The blog of the Valley Life Network, which exists to help leaders make disciples and plant churches.valleylife.church/blog Phoenix, AZJoined January 2012
To move from simply talking about being a church planting church to becoming an actual church planting church, you must be radically and aggressively committed to developing both church planting pastors and a congregation that is prepared to be sent. They must go together.
Valley Life Churches are essentially a network of churches that choose to cooperate together. We believe that we can do more together than we can do apart. Of the things that make up our connection to each other like common vision and sharing of staff members, none are as impo...
What’s the difference between overlooking someone’s work and destroying it right in front of them? It might be less than you think. valleylife.church/blog/motivatio…
In your marriage, have you only been doing what comes easy or natural? Or just what you've seen everyone else do? Try something different. ow.ly/8kgO30iuLqq
There may be a place for affinity groups, but I have found much more joy sitting with people who are not like me, working together to serve the gospel. ow.ly/6vx530is8Dl
There is one question I feared asking because I knew the answer would reveal what we really cared about as a church. Beyond that, it reveals how your church is doing, both the good and the bad. ow.ly/tVKI30ioXRL
Evangelism and discipleship don’t just happen. But once you break through the fear and define the relationship, the conversations become much more natural and much less fearful. ow.ly/AN2s30ijioQ
When it comes to discipleship, I’ve noticed three types of “disciples.” And what you emphasize when you gather people together has a large role in what type of disciple you’re going to make. ow.ly/EF0k30igHh4
The church is the primary vehicle by which God’s Kingdom comes to earth. But if that is true, some of the ways we view church don’t make sense. ow.ly/mNFv30hKeah
The songs we sing should be dangerous. Just as people felt revolutionary when they sang along with Woody Guthrie, we sing along with the greatest revolution in history. ow.ly/U4zC30hHkrS
When I asked my daughter why she liked the defective toy so much, she answered, “I want him because he is broken just like me, Mommy.” ow.ly/HMtX30hm2F9
"For three weeks, I left church knowing she wasn’t at church, not because she refused, didn’t need Jesus, or thought poorly of me. My friend didn’t come because I didn’t ask." ow.ly/iGNR30hkq0c
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