I haven't been pushing a lot of new content on the blog for the last 3 years. Here's why — and what's coming next.
Three years ago I moved my family to Chile. One of those years was pure renewal and restoration. For the first time in two decades, I stayed home more than I traveled. Forty of fifty-two weeks off the road. Every day with Romy and our bonus baby Poema, who's nine now.
I needed the quiet. And in the quiet, I got to work.
Just before COVID, I finished writing Future Church. Then I did the thing I'd wanted to do for years. I took the Vision Framing toolbox apart. Every tool. Every sequence. And I rebuilt it — new paradigm tools, new pilot experiences, a reordered process.
Then I tested it. Not in theory. In the field, with real churches, over real time. More than 100 of them, each walking a full twelve-month Vision Framing.
The results changed how I think about this work.
These churches are seeing entirely new disciplemaking results. The mission measures and strategy coming out the other side are not what the old toolbox produced. Something shifts when a church stops measuring what happens inside its walls and starts measuring fruitfulness where people actually live, work, and play.
You know the ache. Programs running every night of the week. Calendars full. And still, somehow, disciples aren't forming the way you hoped. Over-programmed. Under-discipled. You feel the gap even when you can't name it.
That gap is what the rebuilt toolbox is built to close.
I call it Pivvot Vision Framing.
For five years I walked churches through this before I was willing to teach anyone else to facilitate it. That patience was the point. I wanted the tools proven, not promising.
Now I'm ready. This September, for the first time since Future Church, I'm certifying a small group to lead others through these tools.
Four days. September 22–25, in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Twenty seats. A four-to-one facilitation ratio, so no one gets lost in the room. I'm leading it alongside Brooke Domek and Andrew Estes.
Twenty isn't false scarcity. It's the number that lets us actually train facilitators instead of lecturing a crowd.
I put everything in one place — the story behind the rebuild, the tools, what the four days hold, and how to reserve a seat.
Read it. If it stirs something, let's talk or reserve your seat at runfree.co/certification. (I have a video here to describe the certification more.) Email me if you want to talk.
It's good to be back.
Let's run free into what Jesus started.
