Are You Ready to Go Multi-site?
Here are a few questions you should be able to answer affirmatively before going multi-site. 1. Is my church growing a minimum of 5% per year? 2. Is my church 80% full at the main service? 3. Is my community 50% unchurched or more? 4. Does my church have a good reputation in the community? 5. […]
Life Lessons Learned along the Way
This is not a religious article, but it begins with a spiritual dimension because I believe spirituality is the foundation of a healthy life. You can share this article with anyone and it should not offend. If it does, they have a problem, not you. This is a piece about LIFE and what I’ve learned […]
Turning Dreams into Reality
In the last decade, a ton of books have been written on the importance of developing mission, vision, and value statements and casting vision. There’s nothing wrong with that; in fact, mission, vision, and value and casting vision are where all great work begins. But…. The problem is that these actions will not turn dreams […]
The Church Growth Movement Revisited
The church growth movement has taken a bad rap the past decade. Many unfair comments have been made in an attempt to either discredit it or make it obsolete. I’m sure there are many reasons for the attempts to either discredit or make the movement obsolete. At worst the attempts were the acts of incompetent […]
Firing a Person for Incompetence
The more I work with lead pastors the more I realize how hard it is for them to fire a staff person who isn’t performing or isn’t a team player or is just downright disruptive. Too many pastors put up with so much crap from one or two on their staff that they shoot themselves […]
Decentralization
The world I grew up in taught there is one way to do everything and one size fits all. That’s the heart of the industrial world of modernity. However, just the opposite is true today. You know that if you own most any kind of software or cell phone. Almost everything today is undergoing decentralization. That’s […]