The Demise of Cash and Checks
The other day I said something online about writing a check and I received guffaws from some of my colleagues. I didn’t understand the intensity of their response to my comment, so I investigated why they responded so negatively to my comment about writing a check. Here’s what I found. U.S. consumers and businesses wrote […]
The Most Important Day of the Year
The most important day of the year for churches is just around the corner. Christmas Eve, not Easter, is the most important day of the year to reach unchurched people. This fact has been true for decades but it is becoming more true today. So what does this mean for your church? One, if you […]
MULTIPLICATION WONT HAPPEN WITHOUT …
Recently, someone asked me to boil down the concept of multiplication as far as I possibility can. So here goes. Looking at many of the churches that are multiplying I’ve noticed there are five things that I see in every one of these churches and oddly enough they coincide with our book Dinosaurs to Rabbits: […]
Dinosaurs to Rabbits: Introduction – Chapter 08
Ready, Set, Go Hopefully you’ve concluded that multiplication is a mindset and the way to do ministry and not merely a program or model. It’s a new world view, a new way of living that’s on fire to reach as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. As such it can embrace […]
Dinosaurs to Rabbits: Introduction – Chapter 06
I forget who first said it but “culture eats strategy every time.” Church culture is the intersection of vision, values, narrative, leaders, and practices that characterize and guide an organization as shown in the graphic. The reason any kind of major change is so difficult and takes so long is because of culture. A church’s […]
Dinosaurs to Rabbits: Chapter 04 – Introduction
Radical Discipleship Let me ask you a question – Do you consider every person in your congregation to be a potential neighborhood missionary? If you do, you’re well on your way to being part of a multiplication ministry because multiplication ministry is not so much about you as it is what you cause to happen […]