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Multi-Site Church: A Strategy for Church Planting

At Conversatio Morum, we like statistics. Mainly because the numbers from them can help us see, in a general sense, where the culture is at and where it’s going. Knowing this is the case, they are also helpful when starting out as a church planter. The rule at this point is that a new church plant has a 68% success rate. This is actually encouraging, considering the previous trend was a 20% success rate. As a church planter, knowing the challenges and struggles inherent with starting something new, these statistics don’t surprise me. Continue reading “Multi-Site Church: A Strategy for Church Planting”

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Church Web Strategy – Part 5

OK, so this is the final installment in our Church Web Strategy Series for now. Obviously, with the fast paced advancement of technology, in a year of two this will need to be appended but these 5 posts are intended to be a good primer to get you started. If you’d like to view them all together you can do that here. These are some lessons we’ve learned regarding using social media over the last few years. Continue reading “Church Web Strategy – Part 5”

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Church Web Strategy – Part 4

This is the 4th post on Church Web Strategy here at Conversatio Morum. When it comes to Missiology, technology (specifically web technology) is one of your biggest assets. If you aren’t sure where to start you can read the previous 3 posts here, here, and here.

This post is dedicated to social media. Social Media is a great way to increase traffic to your site and to increase your page rank. This can also increase visibility of your church through means apart from your web site. The four we are going to examine today are Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and YouVersion. Continue reading “Church Web Strategy – Part 4”

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Don’t Complain To Me

Hey folks, I was going to post something on Technology and Theology, but I’m taking a break for this week from the web strategy series to address something more specific to mission and theology. We’ll, hopefully, jump back to the series with web strategy next week.

Every church has them, they’re noisy, loud, make a mess, and generally just have to be watched all the time. No, I’m not talking about babies although these things are true for them too. (I mean, have you seen what a 6 month old can do while left alone? It’s amazing the amount of destructive energy they have. Now if only we could harness that for good…….ok that’s a rabbit trail for another day.) What I’m actually talking about is Continue reading “Don’t Complain To Me”

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Church Web Strategy – Part 3

This is the third in a series of posts on church web strategy. You can find the previous posts here and here. You will also want to check out the guest post by Bryan Logan here. This post is dedicated more to the actual implementation and less to the why behind the implementation.

There are tons of options for how to set up a church site out there. At the church where i’m on staff, we have Continue reading “Church Web Strategy – Part 3”

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Efficiency is Part of Your Mission

I juggle a lot of priorities.  Or at least I feel that is true.  I work for a fast growing company, I am a pastor of a fast growing ministry, and I have a side project…or 5. Conversatio Morum is one of those projects, and I must admit, it’s probably the least cared for. With so many priorities I find that they are constantly shifting, in terms of need for attention, depending on the time of day and what is occurring during that day.Now some of you at this point are saying, “Hold on, I thought this post was about productivity.” Well it is, Continue reading “Efficiency is Part of Your Mission”

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Catalyst Dallas: Perry Noble – Healthy Leaders Needed in Order to Lead Right Now

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  1. For some of us are in the middle of a situation that we’ve never planned
    1. Ministry isn’t going quite how we planned it.
    2. We’re a little overwhelmed.
  2. Sometimes things don’t go the way we plan.
  3. 4 questions to ask if things aren’t going quite the way you planned them.
    1. What am I asking God for?
      1. We really can ask God for big things.
      2. Some of us are in troublesome situations, not because we’re stupid, but because God told us to go there.
      3. Is it all about he numbers?
        1. Yes.  It’s about the numbers of people who aren’t going to hell but are going to Heaven.
        2. “One of the problems is that we’re afraid to ask God for something big, because it might bother Him. God is not bothered by our big request. I think God is actually bothered more, many times, by our small faith.”                  -Perry Noble
    2. What am I willing to go through?
      1. God is asking some of you, do you want mild or wild?
      2. “The size of the vision that God is going to give us is directly in proportion to the pain that you and I are willing to endure and there are too many church leaders today going God I want to follow you but I want to take up my matress, I don’t want to take up my cross.” -Perry Noble
      3. Alot of church leaders want to pray, but not many want to perspire and do anything significant, but if you’re going to follow Jesus it’s going to get wild and unpredictable.
    3. Am I seeing Him clearly?
      1. God sometimes allows us to go through harder things so that we can see him more clearly.
      2. Shadrack, Meshak, and Abednego didn’t see Jesus until they were in the middle of the furnace.
    4. What am I willing to believe?
      1. Close youre eyes, face forward, and run
        1. If you stop looking at the problem, and run toward it, it’s not as bad as you thought.
        2. In the middle of one of your biggest problems in ministry, God will still call you to take a step of faith.
      2. “Then Jesus said, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believe,   you will see the glory of God?'”  -John 11:40
      3. We spend to much time trying to get people to listen to God’s word when some of us need to just step out and take God at his word.
      4. God used their pain for progress
      5. Everything here is temporary
      6. You are a temporary container and eternity is worth it.