I love old British sportscars. I’ve owned the two models you see in the picture above. They are beautiful, simple to work on and get lots of attention when you drive them. But the older ones can’t go...
Church multiplication requires labor for the harvest. We can pray for it and Jesus will do his best. But, are you doing your best? Are you a critic or a critical thinker? A judge or a heromaker...
I’m writing on a flight home from Exponential West—a conference for leaders targeting church multiplication. This piece is a response to a question I was repeatedly asked as I taught… “How can...
Collaboration is a buzz word. Cooperation is all the rage, especially among millennials. It’s most important in church planting. It can be fun, it is necessary to get certain things done...
Biases, both positive and negative, are part of everyone’s life. So what’s behind my aversion to bivocational pastoring and self-funding strategies? I’m not certain I can answer that… but as I...
“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...
Leadership is a funny thing. Often it requires little more than looking at a situation from a different angle. Good leaders do this well. When dealing with “crisis” moments we can either let them...
