{"id":1394,"date":"2006-08-07T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2006-08-07T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T16:53:00","slug":"21-tips-for-church-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/21-tips-for-church-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Tips for Church Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Lamb, a pastor in Georgia, has made a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/garylamb.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/2-year-thoughts.html\">21 things<\/A> he&#8217;s learned over the last 2 years with his church plant.<br \/>\nGreat thoughts and pointers&#8230;<br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/lessons_from_a.html\">CMS<\/A> for the link.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1.) If you truly believe in your vision then 99% of decisions are already decided. Saves you a lot of trouble.<br \/>\n2.) God will send scaffolding. You need scaffolding to build a house but once it is built the scaffolding is gone. God sent us some GREAT and GODLY people who were scaffolding. I hated to see them leave but I now realize God sent them for a time and for a purpose.<br \/>\n3.) You CAN build a church without a building. Everyone told me you couldn&#8217;t in this area but, God has done it here. I have really kicked up our land search lately just to be prepared, but lack of a building will never be an excuse for us not growing.<br \/>\n4.) You can lead your people by doing life WITH them instead of being ABOVE them.<br \/>\n5.) People want a pastor who is the same Monday-Saturday as he is on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Lamb, a pastor in Georgia, has made a list of 21 things he&#8217;s learned over the last 2 years with his church plant. Great thoughts and pointers&#8230; Thanks to CMS for the link. 1.) If you truly believe in your vision then 99% of decisions are already decided. Saves you a lot of trouble. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/21-tips-for-church-plants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">21 Tips for Church Plants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-mu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}