The One Thing

Church planting is hard work, even when you’re in familiar territory. But travelling to a regional area that lacks ministry resources and family support can make breaker ground for Jesus much, much harder. This episode Derek Hanna talks to Jai Wright, a church planter in Northern Queensland, to discover what really makes a difference in ministry when you leave the big smoke behind.

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Ministering to regional rural Australia with Bruce Bennett, from Orange Evangelical Church

Speak to Mark Short at The Bush Church Aid Society

How To Reach and Plant in Regional and Rural Australia, with Ross Pethybridge from Dalby Presbyterian Church

Healthy churches aren’t just those who grow their members in spiritual maturity, but ones that seek to grow the church of Christ overall. In short, healthy churches plant more churches. But how do you go about growing the sort of people who will want to be church planters? Derek Hanna and Scott Sanders discuss the ‘best practice’ approach to growing your own church planter.

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Here are three steps to help someone transition to becoming a church planter…

1. Do the Church Planter Competency Assessment, deployed by Geneva Push - https://genevapush.com/get-assessed/

 

2. Share Church planter stories - https://genevapush.com/search/?_sft_category=church-planting-stories

 

3. Start something new, like a Simply Christianity course or a new ministry

If you’re not posting on social media, you’re just not … social. These days social media giants like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are the way in which people share the multitude of digital moments in their lives. So how do you, as a church, make the most of these digital interactions? Scott and Derek talk to Gus, a former social media guru for major consumer electronic and FMCG brands for all the tricks of the trade.

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The Communications and IT course at Church In A Box Marketplace

A team to show you how to do IT effectively: New Front Door

The Australian Bureau of Statistics' QuickStats site

ID.com.au – The Population Experts

A critical part of leadership is recognizing that your fruit grows on other people’s trees. Many churches are waking up to the fact that every pastor is an interim pastor, and this maxim plays out at every level of your church’s leadership pipeline. Tod Adkins from Lifeway Leadership shows us how e very role in the local church is an interim role, and every leader is not successful until they have developed at least one successor.

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Succession at every level, by Tod Adkins

Transition plan: Seven secrets every leader should know, by Bob Russell

5 Leadership Questions episodes on this topic:

Pastoral succession

Leadership pipelines: content

Leadership pipeline: the people

90 Second Leadership - Succession 9-Box , with Todd Adkins

The Australian church often looks to the US church for what’s next – you can think of them as our big R&D department over the other side of the pacific. Today’s special guest, Daniel Im, is here to help us get a handle on how the North American church is going, and what’s worth taking note of.

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The State of Church Planting in the US, from New Churches

The New Churches website

No Silver Bullets, by Daniel Im

Mission isn’t about just running a single event. It’s planning a year that brings people closer to God. So how do you be more deliberate about your calendar, to more effectively help and serve those who are seeking begin to experience Christian community and explore the Gospel? In this episode we talk to Sam Hilton, the Mission Pastor from Hunter Bible Church and ask him to give us the key principles for planning a Mission Calendar.

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Questioning Evangelism,  by Randy Newman

A Better Story - God, Sex and Human Flourishing, by Glynn Harrison

The Bigger Questions podcast, by City Bible Fellowship

The Mobilising for Mission course, on Church In A Box Online

Leadership that deliberately shares authority is leadership that has an eye on the future. It mobilises, empowers and equips others to achieve significant tasks and fulfil substantial roles. Some people call this delegation, but we think the word “empowering” provides a better picture of what’s involved. And we speak to Grahame Fuller from EV Church about how to hand on responsibilities without ‘dumping and running’.

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Here's the all-important 25% discount code for the Building Teams course at the Church In A Box Marketplace. Just enter BTTOT025 when you reach the payment window.

The Coaching & Delegation course with Peter Mayrick, on Church In A Box Online

The Building Teams course with a host of ministry experts on Church In A Box Online

Building Leaders: Blueprints for Developing Leadership at Every Level of Your Church, by Aubrey Malphurs and Will Mancini

The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey, by Ken Blanchard

And to help us solve those conundrums, we’ve invited Cathie Heard, one of Reach Australia's Directors of Coaching, to sort it all out for us - or at least, give us the one thing we should be keeping our eye on.

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- Building Leaders: Blueprints for Developing Leadership at Every Level of Your Church, by Aubrey Malphurs and Will Mancini

- The 5 Leadership Questions Podcast from Lifeways Leadership, presented by Todd Adkins, Eric Geiger, and Daniel Im

This week on ‘The One Thing’, we’re going to look at the Life-Cycle of the Team - how they start out, the stages they’re likely to move through, and what you have to be ready for, before they really get going.

To help us with that, we’ve got a real team guru to join us at the microphone - EV Church’s Ministry Pastor, Rhett Harris. He’s had a huge amount to do with founding, fomenting and finalising teams over the years … and he’s here to share his hard-won lessons, plus THE ONE THING we need to know about our own teams.

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The Building Teams course on Church In A Box Online.  (Discount/Promo code: BTTOT025)

An article explaining The Tuckman Stages of Group Development, supplied by the ToolsHero website

Also, a Salvation Army hand-out PDF showing the Tuckman stages as a flow chart, and graphed for easy understanding, for use with your teams

Google’s Re:Work site on what makes for a great team

There were far too many questions left unanswered, so… Following on from Episode 18, Matt Varcoe from Grace City Church returns to talk about strategies for contacting and preaching to people who identify as having ‘No Religion’.

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Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus, by Mack Stiles

Apologetics Canada

Grace City’s Conversations That Matter resources

Evangelism in a Skeptical World: How to Make the Unbelievable News about Jesus More Believable, by Sam Chan