“Often when we think of church planting,” says Philip, “we think of planting worship services, and we think that once we have planted a worship service, we have planted a church. This is just stupid from a theological point of… — Jesse C Middendorf Copy Share Image
“Embracing Failure WE NEED TO FAIL. Churches need to fail more. Leaders need to fail more. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has, since the 1990s, been hosting what he calls failure parties for scrapped research projects. 1 Edgy design company 5Crowd has a failure party every month—complete with failure high-fives and often wrapping up with a celebratory failure cake! 2 When… — Jesse C Middendorf Copy Share
“Finances are more likely to follow the mission than to lead it.” — Jesse C Middendorf Copy Share Image
“Often when we think of church planting,” says Philip, “we think of planting worship services, and we think that once we have planted a… — Jesse C Middendorf Copy Share Image
“Sit with this painful comparison for a moment. In a predominantly Muslim country, a brand-new church pioneered a kingdom work that saw thousands of… — Jesse C Middendorf Copy Share Image
“Up to this point, Philip hadn’t actually heard much about the kingdom. Even though he had studied theology for four years and listened to… — Jesse C Middendorf Copy Share Image
