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My Thoughts on Church Planting

Win 2 Free Tickets To Catalyst ONE DAY Chicago

By Ron Edmondson on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | 37 Comments

Congratulations! I am sending your Twitter ID’s to Catalyst and they will be in contact. Thanks so much for playing along and look me up at Catalyst One Day. If you didn’t win, I still recommend you invest in this conference. All our churches and organizations can use a momentum refresher!

Grace Community Church and Cross Point Church

By Ron Edmondson on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Thanks to Cross Point for allowing our team at Grace Community Church to learn from them. Pete Wilson and Jenni Catron have assembled a superstar group of people that love Jesus and truly desire to reach their city for Christ. Today we brought our staffs together for a joint staff retreat.

Saturday Dream Stretch: Local Church Vision

By Ron Edmondson on Saturday, March 6th, 2010 | 12 Comments

Today I have a fun dream stretch. I am curious what some of these dreams will be. At my church, Grace Community Church, we are seeing God do amazing things. This post is a result of that activity of Go

10 Questions With Leader Jenni Catron – Crosspoint Church

By Ron Edmondson on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments

I consider Jenni Catron a friend and ministry partner. Jenni serves as the Executive Director at Crosspoint Church in Nashville. The church’s proximity to our church helps me learn from their success. Jenni is a hard-working, genuine leader. I love the transparency she shares through her blog and the intentionality she brings to her ministry. I am fully convinced that much of the success of Crosspoint is due to Jenni’s leadership. You can follow Jenni on Twitter also.

4 “Easy” Steps To Delegating

By Ron Edmondson on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 | 19 Comments

Obviously, when you address the principle of letting go, which could also be called delegation, it opens a huge question for those wired as completers. The question is: HOW? How do you let go of responsibility when you are wired so heavily towards not doing so?

An Interview With Jason Roy, Building 429 & Grace Community Church

By Ron Edmondson on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 | 16 Comments

I’m sure there is a perfect definition of this, but for me worship happens when you forget about yourself and recognize more about God in that moment. You can put that in the context of a worship service, where a person recognizes that I don’t care about myself or my struggles; I just care about God, or you can put that in terms of a work situation, where a person says, “None of this matters except for me bringing glory to God.” When self disappears and the image of oneself disappears and God’s purpose, design and plan becomes the most important thing, that’s worship.

10 Questions With Leader Geoff Surratt (Seacoast Church)

By Ron Edmondson on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Geoff Surratt is part of the church famous Surratt brothers of Seacoast Church. I have had to the privilege of meeting several of them and I am always impressed. I sat in a breakout at a conference last year where Geoff spoke last year. He’s funny, witty, and smart. His latest book, Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing, is a frank and honest book that identifies the most common mistakes pastors make. You can follow Geoff on Twitter also.

Guest Post: Cheryl Edmondson (“Just” a Pastor’s wife?)

By Ron Edmondson on Saturday, February 13th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Karen on our staff has been asking Cheryl to do a guest post for the Grace Community Church website for months and she finally agreed. She chose the title “Who me – a pastor’s wife?”. Let me say that I believe one of the most important jobs in the church is that of the pastor’s wife. I’m thankful I have such a good one. For more of my thoughts on Cheryl, click HERE or if you want to know how to honor a pastor’s wife, click HERE.

Planning for Sustainment Within an Organization

By Ron Edmondson on Friday, February 5th, 2010 | 8 Comments

I think where I have landed, at least for now, is that bigger than the issue of evaluation, is the issue of continuance.  The fact is that I really do believe growth is occurring in individual lives, not just in the total numbers of people. We are accomplishing our objective to “make growing disciples of Jesus Christ”.  I still want to consider ways to validate that belief, and I have some ideas I’m working on there, but the key word for me now is sustainability.  I want us to be able to continue doing what we’ve been doing.

10 Questions with Leader Carlos Whittaker/LosWhit (Soul City Church)

By Ron Edmondson on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 | 6 Comments

Carlos Whitaker is one of the most creative and inspiring leaders in today’s church culture. Carlos also has one of the most read blogs among Christians. Carlos is an architect of visions and his current work is with the launch this Spring of Soul City Church in Chicago. (I wrote about Soul City’s Jarrett Stevens HERE.)