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.