2. NEXTGEN
Church Plants Five Lessons Learned
Church Plants

3. A Little Bit of History

4. 1. Your Roots Will Be Exposed.

5. Rooted
• ...As the branch cannot
bear fruit of itself, unless
it abides in the vine,
neither can you, , unless
you abide in me...he who
abides in me and I in him
bears much fruits.
John 15:4-5, 9

6. We face death
• Death by Burnout (1500
pastors monthly)
• Death by Moral Failure (1500)
• Death by Irrelevance
surrounding culture
• Death byDivision within

7. Who you are...
• We set young leaders up for
a fall if we encourage them
to envision what they can do
before they consider the
kind of person that they
should be
~Ruth Haley Barton

8. 4 deadly sins
• The Sin of Comparison = Envy
• The Sin of Performance = Self
Reliance
• The Sin of Overconfidence =
Foolishness
• The Sin of Entitlement = Greed

9. Character
• He who is noble plans
noble things, and on
noble things he
stands. Isaiah
32:8

10. 2. See it, Inspire and Point the way!

11. No wonder there is
chaos
• Without vision people
run wild, but one who
listens to instruction
will be happy.
Prov. 29:18

12. If it doesn’t bother you
then why bother?
• When I heard these
things, I sat down and
wept. For some days I
mourned and fasted
and prayed before the
God of heaven.
Neh. 1:4

13. It bothers you cause it
is a problem
• What’s the problem your
vision solves?
• ...“If it pleases the king and if
your servant has found favor
in his sight, let him send me
to the city in Judah where
my ancestors are buried so
that I can rebuild it.” Neh.
2:5

14. Ministry pre-sets
• Set-destination
• Set-pre-decisions
• Set-Focus

15. Vision Needs
Wheels
• What’s your strategy?
• What are the steps to get
them there?
• Think steps not
programs.

16. It’s God’s vision
• What God originates, he
orchestrates.
• You are responsible to do
what you know to do, what
you can do...
• A divine vision is limited
only by God’s potential and
resources

17. 3. You are a Culture Maker: Good or Bad.

18. Culture
• Think of an apple!
• Skin: Behaviors | What we
do.
• Flesh: Values | Why we do
what we do.
• Core: Beliefs | What we
believe.
Look before you Lead!

19. Avoid the drifts
• We have to be careful of
the drift toward insiders
and away from outsiders
• The drift toward law and
away from grace
• The drift toward
preserving rather an
advancing

20. Next Gen Churches
• It’s a missional call: The
missional church defines
itself by and organizes its
life around mission. Alan
Hirsch
• It’s a discipleship call:
Disciples who make
disciples

21. Discipleship is the
antidote
• Bystander effect
• Consumeristic effect
• Anti-Adventist effect
• Unhealthy home effect
• Wrong picture of God
effect

22. Next Gen.
Discipleship
• Conversation: From
Monologue to Dialogue
• Relationship: From
invasion to invitational
• Community: Individual to
community
• Gospel: From temporal to
eternal
Protege

23. 4. Big Eyes, Hard head and Thick Skin

24. Not if but when...
• Change means movement.
Movement means friction.
Only in the frictionless vacuum
of a non-existent abstract
world can movement or
change occur without that
abrasive friction of conflict.
~Saul
Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

25. If it’s a vision, it will
be challenged
• But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the
Arabs, the Ammonites and the
people of Ashdod heard that the
repairs to Jerusalem’s walls had
gone ahead and that the gaps
were being closed, they were
very angry. They all plotted
together to come and fight
against Jerusalem and stir up
trouble against it. But we prayed
to our God and posted a guard
day and night to meet this threat.
Neh. 4:7-9

26. Be missional or be
miserable
• People who demand the
most serve the least
• People with an “inward”
mentality cause
problems.

27. Two Responses
• Conflict avoiders: In the
name of love, peace and
harmony.
• Conflict Evokers: Bring it
on! Graceless, bold and
scary.
• ~ Protege by Steve
Saccone

28. Distractions
• Don’t waste your time
with haters
• Don’t let haters set your
agenda.

29. 5. Lead or Someone Else Will.

30. Leadership starts at
home
• Ministry is the idol of many.
• Don’t sacrifice your family at
the altar of ministry
• Our unique calling:
Husband and dad
• Everything else someone
else can do!

31. Responsibility
• What can they expect of
you
• What will you expect of
them

32. Leadership is
Communication
• Meet every 3 months to
• Re-fresh: Re-vision
• Re-Evaluate: What’s
working and what is not?
• Re-vamp: What needs to
die? What needs to
change? Create?
• Re-send: Mission

33. Lead
• Moses: 7 excuses not
to lead
• God’s answer: I AM
WITH YOU. LEAD MY
PEOPLE!