40 Top Thoughts on Clarity at 40
A few days before my 40th birthday I was thinking about a quote that's been guiding my life for the last 25 years. I read somewhere that I can't remember the idea that: [...]
Do You Provide Clear Identity or Glittering Generalities?
I just received a blog post from a leader who is considering working with Auxano. The team is talking a lot about identity and culture in their church and one of the staff sent this post around [...]
Great Prelaunch Vision Video on Local Predicament
Uncovering your Kingdom Concept is practice along the Vision Pathway to answer the question, "What can your church do better than 10,000 others." In defining this reality for each church we look [...]
Are CAVE Dwellers Holding Back Your Vision?
C.A.V.E. dwellers are people Consistently Against Virtually Everything and they are alive and well in most churches. In fact a recent study by a Gallop guy named Albert Winseman says that 17% of the [...]
Top Ten Things Church Hoppers Say
While my mind is on CAVE dwellers from yesterday's post, I thought I would pass on this top ten list I saw on Josh Reich's blog, a young pastor in Tucson. Below is his post on a book by Bob Franquiz [...]
Deeper, More Challenging and More Inspiring
Max Lucado says that writing a book is like giving birth to barbwire. His words as a prolific author encouraged me through the pangs of writing Church Unique.But as hard as it is to write a book, the [...]
