Episode 420: A Dual Approach to Church Multiplication

In Episode 420 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd along with Noel Heikkinen discusses what it looks like for a church to approach multiplication through both multisite and church planting.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

  • How to determine what location should be a multisite venue and what location should be a church plant
  • Why doing more of the same isn’t always a bad thing

Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

  • “We knew that we were going to plateau in both attendance and giving for a season as we examined ourselves to make sure we were healthy.” – @noeljesse
  • “If same is life-changing, let’s have a lot more of that.” – @noeljesse
  • “We are both a ‘come and see’ and a ‘go and tell’ church.” – @noeljesse
  • “We are trying to have our people spend more time outside our church than inside our church.” – @noeljesse
  • “We’ve been planting about a church internally every 2-3 years and we want to get to a point where we are planting 1-3 every year.” – @noeljesse
  • “We have geographic bounds on our venues.” – @noeljesse
  • “We want to call the church plants our plants if we are the majority stakeholder.” – @noeljesse

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This Episode’s Sponsor: You’ve probably heard about the movie OVERCOMER. But you may not know there are a few books and Bible studies inspired by the film. One is called Defined by Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick, which is a book and Bible study based on insights from the Book of Ephesians. You can find these books and Bible studies at Lifeway.com/Overcomer.


Published September 10, 2019

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