5 Steps to Start a New Church | LifeBridge Church Story | Missional Church Planting

How do you start a new church? Dustin Serns from LifeBridge Church shares 5 steps to help you start a missional-focused church in your area based on their experience with church planting in Tacoma, WA.

5 Steps to Start a New Church:
1. Pray and Recruit
Learn how Jesus will help you find people for your team who are hungry, humble and smart
2. Seek God's Vision
Study Scripture, your community and your team to discover the vision God has for you as a church. Identify your primary focus group to know who specifically to seek to bless and reach.
3. Live on Mission
Based on your vision, choose 1-3 ministries to launch with and start them a few months before you launch. Commit to living on mission personally through missional-incarnational rhythms to bless people and build friendships in the community.
4. Begin Worshipping Together
Begin monthly worship gatherings to lead up to a weekly worship presence.
5. Create a Discipleship Pathway
Create a plan for how to make disciples. Define what qualities or practices you want to help people grow in. How can people decide for, prepare and celebrate baptism? How will you help people grow in their faithfulness to Jesus?

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This video was originally created for and featured at the Seventh-day Adventist Church North American Division Church Planting Boot Camp in May 2021.
Dustin is indebted to Dr. Anthony Wagenersmith for developing some of the concepts shared in this video.

The example mentioned of mishional-incarnational rhythms (BELLS) was drawn from Michael Frost, Surprise the World: The Five Habits of Highly Missional People.

[keithjackson]

Thank you for sharing. The best video I’ve seen on this subject so far, and I’ve watched quite a few.

[laibalasenwa]

God blessing you . Thank you Good message

[justindeweese]

This is so good. My favorite part is when you said at staff meetings, we share stories. Always keeping the focus on Jesus and life change.

[Olubunmioludoyimetiboba]

Thank God for tour life, God just used you to give me so much clarity. God bless you sir! Thank God I watched this life changing video.

[jamesanderson]

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[paeaahomana]

Thank you for this. Love the diversity

[ttusvps]

Really! Be blessed and am proud of you.from Ethiopia.

[Joe-gkhk]

Wow am amazed. Over 300 views less than 1% comments.
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Am so blessed to have watched this video. The teaching and revelation is deep. Thanks so much.

[mngbsff]

Thanks so much for these insights. Never thought of so many of these things you shared but they have been quite instructive.

[blessedstudiostz]

I have been very impressed by you, I am very blessed by your documentary on how to start a church, I have been a cameraman for 10 years and I have had a call to serve God for a long time without success due to the fear of starting a ministry but with your guidance I now feel successful. Mungua may he bless you very much

[marisazabala]

I'm interested in learning more about how you started your dental clinic. I would like to start a church with the mission to rehabilitate people in the clutches of hard drugs, and take them out of the public parks and off the sidewalks, giving them a clear path to sobriety and a way to integrate into society as a contributing citizens. There is a HUGE need for it in our community in Southern oregon and people are very divided on how to deal with it the issues of homelessness and drugs.

[federicodialinojr]

Pls. Include us to your prayer, we are aiming to plant a church.

[e.harrison]

But how did you register legally though?

[Solideogloria]

Very informative. I have a question, what’s with the young “professional” families? What about those who are not professional?

That “professional” emphasis seems like it’s because they can give more money to the church.

[ekim]

imagine thinking that an invisible sky magician made everything, god is the prescription for ignorance

[thegearednomads]

As a pastor, church planter and professor I am interested as to why the information presented in this video is being passed off as though the information is the presenters creation. There are no links, no mentions, nothing included giving credit to Paul Lencioni "Humble, Hungry, Smart, " and other's. The presenter is presenting information as though he himself has come up with this information, yet he is in many places directly quoting others books. I was sent this video by a former student who noticed. We all want to spread the gospel and grow healthy, missional churches, but passing off the information of others who have done the work, research, learned the lessons, and sought God's guidance in planting and developing the material should be given credit and shared. Please breakdown the time stamps and the information given with appropriate links to the material the presenter pulled from. That would actually benefit the effectiveness and audience of this video more than it currently does.

[MarkShelby]

Amazingly, God led them to reach out to the *underserved" population of young medical professionals. 😂

[Servant-of-People]

Greetings,
We want your teaching resources for plant c.
How can I contact you please?

[ssenthilkumar]

Sir I want to start a church, by birth I am a Hindu but I am working in RC Christian institution in my area no church, my vision is to educate my nearby community I am in India, tamil nadu state.can you please give me some idea I have land to build church.expecting reply from you thank you

[matheusmuzik]

I love this...churches have become dry hypocritical country clubs with no love no heart no empathy...and does not use the gospel as the greatest tool to reach the world... extremely sad