Importance of Linking Activities

As we continue our lessons on church planting I have learned today the so-called “linking activities”. This is a part of Church planting where you are trying to gather now your contacts together with other contacts to pave the way in starting a new church. In any church planting efforts, you will need at least [...]


4 Things to Pray for Church Planting Efforts

We all know that in every church activity, prayer always pray a vital role for the success of such activities. Today, I would like to give you 4 things to pray if your church is engaged in any church planting efforts.  1. Open doors – pray for more open doors that will accept you for [...]


10 Foolproof Steps In Church Planting

Church planting is not easy, yet it is not complicated to understand. If you understand the basic principles of planting churches, then it shouldn’t be that hard. However, the keys in planting churches is perseverance and dependency to God accompanied by these ten step formula.   Imparting vision to your church. Share the vision of [...]


Gospel Bracelets and Wristbands

Gospel (Christian) Bracelets Are Also Known As Salvation Bracelets and Gospel Bracelets In my article 3 Proven Biblical Tips That Improves Bible Reading, I mentioned about the Christian bracelets. They are also known as salvation bracelets and gospel bracelets. They come with different colors similar to that of the Wordless book. Just like the gospel [...]


10 Reasons Why We Need To Have Church Planting Coaching

Yesterday, I attended the orientation of Bayanihan Church Planting of the Philippine Challenge. This is an answer to my prayers to restart our church planting program. And indeed, I was deeply challenged to implement and join this effort.
“Bayanihan” is a term used by Filipinos for group work of community development. And this time, Philippine Challenge adopted the term for multiplying churches here in the Philippines. The term itself means, group work for church planting.


How to Grow Your Church

There is no pastor or Church that doesn’t want to grow in numbers. All churches want to grow, and all churches want people to be coming to church. The big question however is “how?” I have here a video that talks about the current phenomenon in growing churches. I got this video while browsing the [...]


What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable

I have seen this video in one of the websites of Organic Church people. Very funny, but there are really truths in it. Our Churches are like this and are now out of focus. Our Churches tend to attract people to come in. In contrast to what the Bible say, our churches is suppose to be emphasizing the going out and spreading the gospel.

There is nothing wrong in attracting people to come to Church. In fact, in our contemporary time, I believe that is also important that we will have a presentable Church. But to be imbalance with the emphasis of our programs and giving more weight in attracting people is getting out of focus.

The purpose of Organic Church movement is to go back to the original NT way of worship and being in the Church which I believe is good. However, still we need to be extra careful to not to fall in legalism especially if we are already doing Organic Church since the Bible did not gave us a protocol nor a step by step way of having a Church, and how to worship God. It only presented general things. Furthermore, most practices in NT Church are very applicable for them which might be totally or partially different to what we have now concerning the culture and traditions that we have.