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September 20, 2016 1 Comment

Mentoring someone into faith or deeper into faith is your responsibility. Unless you're the pastor, it's not the pastor's responsibility. Unless you're a Sunday school teacher, it's not the Sunday school's responsibility. Unless you're

August 25, 2016 1 Comment

My denomination, The United Methodist Church, has just initiated a program called “Praying Our Way Forward.” This is a denomination wide program that begins with Phase One, which is encouraging all the Bishops

August 17, 2016 0 Comments

What is church hospitality?  Is it unique from other hospitality?  What about the rather significant emphasis on hospitality in the Bible?  Let's be honest, most churches are fortunate to have good hospitality, not

August 5, 2016 0 Comments

The one ingredient a Level 5 church cannot do without is radical discipleship. Raising up radical disciples is the underbelly of the exponential church planting movement. It’s impossible to exponentially plant churches without greatly

August 5, 2016 2 Comments

One of the key elements of most discipleship pipelines I’ve seen is what I call missional small groups. The problem is, when most people hear “small groups” they think of Bible studies, which

August 3, 2016 0 Comments

A paradigm is a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodologies that are commonly accepted and shared by members of any discipline or group.  As such paradigms determine how we