What happens when faith defies logic? In this powerful personal story, Tim O'Neill shares how obedience to God’s call - despite limited resources, experience, or support - led to lasting impact and the birth of Tailrace Community Church. This article is a reminder that while strategy and wisdom matter, there must always be space for the God Factor - the
Launching a new church plant will generally be an exciting, adrenalin filled, faith inspired time. If God has called you to plant, and you know that your area needs more vibrant, soul winning, disciple making churches, what could go wrong?
A Shift In Focus Is Required. Recent trends in relation to the future of the church in Australia are far from positive with National Christian Life Survey (NCLS) reporting that
“Multiplying will not happen on it’s own. If we aren’t choosing to make it happen, it’s probably not happening” (J. D. Greear in the Forward to “Hero Maker, Five Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders” by Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird) I’ve come to believe that a true Kingdom vision for a church will involve multiplication rather than just
The two big items that most churches have as their primary KPI’s are, you guessed it, attendance and income, people and dollars. I’m not saying that these aren’t important. They are important in managing your church and should likely be part of it’s dashboard reporting but they don’t tell the story about how successful the church is at achieving it’s
We can teach, introduce practices and implore the people in our church to become disciple makers, but unless we shape the culture of the church to be a disciple making culture, it’s not going to happen.
Elevate the impact of every gathering by defining clear purposes for your church’s relational spaces. This article explores how intentional practices - such as guided discussion questions during weekend services and the Discovery Bible Story method in small groups - transform mere attendance into genuine disciple‑making. Learn to articulate the “why” behind each space and implement tools that foster multiplication.
There are many simple disciple making practices or tools that can be used and that can help shape culture and increase disciple making effectiveness in your church.
We need more leaders and church planters. That was the clear message that we received from the Survey of Denominational Leaders that Exponential Australia conducted in 2024. When asked “What are the biggest obstacles you face in relation to planting more churches?” nearly all the leaders responded that they didn’t have the leaders to plant more churches. They responded that
