Tom Nebel and Ben Ingebretson join us for our next Equipping for Multiplication podcast. In this session based on their book of the same name, the two veteran leaders look at other churches that have tried to unsuccessfully parent a new congregation to mine valuable lessons every sending church can learn from. Drawing from their experience of working with hundreds of leaders, Nebel and Ingebretson offer invaluable insights for avoiding a costly, demoralizing and painful disaster. In this podcast excerpt, Nebel shares what he has discovered as the key to successful planting and stewarding (in addition to assessment and coaching)....

Shawn Lovejoy joins us for our next Equipping for Multiplication podcast. In this session from Exponential 2016, Lovejoy focuses on how churches can send well and thus avoid getting a “black eye.” Drawing on his hard knocks experience as both a church planter and then leading a parenting church, Lovejoy tackles the four best practices of church planters while equipping sending leaders to have coaching conversations with the church planters they send out. In this podcast excerpt, he shares that the No. 1 best practice for sending well is to not only know how to launch churches, but also how to...

One of my personal highlights from Exponential East was an unplanned, impromptu opportunity to spend about 45 minutes and create this Ralph Moore podcast interview. I was excited to meet and talk to Ralph because I had been using his church as an example of what we mean by a Level 5 Church. I have used Ralph’s churches as an example because of what Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird wrote about them in Viral Churches: “Ralph Moore no longer knows how to operate without starting new churches on a consistent basis. He and his congregations have grown accustomed to the...

In this session from Exponential 2016, Phil Struckmeyer shares the good, bad and the ugly of the development of a church-planting network within a denomination.

Ed Stetzer and Dhati Lewis join us for our next Equipping for Multiplication podcast. In this session from Exponential 2016, the two church-planting leaders talk about what it looks like to intentionally create best practices and sending church systems that can actually set up a church to multiply. Both Ed and Dhati have not only planted churches but also lead churches to plant churches out of their churches. In this podcast excerpt, Dhati shares the core of how Blueprint has begun to raise up church planters. Sending Church Systems – Ed Stetzer & Dhati Lewis “We have to embrace this...

Daniel Im discusses how church leaders can easily use technology to train, support, empower, and coach their leaders—unleashing a culture of multiplication.

In this session from the Exponential East 2016 conference, Steve Addison and Troy Cooper unpack what it takes to make the transition from church to movement. Throughout the session, they introduce several catalytic church leaders who share inspiring firsthand stories of movement and how they’re seeing the multiplication of disciples fuel the multiplication of churches. As Addison says, “I know a lot because I partner and hang out with people who have stories to tell.” As the director of MOVE, an Australian-based mission agency focused on multiplying disciples and churches, Steve is a student and teacher of movements, internationally recognized...

In this session from the Exponential conference, Ron Tobias shares proven multiplication strategies, including hiring and developing potential church planters, financing and vision casting, as well as potential roadblocks that can jeopardize your church’s multiplication culture.

In this session from the Exponential conference, Tom Planck insightfully and practically explores what it looks like to challenge yourself and your church to ask the profound, right multiplication questions, specifically as we flip the question from “Should we multiply?” to “How will we multiply?” As the multiplication catalyst for the national network Healthy Growing Churches and lead pastor at Journey Church in West Chester, Ohio, a multisite church he and his wife, Andrea, planted in 2005, Tom is deeply passionate about engaging leaders to multiply. In the podcast excerpt below, he shares what he has learned about the starting...

In this session from the Exponential conference, Brian Hook explores the difference between funding churches and multiplying movements, and very clearly explains why church planting is not only the best way to reach a community, but also is the very heart of God, a movement before time that God has called us to participate in with Him.