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Helping you start healthy, vital and viable faith communities
Jim Griffith - Coordinator of Church Planting Services
Jim is one of the premier church planting specialist in the country. He has trained thousands of church planters and coached hundreds of church plants. He is uniquely qualified to help you create a healthy church planting system within your judicatory, build your in-house coaching capacity, train planters and assessors and connect you with great coaches across the country. To learn more about Jim, click here.
The Top Ten Reasons Church Plants Fail
Starting a new church represents a significant investment of time, energy and resources. Most new church starts don't survive and become financially viable. There are some common themes which are found in the review of church plants that did not make it. Below is a summary of an article by Jim Griffith and Don Nations about the ten most common reasons church plants fail.
- Lack of a clear definition of "success" and a clear exit strategy
- Premature birth (starting public worship too quickly)
- Mismatch between the planter and the community/context/target audience
- Insufficient assessment (of the planter and the planting context)
- Lack of training and coaching
- Putting all of your eggs in one basket (depending on one big advertising campaign or event)
- Too much overhead too fast
- The inability or unwillingness to recruit new people
- Lack of focus and ignoring the pressing priorities
- Inebriation (being drunk on your vision)
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