I recently read these statistics on someone elses blog and it fired me up! – Eight churches in America close their doors every day. – Less than 20% of Americans now attend church. – The average church has shrunk to less than 90 people. – The average church member gives $756 a year! – Less [...]
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church stats
Posted by David on July 19th, 2010
Posted in Go hard!, church planting 
Tags: church, evangelism, giving, outreach, salvation, titihing 
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Posted by David on July 2nd, 2010
Here are some of the things that I am crazy enough to believe God for: 1. I am believing God for new and fresh ways to present the Gospel to people in my city. Over 65% of our population don’t attend church on a regular or have a personal relationship with God. 2. I am [...]
new church
Posted by David on June 25th, 2010
Launching a church is an incredible task, one that I do not take lightly. The responsibility to lead people into doing great things is also incredible. Doing this while having a wife, kids, working a full-time job, and going back to school is… Nevertheless, God has put His imprint on my heart for the people [...]
trading my life
Posted by David on May 10th, 2010
My friend, Dave Ferguson, asked a great question on his blog. For what are you trading your life for? This question has really stuck with me for a while. You see, for many years I thought that my life was not worth much I never thought that I would ever amount to a whole lot. [...]
God’s not through with me yet
Posted by David on April 22nd, 2010
Starting a church has been a struggle. God placed this dream in my heart over 4 years ago and sometimes it feels like I am still on square one. Until now I have come to realize that I have placed too much emphasis on things like structure, plans, and PEOPLE. I have neglected the thing [...]
double for your trouble
Posted by David on March 31st, 2010
My guy, Jason Curlee, had his church campus almost doubled in one week last week. check it out here I am blown away by the stories that I read abut all over the country on how God is doing His thing. It inspires me and it builds my faith. …double in 1 week…hmmmm….. To see [...]
join our prayer team
Posted by David on March 23rd, 2010
Launching a church is very challenging. It is definitely something that you dont want to attempt by yourself. It is good to have a like-minded group of people who are willing to come alongside you in making an impact for the Kingdom. For Soul Purpose Church, we are looking for people and churches who are [...]
10 great reasons to start a church
Posted by David on March 17th, 2010
I got this info from transformingchurch.com 1. New churches lower the age profile of the American church, increase its multiethnicity, and better position the whole church for future changes. 2. New churches provide synergistic benefits to established churches. Research show that denominations that plant many strong churches have more healthy, growing, established churches than those [...]
church update
Posted by David on February 9th, 2010
It is an awesome feeling to know that God has called you to something and you are walking in that path. God has called me to launch a church and while we are no where near the launch date, we are making some progress. We recently had a great couple join our crew and I [...]
I’m ready
Posted by David on February 5th, 2010
We had a great info meeting last weekend. There was a couple there who I am praying for them to join us. Planting a church is going to take everything that I have, and then some. There are some things that I will have to sacrifice (my family is not one of them!) This is [...]
