In addition to the blog and podcast, I’ve been counseling church teams at a price few can afford. The majority of church plants come from leaders of smaller churches. I’ve decided to focus my efforts in the direction of startup churches and smaller congregations. I also want to provide useful bits of help for church leaders in developing nations where money can be scarce, and internet access is often expensive.

You’ll gain insight to your rapidly changing world as I share wisdom accrued over five decades of change and tumult. Where others stumble over obstacles, I usually spot hidden opportunities to innovate.

Content will progress in a somewhat linear fashion with each module below, lasting between 4 and 7 weeks, depending on the need/interest. 

• How to Start and Lead a Church in the Post-Evangelical Era *Starts in October 2021
  
• Keep the Main Things the Main Things: Learning to Maximize Your Time Without Destroying Your Life
• Deep and Wide: Building Solid Bible Knowlege Without Boring People to Death
• Coaching for Leverage: Clutching the Opportunity to Leverage Your Gifts in Others
• Start Now to Leave a Legacy that Will Outlive You
• Maximizing Multiplication: Facing the Tensions Which Keep Most Leaders from the Prize
• Flex and Pivot to Embrace New Technology While Retaining a Biblical Mission and Strategy
• Bulletproofing Your Church: Learning to Avoid the People and Pitfalls that Defeat Church Planters
• Marriage and Ministry: Helping a Pastor’s Spouse Keep Meaning in Family, Church and Extended Ministry
• Your Money: Achieving Financial Freedom on A Pastor’s Salary
• Write That Book: Why and How Every Church Planter Can and Should Write a Semi-autobiography
• Hire, Fire and Manage in Between: Strategies and Tools to Ensure the Success of Those Who Work with You
• Church Money: How to Stay Out of Jail, Out of the News and In Trust with Your People

I began discipling/coaching four middle-school boys when I was just 19 years old. Those four morphed into a youth group where we ran a rudimentary disciplemaking program. It was a useful but scattered approach to making disciples. Also, we operated as knowledge gleaning programs learning amid deeper relationships – there is a big difference between the two processes.

After planting the first Hope Chapel, in 1971, I found myself making disciples relationally, but in a hodge-podge manner. Fruitful, but lacking integration and not the best use of time. 

Several years later, I learned to make disciples around pre-arranged content–either a sermon or a chapter from a book. Our team then determined to coach in groups rather than individually. From there, we built a “disciplemaking continuum” involving hundreds of people in aligned and synchronized coaching groups. After this, church multiplication became a slam dunk.

After “retiring,” and with the advent of Zoom, I’ve coached leaders and teams for a few large churches. That’s great, and the results are satisfying. However, I want to offer what I can to the leaders of smaller congregations and newly planted churches. One particular concern is for our friends in developing nations – I’ve taught repeatedly in just under 30 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe. Many live under the twin shadows of persecution and poverty. One aspect of this regimen is to deliver quality help at a low cost.