CPP #482: An Interview with Jon Ferguson

It's a special guest episode this week with our friend Jon Ferguson from Naperville, Illinois! Robert and Jon talk all about multiplying a church "pregnant" to plant another church, multiplying your life through evangelism, and BLESS rhythms to love your neighbor and the world. Jon is the co-founding pastor of Community Christian Church in Chicagoland where he provides leadership in new ventures. Jon is also one of COMMUNITY’s Lead Teaching Pastors.In addition, Jon led in the launch of NewThing, a church-planting movement, whose mission is to be a catalyst for movements of reproducing churches that includes over 1000 churches and sites in the US and abroad. He has co-authored Finding Your Way Back to God, Starting Over – Living Beyond Your Regrets, and Bless: 5 Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World. He has also co-authored The Big Idea: Aligning the Ministries of Your Church Through Creative Collaboration and Exponential: How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement. He resides in the Lincoln Park Community of Chicago with his wife, Lisa, and their two children, Graham and Chloe.  You can follow him on Twitter @jonferguson, on Facebook at facebook.com/jonferguson, or at www.www.jonferguson.org.Other resources referenced in this episode: This guide from Lisa Ferguson for families and BLESS rhythms: send an email to Sonburstinfo@gmail.com to access! Mentioned in this episode:This episode was brought to you by ChurchWebBuilder. If you've been meaning to scrap your terrible Wordpress church website, or you just need to actually sit down and make your church plants' website, let this be a sign to you. With CWB's library of church specific templates and integrations, and the included all-in-one marketing and communication platform, a beautiful new website is literally sitting there, waiting for you to take it. Go to www.churchwebbuilder.io and use the code PLANTER at checkout. You'll get 50% off your entire first year.