Models of church planting

There are multiple ways to plant a church. Church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee discuss various models of church planting and how church planters can create momentum in planning by using the right model.

1:14 - Danny discusses the pioneering method of church planting and planting in a community where you have no local contacts

2:54 - Danny talks about the advantages and disadvantages of the pioneering model of church planting

4:22 - Danny talks about how a pioneer church planter can find little wins to stay motivated, and what an honest timeline for a church to start in a pioneering church planting situation would be

6:13 - Danny talks about the ratio of believers to non-believers at his church plant, and what it meant to the church's ministry

7:25 - Danny discusses ways for a pioneer church planter to make connections in a community

8:09 - Lee talks about the branching church planting method, in which a core group of people are sent out from an existing church to plant another church

9:00 - Lee talks about how his team decided who would join his church planting team, and how not everyone is cut out to join a church planting team

12:28 - Lee offers advice to a church planter using the branching model on how to guard the culture you want to create, and what could happen if you don't do that

13:33 - Lee talks about the skills and gifts that a branching church planter needs

14:45 - Danny and Lee explain the adopting model of church planting, in which a pre-existing core group wants to plant a church and brings in a church planter from the outside as a leader, and the challenges of the method

16:52 - Lee discusses the advantages of the parenting model of church planting, in which a group of churches come together to plant a church

19:00 - Danny talks about a possible negative ramification of the parenting model, and how planting churches can avoid it

20:21 - Lee and Danny talk about the missional community start model, in which a church plant begins with small groups our house churches

23:20 - Lee speaks about how multiple models can be used to honor God, reach people for Jesus and disciple believers

24:08 - Lee and Danny share the skills and gifts that would be most needed for a missional community church planter

25:11 - Lee shares the desire of church planting in the Converge movement

26:00 - Danny and Lee talk about the importance of models in the planning stage and the need to be flexible during the church planting process