This video is an excerpt from Alan Hirsch’s workshop from Exponential East 2014 on the explosive growth of the early church. Don’t miss Alan in the FREE Best of Exponential Online Event on January 19th! Click here to register.
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The Becoming Five Assessment Tool is a new FREE resource from Exponential. This article explains the five different profiles of multiplication. The Assessment Tool determines which level your church fits into.
Church Cultures
A culture is a way of...
We have discovered that pastors who lead growing churches have done some specific and intentional things to get to that point. They have most often cultivated a set of skills that bring fruit. The most common set of skills that they develop are in...
Do you know whether or not your team culture is healthy? Many churches don’t, and this eventually always comes at a great price. It’s pretty common for organizations to make plans for a new year without first gaining clarity and insight...
This year Jim Tomberlin and I have the privilege of facilitating an Exponential Learning Community for eighteen large multisite churches who average more than 8,000 attendees across at least four campuses. In our first gathering in October in New...
I’ve observed something in healthy, growing churches this last year that I think is very important for church leaders. The churches experiencing the most healthy growth tended to have a discipleship approach in the form of a path. Meaning,...
Exponential has asked national leaders what they think about the upcoming Exponential East 2016 conference. These were their responses:
“If you’re passionate about church planting and church planters, Exponential is the first conference to put...
Our addition growth strategies can take our eyes off of Jesus as our zeal for “doing” things that create momentum and growth for Jesus distracts us from actually helping people “become” more like Jesus. It’s time to rethink our definition of healthy...
Culture eats strategy for Breakfast
This quote, attributed to Peter Drucker, gets to the heart of church planting. We can create strategies. We can develop plans. We begin to aim at growing to a particular number of a particular people in a...
One of the biggest challenges every leader faces is how to continue developing and growing while still getting things done and moving things forward.
With the ever-increasing demands on our time and energy, often the first thing that goes is...
If you’re a church leader, you likely have a vision for your ministry in 2016. There’s something you passionately feel your team needs to accomplish. Maybe you’d like to better minister to families. Maybe you’re hoping to start new small groups....
The emergence of church multiplication networks is a healthy trend in church multiplication. These networks confront the status quo and heighten the profile of church planting. Despite this new focus on church planting, the American Church is only...