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...
Should church multiplication be about planting bigger churches. Or, should church planting be about planting many small churches? Both are wrong answers. The true fruit of an apple tree is not apples...
A friend of mine, named Kaz Sekine, planted a successful church in the heart of Tokyo where real estate costs are among the highest on earth. With nowhere available to rent they had to innovate. Kaz...
