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If you’re a pastor who loves preaching and loves people and loves the lost, there are different ways that you can start new churches. There’s not one-size-fits-all”

If you’re a pastor who loves preaching and loves people and loves the lost, there are different ways that you can start new churches. There’s not one-size-fits-all”

In this new mini-series, Derek and Scott lay out different models of church planting. There are many paths to multiplication and planting.

In this new mini-series, Derek and Scott lay out different models of church planting. There are many paths to multiplication and planting.

Every church is changing right now. Your church is changing right now. This extended episode unpacks the process of leading change in a positive way, based off Kotter’s 8 step change management framework.

Now's the time to plan your church's evangelistic strategy for the back half of this year, and the start of next year. Dave Jensen lays out his key elements of a strong evangelistic rhythm, his views on 1-1 evangelism and lots of encouraging stories.

Sam discusses front loading Sunday services, implied audiences, increased eye to the outsider, shorter/longer sermons and improved leveraging of visual media.

Sam Chan from CityBibleForum discusses emotional entry points, asking the second question and the re-consideration of the Western storyline.

Part 2 of Auckland Ev's Lead Pastor, Rowan Hilsden joins the podcast today to talk about his church's experience of change and adjustment through COVID.

Auckland Ev's Lead Pastor, Rowan Hilsden joins the podcast today to talk about his church's experience of change and adjustment through COVID.

Cathie Heard discusses her decision making process about busyness as Australia begins to reopen.

Biblical principles behind restarting your church's teams. Special guest Scott Curtis from Hunter Bible Church, Newcastle.

How are you dealing with church members’ reluctance to rejoin teams? Will you shut down or continue the newly formed livestream or care teams? How will you bring back the teams that have had to pause for COVID? What are your practical time frames?

How much disagreement should a meeting have? What are the common mistakes made by meeting facilitators? What adjustments will help your online meetings? Michael Lin from Oilstone offers his approach to running better meetings.

Rory Shiner and Murray Campbell explain how they’re slowly beginning to transition their churches back to physical gatherings, but the highlight of this episode is Derek Hanna’s relaunch buzz-words bingo board.

Murray Campbell (Melbourne) reflects on 7 possible church trends emerging from COVID-19.

What are the theological, strategic and circumstance-specific questions to address as you begin to plot your church’s return?

It's pretty clear right now that online training is more important than it's ever been. But let's face it - even when meetings are legal it's hard to get most people to show up. But whether it's now when we can't meet physically, or when isolation begins to lift and we can, we want to be equipping disciples to make disciples, and online training can be a huge part of that.

Lead pastor Adam Ch’ng reflects on why they don’t upload their services online after Sunday and the specific adjustments they’ve made to their zoom rooms.

What do pastors wish they’d done differently in the past 2 months? Paul Webb (lead pastor at Chester Hill Anglican Church) graciously shares 3 areas which he is now changing.

Adjust your expectations for this season. Set yourself up for a great second half of 2020 by caring for yourself now. If you work in a church or ministry, you're likely motivated to work hard for a great cause, and so this season of limitations can be incredibly frustrating.

How does Covid affect church staff meetings? How will you pivot your quarterly offsite? Should you have a daily staff check-ins? What difference does work-from-home make to your weekly church staff meeting? Featuring a guest appearance from Stuart Starr at NewLife Anglican Church.

How can your church love singles during this season? Particularly, what does it mean for church to be a family right now? Dani Treweek from Single Minded Conference joins Scott Sanders and Derek Hanna.

Luther Symons leads a quickly growing church plant in South West Sydney. Listen in on his chat with Scott Sanders and Derek Hanna about how their church is pivoting their mission strategy in this season.

What will it take to see conversions in your church during Covid? Now is the time to create an evangelism plan for the next 6 months. Dave Jensen's new ministry grid course (filmed while in lockdown) explains how to increase your church's contact, connections and conversions during Covid. In this week's episode Scott and Derek expand on Dave's course.