Episode 716: A New Model for Funding Churches: Mark Batterson on Visionary Entrepreneurship, and The Gradual and Sudden Pattern of Success
Mark Batterson unpacks the funding and church planting strategy of National Community Church, from 29 people to owning coffee houses and city blocks in one of America’s most expensive real estate markets, and how ‘success’ goes from gradual to sudden.
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