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September 21, 2020Episode 528: Challenges Multisite Churches Face During COVID
In Episode 528 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss the dilemma that many multisite churches are facing.
“There seems to be a common question between my multisite friends. We have two locations and they are both meeting at schools and because of COVID we have shrunk back to one location and we are doing small outside services. Likewise, even some of the very large multisite churches are closing locations and collapsing them back to their sending campus. Do you think that this is permanent given renting from schools will likely change, and, if so, what can we do to build momentum when conventional growth metrics are free-falling? FYI, we do online and get pretty solid engagement and reach, It’s been great to reach this new audience, but how do we make sure that we don’t leave our established people behind. Thanks for the steady hand in difficult times.”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
What challenges churches that rent their meeting space are facing
How churches can continue to connect with established members
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“I’ve talked to several churches whose schools are already telling them they can’t meet there.” – @toddadkins
“Someone may be attending your small group, but they are attending a different church online in the morning.” – @toddadkins
“There are going to be a lot of church planters, house churches, and smaller churches that come out of this.” – @toddadkins
“With the economy being the way it is, and how COVID has affected it, sooner or later there are going to be businesses who want the rental income.” – @danielsangi
“I do believe that multisite is still a valid and valuable strategy alongside church planting.” – @danielsangi
“What our city needs is healthy, thriving, growing, and multiplying churches that are reaching the lost.” – @toddadkins
“You can’t forsake or neglect the in-person or real life phone call or shoulder tap.” – @danielsangi
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September 17, 2020Episode 527: Politics and the Church
In Episode 527 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss how pastors can lead through the current political circumstances.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
If politics are the driving force of our division
How politics are affecting our gospel mission
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“Not only are we divided politically, but our political division comes right down to the front door of your church of whether or not you should meet.” – @edstetzer
“Political realities have been driving the church more than the mission of Jesus in this season.” – @edstetzer
“Far too many people are being discipled by their cable news choices and spiritually shaped by their social media feed.” – @edstetzer
“Everything has been politicized and, therefore, politics have been weaponized.” – @edstetzer
“I’ve never seen a more divided time in the culture that has now seeped into and become a driving, divisive force in the church.” – @edstetzer
“We look far less like Christians who are showing and sharing the love of Jesus, and far more like partisan hacks who at the end of the day have lost their ability to have a witness because they are so driven by the ideology.” – @edstetzer
“Already, the ideological partisanship being shaped by something other than the gospel is becoming one of the great moments leading people astray from the truth of the gospel, and this will have implications for generations.” – @edstetzer
Recommended Resources:
Read Christians in the Age of Outrage by Ed Stetzer
Read “Echochambers in Discipleship” by Daniel Im
Read “Evangelicals need to address the QAnoners in our midst” by Ed Stetzer
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September 14, 2020Episode 526:The Job of Discipleship
In Episode 526 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss the pastor’s job of discipleship.
“How can churches get better at online discipleship and impactful life change with current physical gathering and serving restrictions?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why a discipleship pathway is always vital in a church
What it means to be a disciple and to disciple others
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“As the pastor, your job hasn’t changed. Your job isn’t to fill seats. Your job is to make disciples who make disciples.” – @danielsangi
“COVID or not, we need to be about life change, we need to be about impacting our communities, and we need to be about discipling.” – @danielsangi
“Do you have a discipleship pathway? Not a temporary one that is online, but actually a robust one that works both digitally and physically.” – @danielsangi
“Disciples make disciples.” – @toddadkins
“Your strategy should have been disciples making disciples all along.” – @toddadkins
“Work on your processes. Develop your discipleship pathway. Simplify your leadership pipeline.” – @danielsangi
Recommended Resources:
Listen to Episode 524: Scattering and Gathering the Church
Read “What Covid-19 Is Revealing About Your Church”
Take the Complete COVID-19 Course on Ministry Grid
Listen to Episode 518: Leadership Pipeline and Core Competencies
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September 10, 2020Episode 525: Is COVID-19 Fundamentally Changing the Soil for the Church?
In Episode 525 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss the missiological implications of the potential aversion people would have to large group gatherings.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why there is an openness to the gospel
What new ways of doing church might people be ready to consider
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“Can something fundamentally change the way people think and thus the way they behave, in such a way that would have significant missiological implications?” – @edstetzer
“The revolution changed the soil, so the kind of church that would grow in that soil changed, but it became much more rapidly reproducing.” – @edstetzer
“The size of a church, the kind of a building it meets in, those are not biblically-mandated things.” – @edstetzer
“Churches are remarkably adaptable as culture changes, and if we move into a time when the big meeting is seen as a threat, we are actually going to see churches multiply groups instead of expand in one large place.” – @edstetzer
“Churches are notorious for starting things, but not stopping them. COVID has given the opportunity for churches all over to cut things.” – @danielsangi
“The advantage of starting a church right now is it is legitimately fresh DNA.” – @danielsangi
“The moment we are in shapes the mission we are on and we want to seize that by multiplying rather than expanding.” – @edstetzer
Recommended Resources:
Read “Marks of a Biblical Church” by Ed Stetzer
Listen to Episode 521: I’m Planting a Church This Month
Listen to Episode 523: Should I Plant a House Church?
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September 07, 2020Episode 524: Scattering and Gathering the Church
In Episode 524 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss why scattering the church is as important as gathering the church.
“Would love to hear your thoughts on what microsites and home churches look like in a time of COVID and post-COVID. Secondarily, how can churches get better at online discipleship and impactful life change with the current physical gathering and serving restrictions?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why we need to be focused on scattering the church
Why leading change and people is important during this time
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“I think they are essential to your strategy right now and if you are not moving people toward them you are missing out.” – @toddadkins
“How do we get better at scattering than we are at gathering?” – @danielsangi
“I wonder if God is calling us to work on our weaker arms?” – @danielsangi
“The gathering side is more exciting, but the scattering piece is as much a part of what it means to be a church as the gathering.” – @danielsangi
“A leader has to lead change, and in order to lead change you have to lead people well.” – @toddadkins
“One of the things that we have to remember is that people are carriers of culture.” – @toddadkins
“We have great ability to invite people into higher levels of ministry opportunity and service.” – @toddadkins
Recommended Resources:
Listen to Episode 520: Digital and Physical Ministry
Listen to Episode 522: Digital Pastor vs. Digital Champion
Read “What Covid-19 Is Revealing About Your Church”
Listen to Churches and COVID-19 #2: Mariners Church with Eric Geiger
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September 03, 2020Episode 523: Should I Plant a House Church?
In Episode 523 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss house church planting.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why house churches might become more popular
How cultural disruption might change church practices
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“There is a context, a place if you will, for nimble, small, and rapidly reproducing right now. And that’s the spot where church planters find themselves.” – @edstetzer
“I think a house church can have all of the biblical marks of a church.” – @edstetzer
“Remember that house churches are foreign feeling to most people in the United States, Canada, and most of the English speaking western world.” – @edstetzer
“People may start becoming more accustomed to smaller, more intentional gatherings.” – @edstetzer
“Cultural disruption is always a gospel opportunity.” – @edstetzer
“Sometimes a cultural disruption leads to a disruption of a common practice, and one of our common practices is we gather in large groups for worship.” – @edstetzer
“We could see an aversion to large groups, and an openness to small groups.” – @edstetzer
Recommended Resources:
Listen to Episode 521: I’m Planting a Church This Month
Listen to the Stetzer Leadership Podcast
Read “Marks of a Biblical Church” by Ed Stetzer
Read “Counting People Who Attend House Churches” by Ed Stetzer
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August 31, 2020Episode 522: Digital Pastor vs. Digital Champion
In Episode 522 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss how to make the digital role more permanent.
“What is the difference between a digital pastor and a digital champion?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why creating a new digital role is complicated
What a digital champion could be responsible for
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“The digital role, is more of a champion role where they are envisioning digital ministry to support and scale up and help every ministry area be as good digitally as they are physically.” – @danielsangi
“Not everybody is going to have that many people online to justify a full role.” – @toddadkins
“In order to justify a full-time role in any ministry area, there has to be enough ministry being done.” – @toddadkins
“The idea of a digital champion scales a lot better than a digital pastor or online pastor.” – @danielsangi
“This is a role where you could have a 20-something that is a digital native that gets this be that expert for you and do it as a volunteer.” – @danielsangi
“This digital champion role essentially goes into and partners with every ministry area to help them develop a strategy to translate their physical strategy to digital and contextualize as need be.” – @danielsangi
“Regardless of your budget, size of church, attendance, whether you are regathering or not, I would highly encourage you to think about this digital champion role.” – @danielsangi
Recommended Resources:
Listen to Episode 520: Digital and Physical Ministry
Listen to Churches and COVID-19 #3: Saddleback Church with Jay Kranda
Learn more about Ministry Grid
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August 27, 2020Episode 521: I’m Planting a Church This Month
In Episode 521 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss church planting in current times and in general.
“I’m planting this month. What advice do you have for me?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why right now is a good time to plant churches
Why a multiplication movement could happen
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“This is a good time to plant a church. This is a good time to be a pastor at a small church.” – @edstetzer
“This is a good time to plant churches because people are spiritually open.” – @edstetzer
“I predict that in Fall 2020 and early 2021, we are going to see churches that are planted that really become significant churches, that are going to become multiplying churches around the world.” – @edstetzer
“During COVID, we have less money and engagement is hard to measure online, but what is fascinating is the number of new people that are turning into our service.” – @danielsangi
“This pandemic has shaken the foundations that we have trusted in and people are spiritually searching.” – @danielsangi
“What does it look like with more autonomous, smaller, more reproducible units?” – @edstetzer
“If COVID becomes the downward pressure on larger gatherings, God actually could use that to birth a multiplication movement.” – @edstetzer
Recommended Resources:
Listen to Stetzer Leadership Podcast
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August 24, 2020Episode 520: Digital and Physical Ministry
In Episode 520 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss how to meet as a church in person and digitally well.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
If you should consider offering equal opportunities in digital and physical spaces
What other churches are doing to offer both
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“How do we make sure our digital experience is as good as our physical experience and vice versa?” – @danielsangi
“The reality is you have good and godly and smart people on both sides of this argument.” – @toddadkins
“You have to provide as much clarity as possible in leading forward and in guarding your culture and unity in the body.” – @toddadkins
“Pre-COVID we put our best sound guy in the auditorium, and whatever went to the broadcast wasn’t tweaked. Digital was an afterthought.” – @danielsangi
“Give your team the freedom to imagine what both a digital and a physical environment would look like.” – @danielsangi
“We are going to be talking about the difference between a digital pastor and a digital champion.” – @danielsangi
“This distinction between what a digital pastor is and a digital champion is, there’s a big difference regardless in the size of your church.” – @danielsangi
Recommended Resources:
Listen to the 5 Leadership Questions Podcast
Read Exponential by Dave Ferguson and Jon Ferguson
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August 20, 2020 Episode 519: Reopening vs. Relaunching
Daniel and Ed discuss if churches need a relaunching or a reopening mindset.
The post Episode 519: Reopening vs. Relaunching appeared first on NewChurches.com - Church Planting, Multisite, and Multiplication.
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