Yesterday I attended the Launch Seminar with Nelson Searcy & Kerrick Thomas that was held here in Baltimore. The seminar is based on the book of the same name and is all about how to launch a new church. Here were some great points from the day:
- The call to ministry is the call to prepare
- Launch large, launch quickly, and launch from the outside in
- Four calls of a church planter:
- My call to start a church
- My spouse's call to start a church
- Our call to a specific place to start a church
- Our call to reach a specific people
- Generally, you will reach people who are younger than you (the average age of the people on stage will be close to the average age of the church)
- You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with
- People say no to what's confusing
Some of those lines are directly from Nelson or Kerrick and others were borrowed from others. It was a great seminar with a lot of helpful content. Check out David Jackson's live blog of the day for a lot more detail.
