Why attend the Future Church Collective? Because you know that business as usual won’t suffice. You have dreams for ministry and people are waiting for you to turn those dreams into action. You will be inspired, challenged, and supported as you and your team move into 2022 and beyond.
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The Future Church book is intended to shed light on the current problem churches in North America are facing while at the same time, offering a solution that will lead to multiplying true disciples of Jesus.
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My prayer is that the Visual Summary will further your efforts to pivot your teams and your church to a new paradigm of disciple-making. That’s what Future Church is all about—and I want to give you every tool I can think of to equip you to make that happen.
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I want you to get a look at the forward by Ed Stetzer, the table of contents, the introduction, and the first chapter of the Future Church book so you can get a taste of what it includes.
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In the Future Church book, I share seven universal principles of real church growth. These principles were sparked when I woke up at 2am in early 2016. Underlying all of these laws is the belief that what most “church growth” tools aim at is NOT real church growth.
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Future Church provides a framework from which you can pivot your church away from an over-reliance on programs (especially those programs based on in-person attendance) toward a better future.
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The movement that Jesus started is still breaking forth in the minds of church leaders, in the life of disciples and in the organizational make-up of churches across the country. That’s why I couldn’t be more excited about the release of Future Church and the next big master tool—Funnel Fusion.
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In taking some time to process these consistent themes that connect the concepts of the Future Church book to the specific and significant challenges pastors are facing head-on right now, I want to share what I’ve come to see as the 5 Ways for Pastors to Win the Cultural Moment in 2021.
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I founded the Future Church Company to bring break-thru, disciple-making clarity to church leaders in the next era of 2020-2040, based on my forthcoming book, Future Church: 7 Laws of Real Church Growth
[...]Effective leadership includes an acute awareness of context. What are people feeling? What are they thinking about? What is most important to them right now? How can I best serve them where they are today? Most times, these questions don't need Why is This Moment So Critical? There are several reasons why this particular moment is so critical to your future mission-related effectiveness. The most important one, though, can be summed up in one word: disruption. People's lives have been completely disrupted. This is Why I Wrote Future Church I've been working on a book for the last 9 months that was already going to be called Future Church: Seven Laws of Real Church Growth. What's astounded me, though, is how quickly we've [...]
A sneak preview of a new tool that shows where the church has been and where it is going.
[...]My daughter and I practiced her spelling bee words as I drove her to school this morning. Abby is a 10-year old. On the drive home, I pondered what Abby might do when she grows up. Every now and again [...]
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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