Practical Church

Here are some practical things your church can try as we move online during the coronavirus.

Welcome to welcome to episode 170 of Practical Church Planting.

We discuss these nine things your church could do or try during the coronavirus:

• Pre-record and post sermon as live using OneStream
• 5-minute devotionals
• Resources pages on the church website
• Online prayer gathering
• Online communion
• Coronavirus giving fund
• Church Online from Life Church
• Individually email all church members
• Serve a retirement community/neighborhood

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Learn some of the best tips for effective fundraising.

Welcome to welcome to episode 169 of Practical Church Planting.

In this episode, I (Dylan) have a conversation with Jordan Penley, one of the best fundraisers I know. In this episode, you'll get tips and advice on the best way to raise financial support.

Want more help with fundraising? Connect with Jordan Penley at JordanPenley.com.

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Consistent gatherings pre-launch are vital for a healthy new church.

Welcome to welcome to episode 169 of Practical Church Planting.

In order to have effective outreach events as you serve the community and build a launch team, they need to be built around, not be in place of, consistent launch team gatherings.

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How can you create values for your church that your church actually values?

Welcome to welcome to episode 168 of Practical Church Planting.

How can you ensure the values you have for your church are actually values your church holds and accomplishes? In this episode, we discuss these four tips for effective core values:

• Limit how many you have
• Make the memorable
• Attach values to your behaviors
• Tweak them if you need to

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Being overwhelmed shouldn't be a given in ministry.

Welcome to welcome to episode 166 of Practical Church Planting.

It's commonplace to hear how "busy" everyone seems to be. The problem, however, is that when you read the Gospels you never get the sense that Jesus was every rushed or busy. This means being overwhelmed is not a badge of honor.

In this episode, we discuss these four reasons why pastors are often overwhelmed when it is own our fault:

• You don't proactively schedule your time
• You don't have a clear definition of what an emergency is
• There is a lack of discipline in how you handle your time
• You check your email too much

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There is always a lot to do in ministry. Here are some tips for how you can be more productive.

Welcome to welcome to episode 165 of Practical Church Planting.

Most people would say they want to be more productive, but often feel overwhelmed by all they have to do. In this episode, we discuss five easy tips you can implement right away to help you be more productive.

Click here to read Dylan's blog on the same topic.

Here are the five tips we discuss:

• Don't check email/social media until lunch
• Schedule your day ahead of time
• Start the night before
• Spend time with Jesus in the morning
• Set a hard end time to your workday

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Here are some resources we have found helpful.

Welcome to welcome to episode 164 of Practical Church Planting.

There are a lot of helpful tools and resources for churches. In this episode, we briefly discuss 13 different resources we use at New City Church that might be helpful to you and your church. We discuss these 13 resources:

• Planning Center
• Propresenter
• Nucleus (web & social)
• Acts 29
• Quickbooks
• Google Suite
• Subsplash
• Zoom
• Adobe
• Spotify
• Text in Church
• Mailchimp
• Groupme

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What is your sermon prep process like?

Welcome to welcome to episode 163 of Practical Church Planting.

In this episode, we share what Dylan's sermon prep process looks like. No matter what yours may look like, you need a process if you want to preach the best sermons you can.

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Do you make any of these mistakes?

Welcome to welcome to episode 162 of Practical Church Planting.

None of us are perfect preachers, but sometimes we can make mistakes that are easily fixable so long as we are being intentional about getting better. In this episode, we discuss these five mistakes preachers often make:

• Complexity over simplicity
• Length over impact
• Impressive over impressionable
• Podcast over people
• Behavior over Gospel

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What is the best way to preach?

Welcome to welcome to episode 161 of Practical Church Planting.

Is it better to preach expositionally or topically? The reality is both methods and be done faithfully and effectively. In this episode, we discuss both methods and share these four reasons as to why we lean towards expositional preaching:

• People want to know what the Scriptures actually say
• People need to learn how all of the Bible is helpful
• People are confused about the hard passages they read.
• Personal experience: I (Dylan) always get better feedback from expositional sermons

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