Converge church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee continue their discussion on how to instill multiplication into a church’s DNA. This episode explores seven models of church planting.


1:50 Danny talks about the benefits and downside of the multisite model.

4:25 Lee shares a question the parent church needs to ask itself when considering multisite.

5:30 Danny says he’s seen more mistakes with multisite than any other model.

7:00 Lee and Danny discuss the death by dignity model.

9:15 Danny talks about the unplanned pregnancy model, when a church is planted because of a church split.

10:55 Lee talks about how churches that think they are too small or young to plant can use the partnering church planting model.

12:53 Lee and Danny discuss the parachute/pioneering model, where a leader recruits a small group of leaders and they go into uncharted territory.

14:24 Lee and Danny talk about the differences between the branching and colonizing models.