If you haven’t been to see the new movie Courageous, you are missing out. It is hilarious and tragic and moving. Warning to men – I didn’t see one guy around me that didn’t cry at least once. I plan to buy it on BluRay when it comes out on video.
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Mentoring What does it mean for a church to be “mentoring”? We strive to achieve this goal through 3 means: counseling, discipleship, and leadership development. The goal of our mentoring is to develop a believer to their full potential. For those who are struggling with sin, doubts, painful life circumstances, abuse, or other difficulties, we [...]
One of our three distinctives is that we are a missional church. So what do we mean when we say “Missional.” There are two parts to the answer:our focus and our method. Missional Focus Having a missional focus means that we see our community and culture as a mission field. We have to take a [...]
Fail Forward
Posted: October 20, 2009 by carlmatice in Carl's Board, Church PlantingTags: Church Planting
I was in class today learning about leadership development. Our professor, Dr. Malphurs was encouraging us that more churches needed to be developing and sending out leaders that would plant new healthy churches. One of my classmates responded saying that the church he works at tried a church plant several years ago and it had [...]
