Baptist Church Planting
Summaries of the Questions of the Week

Return to BCP Home Page

What attitudes are important for a church planter?

 Summary Building Advice 

What advice would you offer a church planter for
before he builds and what resource would you suggest
he look to for help?

 Summary Church Planting by ethnicity or culture 

Should I seek to plant a Baptist church which is
distinguished by their ethnic identity or should
my church be a melting pots of every culture?

 Summary Church Finances 

What about church finances?  What have you learned
about church finances that you would like to pass
along to a church planter?

 Summary Confronting People About Their Baptism 

How do you confront and teach people who want to join
that their immersion in another church (not Baptist)
is not acceptable and that they must be baptized in
order to join?

 Summary The Covenant, Constitution, Articles of Faith, & By-laws 

How important are these instruments for the church planter?

 Summary Definition of Home Missions 

What is your (or others) definition of "home missions"?
Could someone give some examples?  Are they missionaries
to cultural groups found within the borders of the USA,
or are they just church planters?

 Summary Discipleship and Followship 

How do you get people to follow and be faithful after they
have been saved and baptized?  Discipleship?
Is it lessons, love, committment?

 Summary If I Could Do it all over I would 

If I could do it all over again
I would spend less time ________________ ,
and more time ______________________.

 Summary Encouraging Your Wife 

What is the one thing that you did (or wished you did) to
encourage you wife the most in the beginning of your
ministry or church plant?

 Summary How to Follow-up on Visitors and Delinquents 

How do YOU contact and encourage delinquents (Christians not in Church)?
How do YOU handle follow-up on visitors and prospects?

 Summary Getting Too Close To Your Flock 

How does the church planter balance being friendly without
creating problems by becoming to close to others?

 Summary Getting organized 

How can a church planter (or any busy pastor for that matter)
better balance the time demands on his life?
What are some things you have learned that you wished you had
learned when you were starting or what has been a blessing
for you in balancing the demands that are placed on a
pastor, husband, father, friend?

 Summary Going full-time 

When is the right time to go full-time if you are bi-vocational?

 Summary Incorporation 

Should a church planter incorporate the church, if so when?

 Summary Marriage Counseling Policies 

What type of policy have you set regarding counseling couples that want to
be married by you?

When you do pre-marital counseling, if you use materials such as books or
manuals, please list them and where we might be able to get them.

 Summary Music Enhancement 

How can the average church planter enhance his music service?  (Please list
details about resources if you mention them and whether or not you have
used them.)

 Summary Nursery Organization 

How do you begin, staff, build and maintain an effective NURSERY?  If you
can hold back the tears, please respond to this question !!

 Summary One thing discourages a church planter the most 

What is the one thing that threatens (or discourages) the 
church planter in his first year of planting a church and what can be 
done about it?

 Summary Organization 

This is a special summary of the gleanings from posts that
centered around the Organization Service.  I was thrilled with the responses
and hope that the information is useful to all.

 Summary Personal Finances 

What financial advice or counsel would you offer a church planter in the
area of:  Debt?  Income?  Savings?

 Summary Planning Staying Motivated 

The old cliche goes "Plan your work, then work your plan".  In the area of
Baptist Church planting how do I plan the work of starting a church, then
how do I stay motivated to continue working it?

 Summary Protecting Our Family 

What advice would you offer the church planter to prepare and protect his
family in the ministry?

 Summary Purity in the Church Plant 

What problems should the church planter beware of 
in starting a new church and keeping it pure?

 Summary Selecting an Area 

1)  Should there be peer influence involved in selecting the location for a
church plant?  

2) Should there be at least some input among the local preachers regarding
where church plants should be?

 Summary The Sending Church 

What are the "key" responsibilities that a sending church should implement
in support of the church planter?  What are some things that a supporting
(but not sending church) can do to assist the church planter?

 Summary Supporting Missions 

When should the new church planter begin to support missions in his new work
and Why?

 Summary Temptations in the Ministry 

What temptations are peculiar to the ministry?

 Summary The Invitation 

How have you learned best to conduct an invitation?

 Summary When to Quit 

 When should a church planter quit?

 Summary When & Where to Meet 

How often should a church planter begin to meet?
Where should the church planter meet at first?

 Summary Where to Begin 

What are the basics?  Where do you begin in starting a
church?

 Summary Why Call it a Baptist? 

Why call it a Baptist Church?  Wouldn't Bible Church be less intimidating?

=================================

Pastor Harry Shelton Cole Moderator bcp@baptistchurchplanting.com >:-o