Last year on my birthday, I tweeted 40 thoughts on clarity. I thought it would be a good excuse to send more tweets than usual in a day. Since I never included them in a blog post, here they are, [...]
Last week I posted 5 Strategic Reasons to Change Your Church's Name. Here are a few illustrations of the third reason:#3 When the name re-clarifies a church’s identity during a relaunch, an organizational right of passage or a new strategic [...]
Tyranny of More: 6 Common Myths that Drive Churches to Do Too Much
Tyranny is a good word to capture the dominance that myths can have over our mind. It's so easy in ministry to do the wrong things for the right reasons. Imagine that- totally pure motives, great kingdom intentions and white-hot [...]
Tyranny is a good word to capture the dominance that myths can have over our mind. It's so easy in ministry to do the wrong things for the right reasons. Imagine that- totally pure motives, great kingdom intentions and white-hot [...]
Clarity 101 for Outreach Magazine
I am grateful for Lindy Lowry at Outreach Magazine and her interest in publishing topics related to vision and clarity for church leaders. Recently they published:A feature article on Vision as The Indespensable Element in the Nov/Dec issue. I was [...]
I am grateful for Lindy Lowry at Outreach Magazine and her interest in publishing topics related to vision and clarity for church leaders. Recently they published:A feature article on Vision as The Indespensable Element in the Nov/Dec issue. I was [...]
The second story of our series on 5 Strategic Reasons to Change Your Church's Name comes from Jon Tyson at Trinity Grace in New York City. His leadership illustrates the second strategic reason to change a name:#2 When a name [...]
This story continues a series started from the 5 Strategic Reasons to Change Your Church's Name. The first reason is... When the scope of a church's ministry grows beyond a name that is geographically limited.This reason has occurred for many churches venturing into [...]
Your name is always your first opportunity to cast vision. Your name says something and means something to everyone who hears it or sees it. A wise leader understands the importance of a ministry's name and maintaining continuity with a [...]
3 Kinds of Church Complexity and What to Do About It
Unnecessary complexity lives to some degree in every church. Effective leaders know how to identify it and deal with it because complexity always drains energy, attention, and other resources from the mission of Jesus. Be aware of these three kinds [...]
Unnecessary complexity lives to some degree in every church. Effective leaders know how to identify it and deal with it because complexity always drains energy, attention, and other resources from the mission of Jesus. Be aware of these three kinds [...]
The Code of Elevation Church: A Church Unique Snapshot
Every leader who takes their culture seriously will name that which matters most. This expression of "values," if not called "values," will then be articulated.David Loveless of Discovery Church calls it The Discovery DifferenceBruce Miller of McKinney Fellowship calls is it Our [...]
