Episode 364 - Church Planting Secrets Every Entrepreneur Needs | Dave Ferguson
Faith Driven Entrepreneur
What if your pastor thinks more like an entrepreneur than you realize? Dave Ferguson—co-founder of Community Christian Church and the New Thing Network, which helped plant 30,000 churches across 69 countries—joins Justin Forman to unpack the surprising parallels between church planters and entrepreneurs, and why their collaboration might be the most powerful force for community transformation available today.
Show Notes
When Pastors and Entrepreneurs Unite: Multiplication, Movement, and Missional Imagination
What happens when you put a pastor and an entrepreneur in a room with a whiteboard? According to Dave Ferguson, you get real solutions that push back darkness with light. Join host Justin Forman as he sits down with Dave Ferguson—co-founder of Community Christian Church in Chicago and the New Thing Network, which has helped plant 30,000 churches across 69 countries—to explore what it really takes to build a movement, why church planters and entrepreneurs are more alike than they think, and how "missional imagination" could be the missing ingredient in both the church and the marketplace.
Dave shares hard-won lessons from decades of church planting, network building, and leadership development—including the leadership framework from his upcoming book Multiplier: How Healthy Leaders Create Lasting Impact. From the four Rs that fueled exponential growth to the RPMS dashboard that keeps leaders healthy over the long haul, this conversation is packed with frameworks entrepreneurs will immediately recognize and apply.Key Topics:
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