Comments on: Throwing money at church planting http://www.steveaddison.net/2006/06/29/throwing-money-at-church-planting.html Steve Addison's blog about movements for the renewal and expansion of the church. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:36:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Rick Diefenderfer http://www.steveaddison.net/2006/06/29/throwing-money-at-church-planting.html#comment-8522 Rick Diefenderfer Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:43:15 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/2007/06/26/throwing-money-at-church-planting.html#comment-8522 Announcing the release of the second printing of my book, 'Creating Christian Communities - The Structure & Strategy of a Simple Cell-Based Church System'; ISBN: 1-59196-171-8. You may read what others are saying about this book by clicking (or cut-n-paste) the following link... http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/CelebratedMinistries/page8.html Announcing the release of the second printing of my book, ‘Creating Christian Communities – The Structure & Strategy of a Simple Cell-Based Church System’; ISBN: 1-59196-171-8.

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]]> By: Steve http://www.steveaddison.net/2006/06/29/throwing-money-at-church-planting.html#comment-1731 Steve Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:34:44 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/2007/06/26/throwing-money-at-church-planting.html#comment-1731 Dong, planters do need to feed their family and fund their ministry. I'm suggesting you can't have a dynamic church planting movement unless it is sustainable financially. I believe church planters should take responsibility to raising the funds from a variety of sources including their sending church/es. Ultimately the resources are in the harvest. And yes, I have been a church planter. In fact I still raise my financial support and have been doing it for most of the last 30 years or so. But I can always learn from what's happening in the field. I'd love to hear about any funding models out there that are helping to fuel the multiplication of healthy churches. Dong, planters do need to feed their family and fund their ministry. I’m suggesting you can’t have a dynamic church planting movement unless it is sustainable financially. I believe church planters should take responsibility to raising the funds from a variety of sources including their sending church/es. Ultimately the resources are in the harvest. And yes, I have been a church planter. In fact I still raise my financial support and have been doing it for most of the last 30 years or so.

But I can always learn from what’s happening in the field. I’d love to hear about any funding models out there that are helping to fuel the multiplication of healthy churches.

]]> By: dong balili http://www.steveaddison.net/2006/06/29/throwing-money-at-church-planting.html#comment-1700 dong balili Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:11:30 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/2007/06/26/throwing-money-at-church-planting.html#comment-1700 although there is some truth to your assesment that investing money to church planting is really a risky proposition and it is like "throwing your money", i beg to disagree with you that church planters must not be given suffecient funds to do their ministry.I am a church planter, and have planted 4 churches myself and have helped a dozen other church plants through our church, and one critical factor in any single church plant is the amount of support the church planter and his family is recieving to do the work and to feed his family.I wonder if you have planted a church yourself because i'm apalled by your lack of tact and sensitivity towards churc planters, like me. In my almost twenty years of doing church planting, money is always a factor in its succsess and failures.Furthermore, it is harder to find church planters than stationary pastors because church planting is not easy job, and now, you are telling the church to withdraw the needed support for them? although there is some truth to your assesment that investing money to church planting is really a risky proposition and it is like “throwing your money”, i beg to disagree with you that church planters must not be given suffecient funds to do their ministry.I am a church planter, and have planted 4 churches myself and have helped a dozen other church plants through our church, and one critical factor in any single church plant is the amount of support the church planter and his family is recieving to do the work and to feed his family.I wonder if you have planted a church yourself because i’m apalled by your lack of tact and sensitivity towards churc planters, like me. In my almost twenty years of doing church planting, money is always a factor in its succsess and failures.Furthermore, it is harder to find church planters than stationary pastors because church planting is not easy job, and now, you are telling the church to withdraw the needed support for them?

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