As promised last month,the November issue of Auxano Insights focuses on Developing Leaders - one of the five categories of the Integration Model as unpacked in Church Unique. What good is clear vision without a cascading movement of leaders who [...]
I ran into this simple but powerful post of 27-year old Sean Chandler. He is a student pastor in Round Rock, Texas that has been thinking about vision lately.Imagine waking up one day to do leadership training and realizing that, [...]
One of Auxano's navigators, Rich Kannwischer, just sent me this quote from Mother Teresa. We always talk about how unlocking the future is about going deeper with who we already are and what we already have. To understand how much [...]
How many dumb mission statements do you hear like: Our challenge is to assertively network economically sound methods of empowerment so that we may continually negotiate performance-based infrastructures.If you have been around church at all, you know that we are good at specializing in these [...]
A few days before my 40th birthday I was thinking about a quote that's been guiding my life for the last 25 years. I read somewhere that I can't remember the idea that: In the first half of your life, the opportunity of every situation is found more in what you learn than in what you give. Hmmmm...what does that mean now that the first half of my life is over? For some reason, I take comfort (maybe too much comfort) in the fact that I still get to learn more than I give. It throws me [...]
I just received a blog post from a leader who is considering working with Auxano. The team is talking a lot about identity and culture in their church and one of the staff sent this post around entitled, "The dirty [...]
Uncovering your Kingdom Concept is practice along the Vision Pathway to answer the question, "What can your church do better than 10,000 others." In defining this reality for each church we look closely at Place (Local Predicament), People (Collective Potential) [...]
While my mind is on CAVE dwellers from yesterday's post, I thought I would pass on this top ten list I saw on Josh Reich's blog, a young pastor in Tucson. Below is his post on a book by Bob Franquiz [...]
C.A.V.E. dwellers are people Consistently Against Virtually Everything and they are alive and well in most churches. In fact a recent study by a Gallop guy named Albert Winseman says that 17% of the average church is made up of [...]
Max Lucado says that writing a book is like giving birth to barbwire. His words as a prolific author encouraged me through the pangs of writing Church Unique.But as hard as it is to write a book, the hardest thing [...]
One of the most common questions I have been asked is, “What is the best way forany church to understand how its vision can penetrate and influence the cultureof the church? In Church Unique I presented the Integration Model that introduces [...]
I was glad to see Chuck Swindoll get the legacy award at Catalyst today. He just got off the stage and truly engaged the young audience. It was fun to watch the crowd "surprised" by the wisdom and humor of [...]
I want you and your ministry to experience the benefits of stunning, God-given clarity. As a pastor turned vision coach, I’ve worked with an unprecedented variety of churches from growing mega-churches and missional communities, to mainline revitalization and church plants. I started several interconnected organizations that help the church embody the movement that Jesus founded. My visionary planning tools, the Vision Frame and the Horizon Storyline are used by thousands of churches every year through my calling to raise up other consultants and trainers. In 2004, I founded Auxano, which I sold to LifeWay and continued to lead until 2020. In 2014, I created Younique to deliver gospel-centered life design through the church. It is now the world's only comprehensive, open-source life plan system.
In 2023, I founded Run Free as my official team-based consulting shop. We deliver the most innovative Vision Framing experiences available to church teams through the "Pivvot Process" and to network/denominational leaders through the "Denominee Process." We also offer team coaching to church leaders using the "Performance Practices" of meta-performance executive coaching.
I've written seven books: Future Church, Church Unique, Younique, Clarity Spiral, God Dreams, Innovating Discipleship, and Building Leaders. I enjoy speaking about clarity, calling, disciple-making, and vision. It's all about helping one another do more than we can imagine. I co-locate in Houston and Chile with my wife, Romy, and the last of my four children, Poema.
If you are interested in Run Free's consulting offerings or want to discuss getting a LifePlan, just reach out to set up a conversation.
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