Articles for tag: Nexus

May 4, 2018

Planting Churches in ‘Flyover Country’

By Kelly Carr You take in the gorgeous sights—calming lake waters surrounded by verdant fields and purple mountain majesty. After a few minutes of awe, you pull down the window shade, sit back, and sleep the rest of your flight. Ah yes, many of us have experienced some of God’s greatest wonders from a bird’s-eye view only. The nickname “flyover country” came out of the camaraderie of folks who felt their heartland was overlooked by those who focused only on the coasts. But, if we’re being honest, when it comes to Restoration Movement congregations, have we adopted a similar attitude?

April 4, 2016

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Church Planting

We”ve Become Leaders in Church Planting

By Justin Horey Innovation is at the heart of new church planting. Spend any amount of time talking to the leaders of the church planting ministries in the Restoration Movement, and it quickly becomes clear this is a group that prizes newness: new places, new churches, new believers, new ideas, and new strategies. It”s not easy to say when this attitude began to take hold””perhaps in the 1980s or 1990s. Today new Christian churches are often established by organizations that profess to “do things no one else does.” Lance Hurley, executive director of Ignite Church Planting in Chicago, recalls how

June 15, 2015

Christian Standard

Church Leadership

Responding to Jim Putman

We asked three leaders to react to Jim Putman’s article describing his church’s decision to plant churches instead of developÂ multisites. By Brent Storms,Â president, The Orchard Group (www.orchardgroup.org) ONE OF THE BIGGEST FACTORSÂ in starting healthy churches is the quality of the lead planter. One of the characteristics of the best church planters is that they are great communicators. The only way to develop one”s communication gift is to be afforded frequent opportunities to speak and receive helpful feedback. I share Jim”s concern that the trend toward campuses that are video venues effectively reduces the opportunities younger leaders have to preach. That