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- No follow up
- Developing a board too soon (shouldn’t happen for 3 years)
- No marketing plan
- Too many strategies (stick to one, Rick Warren’s genius)
- Trusting the wrong people
- Declaring your non-negotiables
- Not having a covering (mother church, CMA, etc.)
- Lack of a strong Core team
- The Core team is not asked to tithe for 3 months before the start
- Poor music, drama, and arts
- Lack of good sound equipment
- Lack of preparation in preaching messages on felt-needs
- Too long of a private stage
- Lack of finances
- Starting too many ministries
- Thinking that small groups can grow your church
- Not championing the front end of the Great Commission
- Not closing the back doors (the back end of the Great Commission)
- Poor location, Insufficient facility
- No Coach.
- No ongoing plan after the opening
- No core values, no vision statement
- Lack of volunteer staff
- Downplaying the “Sunday Morning” experience
- Listening to too many voices…We need discipleship, we need a singles ministry, we need a women’s ministry, we need youth ministry, we need we need we need...
- Lack of excellence in Worship, Children’s and Youth Ministries
- After opening marketing, no ongoing plan for outreach (At least 12 Sundays for outreach, strategize Friend Days, Key Sundays!)
- Lack of professional staff building plan and vision
- Lack of local missions and outreach that captures the heart of the church
- LACK OF PRAYER, A PRAYER TEAM, and PRAYER-PARTNERS
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