Continuing thoughts for churches that want to plant churches:

2. Find the right church planter.

Presumably you want to plant a church that is similar to yours (note, this does not apply to Self-Loathing Community Church of Almy, WY). In order to do this, you need to find a church planter that is both qualified (right mix of spiritual gifts, experience, passions, and personality for the job) and a good fit for your church. It helps if you can find a church planter who knows your church, understands its DNA, and is committed to a similar way of "doing" church. Now, obviously, no church plant will be exactly like its parent church. But if you're a Baptist church committed to expositional preaching and Reformed theology, you probably aren't going to be happy with a seeker sensitive Methodist church planter.

This may sound spectacularly obvious, but I think a lot of churches tend to look for qualified church planters without considering compatibility issues. I've had experiences in a couple of church plants, and I've seen some of the difficulties and tensions that arise when the church planter isn't quite on the same page with the planting church.