abilities make them nimbler in reacting to external forces. Seeding starfish networks inside today’s churches will prepare the church of tomorrow to be agile while still maintaining the necessary accountability to be effective.

Rather than advocating the adoption of a starfish structure in place of the hierarchy of the spider, Wegner, Ford, and Hirsch emphasize the advantages of adapting the structure and order inherent in a spider organization toward a hybrid model–either a Spiderfish approach (leaning toward centralization) or a Starder approach (leaning toward decentralization).

Sooner or later, it seems like all ministry leaders hit a point where they can’t go any further. Maybe you’re at that point. Maybe you’re close. Wherever you are, you need practical steps and healthy rhythms to propel you back into a place where you’re leading from an overflow instead of scraping the bottom of … Healthy Rhythms Episode 5: Overcoming Burnout Read More »

Sooner or later, it seems like all ministry leaders hit a point where they can’t go any further. Maybe you’re at that point. Maybe you’re close. Wherever you are, you need practical steps and healthy rhythms to propel you back into a place where you’re leading from an overflow instead of scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Join Wayne Cordeiro, Winfield Bevins, and Keri Ladouceur as they discuss ways to prevent burnout and how to recover when your limits have been pushed too far.

Church planters often lack funds, people, time, but one thing they are rarely short on is vision. In the words of Andy Stanley they have a clear mental picture of what could be and what should be. While church planters rarely lack vision, they often struggle to infect others around them with that vision, so … Nuts & Bolts of Church Planting Episode 3: How to Cast Vision Read More »