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Church planting can be one of the most confusing and challenging vocations out there. There are a thousand reasons for something to not go as “planned” and church planting has a special ability to facilitate various types of nervous breakdowns. We don’t want that for you. Here’s a 5,000 foot look at what causes much of the pain and how to create a plan and structure to facilitate health.

One of the biggest challenges to any church plant journey is making the wise, strategic, and Jesus-honoring decisions. The hack to make better decisions more often is to think through “how” you’re making decisions and to develop a process for that. Our Decision-Making Framework has been used at both board and staff levels and while you’ll want to adjust your own version of this, this might be a helpful template.

Language creates culture and culture is, in large part, what a church planter is working on—whether they know it or not. At Anchor we have developed a lexicon that offers, on one page, the words we use and why we use them. We pull this out at staff meetings, Anchor Classes, and more. Again, not a carbon copy for all churches but a helpful template to send you in the right direction.

Bryan (Anchor’s lead pastor) is in the process of writing a book about church planting that will weave practical insight into a memoir format. Take a look at the first chapter that is, admittedly, still in draft form, for some encouragement and insight into the initial steps of church planting.