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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 [...]

Now more than ever, church leaders need practical tools to make them more effective in doing ministry. Especially in a time where we are being forced to abandon previous assumptions and develop new strategies, done-for-you tools can save countless hours [...]

Last week, Dave Rhodes and I launched a webinar series that is taking place every Monday through May 11. In this series, we're talking about how pastors and church leaders can move from making frantic decisions to making strategic decisions [...]

Most church teams enjoy hanging out together.  The weekly rhythm of doing church brings staff and volunteers together across a broad span of activities– the laughing and praying of our leading and meeting. While no church is perfect, many staff [...]

My friend, Larry Osborne, leads North Coast Community Church with a group of gifted leaders. I enjoy his writing as much as any pastor who writes on leadership. This October, he releases a book entitled, Innovations Dirty Little Secret. (I just sent [...]

Instead of counting Christians, we need to weigh them. - Dallas WillardClear vision requires clarity about the results you are after. Any result you might desire for your ministry will fit into three broad categories - input results, output results and [...]

Less cash doesn't have to mean less mission.  Albeit painful, seasons of crunch force us to re-examine, re-engineer, and re-fine our understanding of the organization's essence. Success has a way of obscuring the essence. It leads to what my friend [...]

How do you present a church vision? The answer is simple: Everyday No doubt many of you are thinking about vision at the dawn of 2010. So I would invite you to reconsider vision delivery in 2010.This post is a [...]