In this episode, Daniel and Todd discuss shifts in the leadership structure when reaching the 350-500 mark.
Episode 313: Leading a Small Church in a Global Context
August 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Ed discuss pastoring a small church in a global setting
Episode 312: Developing Your Launch Team Into Leaders
August 27, 2018 by Leave a Comment
There’s a difference between leadership placement and leadership development
Episode 311: Advice for Aspiring Church Planters
August 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Are you wired to be a church planter? Daniel and Ed give advice for aspiring church planters.
Episode 310: Elevating College Students
August 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss opportunities churches have to develop college students and raise up leaders.
Episode 309: We Need Evangelistic Church Plants
August 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Ed discuss why evangelism should be the purpose of planting
Episode 308: Planting Where Healthy Churches are Scarce
August 13, 2018 by Leave a Comment
How do you cast a vision to those have never experienced a healthy church?
Episode 307: Planting from the Diaspora
August 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Ed discuss church planting after living in the Diaspora.
Episode 306: Vision & Mission
August 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
What are the best ways or practices to implement your vision and actually see your mission achieved?
Episode 304: Multisite vs Church Plants
July 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss the pros and cons of going multisite versus starting new church plants.
Episode 303: Core Groups vs Launch Teams
July 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The terminology, ‘core group’ and ‘launch team’ fundamentally mean something different.
Episode 302: Starting a Leadership Pipeline in Your Church
July 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss how to start a leadership pipeline in your church plant.
Episode 300: A Glimpse Into the Lives of Ed Stetzer, Todd Adkins, and Daniel Im
July 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel, Ed, and Todd answer questions about their personal life, share some fears they have, and give helpful advice on ministry.
Episode 299: Who to Take With You in a New Church Plant
July 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Ed discuss launching a new church plant and assessing who to take with you.
Episode 298: Resourcing Your Core Team
July 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss developing your core team in preparation for a launch.
Episode 297: The Church Growth Flywheel with Rich Birch
July 5, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel interviews author and church planter, Rich Birch, about multisite and church growth.
Episode 296: Moving into a Permanent Facility
July 2, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss moving into a permanent location and the benefits of two services.
Episode 295: Failed Church Plants
June 28, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Ed discuss church plant failures and processes to recover.
Episode 292: How Leadership Pipeline Relates to Multiplication
June 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
What does a leadership pipeline have to do with church multiplication?
Episode 291: Collaborating with Established Churches
June 14, 2018 by Leave a Comment
How do you get older churches to collaborate with your new church plant?
Episode 290: Advantages & Disadvantages to Planting in an Old Church
June 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Never look a gift horse in the mouth…Unless it’s a church building, then you always should look.
Episode 289: Introducing Change to Your Church Plant
June 7, 2018 by Leave a Comment
You can’t be with the ones you love, honey, love the one you’re with.
Episode 288: Worship Music
June 4, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Musicians are servants that help to enhance people’s worship to the Lord.
Episode 287: Rural Church Planting
May 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
What does it look like to plant in a smaller community?
Episode 286: Tools & Resources We’ve Been Using
May 28, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss different tools and resources that they have been using lately.
Episode 285: How to Help Your Spouse Be Prepared for Planting
May 24, 2018 by Leave a Comment
How can I help my wife be prepared for church planting?
Episode 284: What We’ve Been Reading & Listening To
May 21, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd talk about inspiring books and podcasts they are listening to.
Episode 283: Parachute Planting
May 17, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Ed discuss ministering to the saints while you’re in the early stages of planting your church.
Episode 282: Overcoming the Barrier of Fear
May 14, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss when to plant your first church and some of the barriers to multiplication.
Episode 281: Your First Offering
May 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Should you give away your first offering?
Episode 280: Your Call & God’s Timing
May 7, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Where should you plant your church?
Episode 279: Training a Launch Team
May 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Ed discuss developing a launch team for a missional attractional church.
Episode 278: One-On-One Meetings
April 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Time is a person’s most valuable resource, so don’t waste it.
Episode 277: Dynamics of Growing Your Church
April 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
At what point do you go from meeting in your living room to opening up your church to the public?
Episode 276: Moving from Addition to Multiplication
April 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss how to curate a leadership pipeline with limited people and resources.
Episode 275: Leadership vs Discipleship
April 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Discipleship is a long obedience in the same direction.
Episode 274: Maintaining Momentum as a Satellite Campus
April 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss navigating how to transition from a broadcast campus to a satellite campus and vice versa
Episode 273: Convert Growth & Developing Self-Feeders
April 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Ed discuss convert growth and developing a deep and abiding passion for evangelism in your church community.
Episode 272: Shared Services
April 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss shared spaces for multisite churches.
Episode 270: Dynamics of Starting a Fourth Site
April 2, 2018 by Leave a Comment
When starting your fourth campus, your strategy may change, but your vision and values should stay the same.
Episode 269: Starting a New Church After a Split
March 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment
If you got pushed out of your last church, and you decided to start another church in the same community, that’s not church planting. That’s a church split.
Episode 268: Maturing on Mission
March 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Discipleship is all about development as you go.
Episode 266: Full-time vs. Part-time Bivocational
March 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd debate whether going full-time or part-time bivocational is more beneficial to your church.
Episode 265: Missional Discipleship
March 15, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In a world that is balkanizing, what does it look like to have a universal mission?
Episode 264: Contextualizing in an Urban Setting
March 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Contextualization begins with understanding the culture and desperately wanting to reach it with the gospel.
Episode 263: Bivocational Church Planting
March 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment
What should your focus be when starting off as a bivocational church planter?
Episode 262: Changing the Dialogue About Bivocational Ministry
March 5, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Bivocational ministry is not about doing two things poorly. It’s about leveraging all your life into one calling.
Episode 261: Positively Engaging a Community
March 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment
You can’t really engage a community well unless you deeply love a community and its people.
Episode 260: Small Group Leader Reproduction and Development
February 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The more ownership that exists within campuses, the more effectiveness, drive, and passion you will see emerge.
Episode 258: Reproducing Shepherds
February 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
How do you raise up leaders to bear the load of shepherding in a plant?
Episode 257: Financial Support Options for Church Plants
February 15, 2018 by Leave a Comment
What are the best financial support options for funding a new church plant?
Episode 256: Direction vs Destination
February 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Every church needs a pipeline and every person needs a pathway.
Episode 255: Tim Keller on The Vanishing Neighbor & Polarization
February 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In cities today, people are dividing more often than uniting and coming together.
Episode 254: Relocating to a Different Venue
February 5, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss the best venues for portable churches to experience optimal growth.
Episode 253: Gentrification & Metropolitanization
February 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In this episode, Tim Keller’s talks about the urban city trends of gentrification & metropolitanization.
Episode 252: Developing a Culture of Service
January 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment
How do you help drive mission into the DNA of your church?
Episode 251: Reurbanization
January 25, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Reurbanization calls for an increase of church plants within cities.
Episode 250: Funding Multisite
January 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment
What does it cost to go multisite?
Episode 249: When to Start Planting Again
January 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
You don’t want to lose the forward momentum of church planting.
Episode 248: Hard Talk in Bivocational Ministry
January 15, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Hardships are necessary for God to teach you how to live like Him.
Episode 247: Why Bivocational Ministry?
January 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Scott McConnell shares some facts about bivocational ministry and the implications it has on the future of church planting.
Episode 246: Obstacles and Roadblocks of Replanting
January 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Sometimes you have to let a church die and let something new be birthed.
Episode 245: Time Management for Bivocational Pastors
January 4, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In this excerpt, Hugh Halter shares some practical life lessons and strategies for managing time when juggling work, church, and family.
Episode 244: Moving to a New City
January 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment
How do you make friends when you’re the new kid on the block?
Episode 243: Finding the Right Venue
December 28, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What are the best venue options for new church plants?
Episode 242: Engaging with Visitors and Follow-Up
December 25, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you make visitors feel welcome and like they belong?
Episode 241: Problematic Volunteers
December 21, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd discuss the, sometimes painful, task of navigating problematic volunteers.
Episode 240: Missional Community Through Small Groups
December 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Why do weekly worship services matter?
Episode 237: Developing a Core Team
December 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
People make time for what matters to them.
Episode 236: Rural Church Planting
December 4, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What does church growth and breaking barriers look like in a rural context?
Episode 235: Benefits of Being Portable
November 30, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Why should your next multisite campus be portable?
Episode 234: Rental Fatigue
November 27, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Life is full of surprises…and so is church planting.
Episode 233: Planting a Portable Campus
November 23, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you find the best location for a portable church?
Episode 232: Planting with a Multigenerational Approach
November 20, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you encourage age diversity in your new campus?
Episode 231: Reproducing Services
November 16, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What systems need to be in place in order to reproduce 5-6 services at one site?
Episode 230: Community Outreach
November 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Is door-to-door and street park evangelism more effective than relational evangelism?
Episode 229: Campus Relocation
November 9, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you get church members on board with relocating your campus?
Episode 228: What to Look for in a Facility
November 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What kinds of things should you look for in a facility?
Episode 227: Getting Churches to Partner Financially
November 2, 2017 by Leave a Comment
You have people, leaders, and a vision. What about finances?
Episode 226: Building a Lifespan Into a Church
October 30, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Should church plants have expiration dates?
Episode 225: Reaching Students as a Church Plant
October 26, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Learn how to reach Generation Z as a church plant.
Episode 224: Monthly Preview Services
October 23, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What’s an optimal schedule for preview services?
Episode 223: Scalability
October 19, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Scalable structure, scalable systems, and scalable ministry processes.
Episode 222: Ordination & Denominational Traditions
October 16, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Can you plant a church without being ordained?
Episode 221: Same Church, Different Gatherings
October 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Should you have separate gathering spaces to reach your community in different ways?
Episode 220: Mother-Daughter Church Plants
October 9, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What does a healthy relationship between a mother-daughter church plant look like?
Episode 218: Church Revitalization
October 2, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Learn how to introduce change to your church.
Episode 217: Am I too old to Plant a Church?
September 28, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How old is too old to be a church planter?
Episode 216: Church Planting Assessments
September 25, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How important are church planting assessments?
Episode 215: Leadership Pipeline (5LQ Special)
September 21, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Why should you develop a leadership pipeline in your church?
Episode 214: Person of Peace
September 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you become a leader in your community and get people connected?
Episode 213: Spiritual Covering
September 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Why does spiritual accountability matter for a church planter?
Episode 212: Reaching the Unchurched
September 11, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What does it look like to plant a church in a non-Christian society?
Episode 211: Leadership Pipeline & Discipleship Pathway
September 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What is the connection between a Leadership Pipeline and a Discipleship Pathway?
Episode 210: Preventing Burnout for Volunteers
September 4, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you prevent burnout for volunteers?
Episode 209: Small Group Training
August 31, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How often should you meet to train your small group leaders?
Episode 208: When to Plant Another Church
August 28, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you know when it is time to plant another church?
Episode 207: Parking, Structure, & Service Times
August 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you work through obstacles such as parking and the flow of service when planting a new church?
Episode 205: Church Planting in Australia
August 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What can we learn from the Australian church planting scene?
Episode 204: Long Distance Discipleship
August 14, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you disciple your team from a distance?
Episode 203: Future Themes of Church Planting
August 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What are some future themes to expect in church planting?
Episode 202: The First 100 Days
August 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What should your focus be in the first 100 days of your new church plant?
Episode 201: Small Groups that Multiply
August 3, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you encourage multiplication amongst your small groups?
Episode 200: The Future of Church Planting & Multisite
July 31, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What’s next in church planting and multisite?
Episode 198: Planting with a Focus
July 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you plant with a focus while avoiding exclusivity?
Episode 197: Unity in Multisite Campuses
July 20, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you cultivate unity as a church when you have multiple campuses?
Episode 196: Deciding Governance
July 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Should deciding church governance be a solo or team effort?
Episode 195: Starting a Midweek Bible Study
July 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
You want to start midweek Bible Studies but don’t have enough teachers to teach. What then?
Episode 194: Second Chair Leadership
July 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What makes a good Second Chair Leader?
Episode 193: Contextualizing Multisite Campuses
July 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What would it look like if every campus and church plant you start has a Kingdom-first mindset?
Episode 192: Outreach Ideas for Children
July 3, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What are some creative ways to evangelize to children?
Episode 191: Protecting Church Members from Burnout
June 29, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you protect your church members from getting burnt out?
Episode 190: Relaunching an Existing Church
June 26, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Is relaunching an existing church plant a good idea?
Episode 189: Leadership & Multiethnic Ministry
June 22, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you keep your congregation unified when there is a language barrier?
Episode 188: Co-Planting
June 19, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Is two better than one when it comes to church planters?
Episode 187: Finding a Location
June 15, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What should you look for in a permanent location?
Episode 186: Unhealthy Churches
June 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What defines an unhealthy church and how do you know when it’s time to leave?
Episode 185: Training Your Core Team
June 9, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How should you train your core team?
Episode 184: Nuts and Bolts of Core Team Training
June 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Pastor Ronnie Parrott dives into the nuts and bolts of core team training.
Episode 183: Membership & Mission
June 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How does membership and mission relate to a core team?
Episode 182: Filter, Prep, Pray
June 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Ronnie Parrott continues his talk on recruiting a launch team.
Episode 181: Recruiting a Launch Team
June 5, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you recruit a solid launch team?
Episode 180: Succession (5LQ Special)
June 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
In this 5LQ Special, we talk with Mark Jobe about Succession, Leadership, and Vision.
Episode 179: Challenges of Adding a Location
May 29, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Daniel and Todd talk about leadership challenges when launching a new location.
Episode 178: Filling the Role of the Campus Pastor
May 25, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Learn about different tools to utilize when looking for a potential campus pastor.
Episode 177: Getting Organized
May 22, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Organization is not your strong suit. Do you hire an Administrative Assistant?
Episode 176: Planting Churches in Resistant Areas
May 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What methods and models should a church planter use when planting in a more resistant area?
Episode 175: Timeline, Takeovers, Team
May 15, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What timeline and tasks should you follow when launching a new campus from a previously existing church?
Episode 174: Scaling a Mega Church Leadership Model
May 11, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Learn how to transfer leadership development from a mega church model to a new church plant.
Episode 173: Starting a College Church Plant
May 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
How do you go about starting a church plant in a college area?
Episode 172: Evaluating Your Church’s Outreach
May 4, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What ways can you measure the impact your church is making?
Episode 171: Small Churches Going Multisite
May 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
At what point should a small church consider becoming a multisite campus?
Episode 170: Raising Funds Post Launch
April 27, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Your church has already launched, but you’re still in need of funds. What now?