My wife and I just returned from vacation throughout the British Isles (along with 52 friends from Hawaii). She and I arrived a few days early to teach a seminar with a small but growing group...
Our model is broken. For decades we’ve planted mid-size to large Hope Chapels in Hawaii. Mostly shooting for 150 at start, some grew beyond it. Most stabilized around the original size. Some shrank...
The Holy Spirit blesses church planting movements. While the twelve held council in Jerusalem, a bunch of un-named people planted churches in Cyprus, Cyrene and eventually in Antioch. From Antioch...
“We’re buying a sailboat so we can sail to Peru and spend a year surfing…” With those words my discipleship group broke up or at least floated into the sunset. I had spent...
Peter Drucker wrote that we must measure, or judge every effort. He added, “…the single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.” If results...
We were suspicious. His conversion story was bizarre at worst, unconventional at best. Tom McCarthy was a young medical doctor and faculty member at UCLA Medical Center. He showed up in church, in...
Some time ago, I spoke with a hurting former church planter. The church he led died a couple of years ago. He was feeling bad about the death of the church he loved. Where he saw failure, I saw a...
