Church for the Rest of Us Podcast

CFTROU 0015: Forming Strategic PartnershipsThis episode covers the second of four ways to do Multisite Church for the Rest of Us. Today we are joined by our good friend, Dr. Raymond Underwood, to talk about the role that strategic partnerships play in a multisite strategy. Dr. Ray is a church planter who pastored the church he planted for thirty years before entering into a strategic partnership w...

CFTROU 0014: Launch LargeToday on our Multisite Church for the Rest of Us series we start drilling down into the ways that we have gone multisite. We believe in getting a lot of hooks in the water through various church planting approaches and methods. This episode focuses on the traditional, “launch large” strategy. This is method most people think of when someone says they are going to plant a c...

CFTROU 0013: How Family Church Does MultisiteThis is part two of our series on Multisite Church for the Rest of Us. We talk about how we are doing multisite here in South Florida. There is no one-size-fits-all way to do multisite. If you look around the U.S. and other parts of the world, there is not even consensus among very biblically-centered churches. We have embraced and adopted a parish mode...

CFTROU 0012: Why MultisiteToday we start a six-part series on Multisite Church for the Rest of Us. We believe multisite is an option for churches of any size to consider. We have churches of all shapes and sizes inquiring about our multisite approach. There are a lot of models, but many people do not know where to start or they have started and now they are stuck. We delve into the five main reaso...

CFTROU 0011: My Church Needs More LeadersToday we address something we have heard pastors say over and over again, “My church needs more leaders.” There are systems and structures that your church can put in place to develop, identify, and recruit leaders at all ages and stages of life. Every church can train more leaders and take people from the pew to the plant. It only takes one – just take som...

CFTROU 0010: A Simple Way to Share the GospelOur simple gospel sharing tool is called the 3 Circles. It was created out of the need to find a way to share the gospel with unchurched and irreligious people. It is a simple, reproducible, visual, and interactive tool. The 3 Circles is a life conversation guide about God’s design, brokenness, and the gospel. We can bring our own personal story as well...

CFTROU 0009: Air War/Ground War StrategyIt’s not enough to fight the air war only; every church needs a ground war strategy. The air war is the vision trajectory of your church and it can only accomplish so much. The ground war is where churches get organized, take ground, and move forward. Every church – no matter what size – can lead an effective air war/ground war strategy. It doesn’t have to b...

CFTROU 0008: Five Free Strategies for Church Growth That Will Cost You Your Life. We find these five strategies in the book of Acts: devotion to prayer, abundant seed sowing, making disciples that make disciples, planting churches, and identifying and training new leaders. These 5 free strategies don’t cost any money, but may cost you your life. Learn how you can implement them in your church toda...

CFTROU 0007: The 1% Rule for Reaching Your CommunityToday we explain what we mean by the 1% rule of reaching your community. It means gaining perspective on your mission fields where God has placed us and owning the lostness that’s all around us. We need to develop strategies that equip the “joes” and don’t leave reaching people with the gospel of Christ to the “pros.” We will never move the needl...

CFTROU 0006: Your Church’s Name Is Killing You; Change It. Today we dive into why a church should consider a name change, how to go about making the change, and how to continue honoring the legacy that has already been established. When we made the decision to change our name from the First Baptist Church of West Pam Beach to Family Church, it was a big shift. The name of our church had been the s...

CFTROU 0005: Transitioning Your Traditional Church Part 3 – Set A TrajectoryToday we conclude our 3-part series about transitioning your traditional church by outlining how to set a trajectory for your future. If we find ourselves plowing on a rock, we need to find a way forward. We cannot always account for the dynamic environments within our churches, so any detailed plan we come up with today w...

CFTROU 0004: Transitioning Your Traditional Church Part 2 – Killing the Sacred CowsToday we dive into Part 2 of Transitioning Your Traditional Church, which addresses killing our sacred cows. In Part I, we discussed starting where you are by confronting the brutal facts and assessing reality. Every single church has sacred cows, or in our case, sacred camels, Our Family Church Lead Pastor, Christi...

CFTRO 0003: Transitioning Your Traditional Church Part 1 – Start Where You AreIn this first of three parts, we talk about how you can transition your traditional church to reach an increasingly de-churched and never churched culture. The number one priority for pastors and church leaders is to define reality and cast vision. We look at the trends we see in the landscape of churches, and how we can...

CFTROU 0002: How We Embraced a Network of Neighborhood ChurchesIn our first episode, we discussed why we abandoned the regional megachurch model and today we talk about how we embraced a network of neighborhood churches. We believe that this model is culturally relevant and makes biblical and theological sense. The book of Acts shows us how the first churches were in true partnership with each oth...

CFTROU 0001: Why We Abandoned the Regional Megachurch ModelOn this first episode of Church for the Rest of Us, Family Church Lead Pastor, Jimmy Scroggins, and Executive Pastor, Steve Wright, discuss the purpose of this podcast and their hope that it will help pastors and ministry leaders. If you’re tired of going to conferences, reading books, and listening to talks that suggest strategies which r...

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