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Seven Ways to Choose Where to Start Your Next Church Experiment
Chris Morton | 17 Jul 2018
A fresh expression is a form of church that exists specifically for people who don’t already “go to church.” There are fresh expressions with cowboys, bikers, preschool moms and restaurant...
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10 Ways to Help Start a New Form of Church if You’re Not the Kind of Person who Starts Things
Chris Morton | 24 May 2018
At this point in your life, you are ready to admit it: you are not a starter. Some people are starters, and being a starter is cool. We tell stories...
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3 Core Teachings from Jesus to His Pioneers
Chris Morton | 24 Jul 2017
I’m on my third attempt to start a new church. Attempt number 1 was in 2006 when I was only 23 years old. Like a lot of things from that...
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Six Signs of a Prophetic Community Your Church Needs
Chris Morton | 20 Dec 2016
If you are going to start a new church, you need a good reason why. It’s not enough to need a new job (your new church may never be able...
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7 Confessions of A Hipster Christian
Chris Morton | 31 Aug 2016
No one ever wants to be identified as a hipster. Especially hipsters. I came to peace with my unavoidable hipster-ness in June of 2011. It was already over 100 degrees...
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Three Ways the National Gathering has Improved My Understanding of Mission
Chris Morton | 4 May 2016
It’s been a few weeks now since attending the Fresh Expressions National Gathering AND: Being the Church at Church at Home and Everywhere in Between. Despite being involved with Fresh...
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Ditch Your Church’s Mission Statement. Get a Calendar Instead.
Chris Morton | 14 Apr 2016
The other day a friend asked me what my “philosophy of ministry” was. My answer was simple: put it on the calendar. You can go on and on about theology...
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10 Steps to Kill Your Church Show & Create a Participatory Liturgy
Chris Morton | 12 Apr 2016
“The fact is, we’ll never be able to out-entertain the surrounding world.” The words came from a frustrated youth minister friend. They could have come from anyone who’s ever tried to...
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How to Follow the National Gathering #FXNG2016
Chris Morton | 4 Apr 2016
The Fresh Expressions National Gathering, AND: Being the Church at Church at Home and Everywhere In Between begins Thursday! If you have not registered yet, what are you waiting for?...
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Eureka! Burnout Relief for Church People
Chris Morton | 30 Mar 2016
Why do most stories of “successful people” seem full of struggle, despair and burnout? Why do churches and church people, become so inwardly focused that they don’t know how...
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Five Unexpected Joys I Found When We Started a New Church
Chris Morton | 11 Jan 2016
Over ten years ago, I decided that starting new churches, especially fresh expressions of church was where the action was. I decided to participate in these churches and prepare myself...
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Five Reasons to be Thankful Even When Your Church World is Falling Apart
Chris Morton | 25 Nov 2015
For Christian leaders, especially those committed to established churches and denominations, it might be hard to be thankful these days. There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the media...