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After a decade serving and leading in a turn around church, God has taught me several lessons.  They keep in spirit with the lessons I wrote about five years ago, but have more

“We are committed to becoming a church of small groups.” “Life-change happens best in small groups.” “Everyone needs authentic community.” These statements, and others like them, are heard often in churches around the

June 2002 This September marks my five year anniversary at Grace Church. God's Spirit continues to blow on our work. This January we launched our fifth weekend service, the Saddleback model, Celebrate Recovery.

I just returned from Vietnam where the church is exploding. What I saw on this trip, and have seen on past trips, is a church growing. It’s not because of Western involvement, or

In June I attended a workshop on “Managing Creativity” sponsored by Leadership Network and the Disney Institute in Orlando.  Although I didn't get to see much of Disney during the day and half