As consultants navigators who provide professional services as “coaches” we often answer a battery of questions prior to starting an engagement. Some of the best questions however are never asked. One of those questions is “If you believe [...]
Yesterday I led the first of three Church Unique mini-conferences for the Florida Baptist State Convention this year. Attenders included peer learning groups, churches undergoing revitalization and large fast-growing churches like Calvary Baptist in Clearwater and Flamingo Road. [...]
Last week I highlighted the need for a brand to stay consistently consistent. This week I was shocked by the yellow and pink, NOT green, Starbucks billboards peppered around the Houston highways. It brought to mind a another [...]
I had many great conversations after speaking at Leadership Network on Thursday last week. One was with Bill Bush of Rock Point Church outside of Phoenix. As we discussed his strategy icon at length (a visual representation of [...]
One of the characteristics of great brands is delivering an experience that is consistently consistent. Today, an answered prayer was met with an inconsistency for my 14-year old Jacob. Our church leaders have trained Jacob to utilize the weekend [...]
I have always viewed Warren Bird as a stud- a great thinker who works a bit behind the scenes as a collaborative writer for many effective leadership titles. You can imagine how excited I was to see his review [...]
I was scanning blog entries for last week's release of my book Church Unique (on Favebot.com). I ran across a a interview on vision with Nelson Searcy on a blog called Visional Life. Here are my two favorite snippets: [...]
I had lunch with Matt Neely this week who recently planted The Watershed Church, a UMC church close to my home in League City, TX. One topic of conversation centered around the idea that "vision" is a tainted word [...]
I get a lot of questions about the relationship between a church's vision and the senior or lead pastor. Does the vision originate from the pastor or from the people? What happens to the vision when the pastor [...]
I ran across this short article that is worth passing along. The author is a business guy who talks about "aspirational fields" as a way to align culture and energize an organization. The aspirational field in an organization [...]
I just finished spring break in Park City snowboarding with my three kids. Each morning as the blinds opened from our kitchen window, the question of clarity was answered as we noted the "visibility" of the day. [...]
When I spoke at last week's Generous Churches Leadership Community, participates were given a complimentary copy of Church Unique. The books weren't supposed to be out yet, so Chris Willard and Stephanie Plagens, really pulled the rabbit out 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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