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3 questions to ask when measuring the success of your ministry

By Lee Kemp As a pastor, you wouldn’t tell members of your church to compare themselves to someone else in … More

discipleship, identity, pressure, results

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Aye! The YOUNG LEADER’s PANEL is in 11 days! We are so pumped to hang out with you people not only at Annual Meeting but the Pastor’s Conference in Jonesboro!!! be sure to register online- link in bio.

“We’ve been saying: ‘Come to our church, come to our church’ for years and years and it hasn’t worked. The fact that we’ve brought it to campus means we’re bringing it to the students and so we’re not saying: ‘Come to me,’ we’re saying: ‘Here we are’” Hello Church, (4/4) #thechurchplantingstories

“What we’re doing in our model wasn’t broken, but we were reaching the same number of students every year. It’s just that Tech continues to grow but the number of students we’re reaching has stayed about the same. What we had to admit was, ‘Hey we’re reaching the same kind of students with the same model, if we want to reach more students- which has to be the goal- then we need to consider the idea of another paradigm.’ Yes we do see some students get saved and come to know Jesus but in general we aren’t reaching students who come to campus who have no experience with church. We aren’t reaching students who aren’t sure there is a God or skeptical about the Bible. I think we had to admit that those kinds of students are better reached right in the heart of campus and it’s going to be other students reaching them. Asking them to drive, even for us- we’re a mile away- asking a student to get in a car and go to a foreign place called church that’s a hurdle for a kid who didn’t grow up happily engaged in a local church. It’s a hindrance and I think we had to admit, ‘Hey let’s break down every barrier we can between them and the Gospel and let’s see what happens.’” Greg Sykes, First Baptist Russellville Pastor (3/4) #thechurchplantingstories

hey!! Is the 2018 Annual Meeting & Pastor’s Conference on your calendar?? October 22-24 is fast approaching so get ready to head to Central Baptist Church in Jonesboro and visit the link in our bio for all the info. #ABSC18

“There was a student I talked to who was unsure about the Gospel. He was 70% sure he was going to heaven. So we had this conversation, he comes to the realization that he does know Jesus but that there were things in his life that were making him doubt it. We got the clear, we made sure he got the Gospel. You could tell God really opened up his eyes to salvation being a gift. So I asked him, ‘Hey do you go to church anywhere?’ And he said, ‘No I don’t.’ Then I asked him, ‘Well are you here on the weekends?’ Which I expected no because it’s still a culture where a lot of students leave on the weekend but then he surprised me and said, ‘I’m here every weekend.’ I told him we were about to launch this Hello Church and he should come and he said, ‘I would love that.’ I think that speaks to a large pocket of the majority of this campus- who are absolutely disconnected. It speaks that they are eager to do something and connect with something like this” Justin Myrick, Hello Church Co-Pastor (2/4) #thechurchplantingstories

“Statistics show that 7 out of 10 college students who grew up in church, when they get to college will say goodbye to church so that’s why we’re calling it ‘Hello Church.’ We are about the unreached, unengaged and underserved. We want students to go from being far away from Christ to being missionaries and church planters and pastors and church members. We’re all about the gospel. We want people to get the gospel, we want people to get the gospel out and we want them to get going.” Brad Branham, Hello Church Co-Pastor (1/4) #thechurchplantingstories

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