While at Concordia Lutheran in San Antonio today, TJ, their tech guru, mentioned that the Geeks and God podcast/resource did a nice promo of Church Unique. Check out the three minute review at 12:20 in the podcast entitled "Tech You Can't Live Without." [...]
From the chapter "Gestures and Postures," Andy Crouch clarifies how the Gospel writers worked to contextualize their message about Jesus Christ to the culture.How have Christians related to the vast and complex enterprise of culture? The answers are as varied as [...]
An Auxano team member is reading through C.S. Lewis in 2009. She sent me an excerpt from the Screwtape Letters where Screwtape (a demon) is speaking. He says that God wants us to ask and answer simple, relevant questions. Therefore [...]
I just finished a week with the kids in Park City, Utah- an annual getaway for inspiration, excitement and reflection. This year we were snowed-in an extra day due to Christmas eve blizzard with over 2 feet of snow. The [...]
Developing metrics is an essential aspect to the work of a vision consultant. At Auxano, we embed the starting point for good metrics into the Vision Frame. This side of the frame we define as either the Mission Measure or [...]
My friend William Vanderbloemen at Faith Search Partners just sent over this NYT article on church attendance in difficult economic times. When it comes to stewardship and generosity so many church's rely on the plug and play programs, which obviously can be very helpful. [...]
I entered the world of social networking somewhat reluctantly about a year ago. At the time, Church Unique was set to release in four months; initial encouragement from the publisher and best practice from other authors pushed me over the [...]
When Gateway Community Church relocated and changed their name, they worked with Auxano to clarify their vision and to build a compelling brand. After their Vision Frame was developed, the team collaborated to determine a brand promise of "Authentic Excitement." [...]
In reflecting on yesterday's post, several great church marketing campaigns come to mind. One is Sugar Creek Baptist Church's "Live for a Change" initiative. When Auxano navigated the Vision Pathway with this church, they also contracted with us to build [...]
We spend a great deal of time helping churches build their brand as we communicate vision visually. One part of the brand is a tagline- a short phrase that communicates the promise or strength of the church and its vision. [...]
I had a moment that transcended the turkey, pilgrims and pumpkin pie this thanksgiving. It was a moment of looking my children eyeball to eyeball and sensing a mutual gratitude for gift of each other. In the interchange, Joel, my [...]
This last week I led a quarterly offsite meeting for Faithbridge. Faithbridge is second home church for me as I serve as a leadership coach on the staff. Our focus of the day was the "challenge of structure." I started [...]
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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