Disciple has Too Much Baggage to Be Effective
I’m constantly asked, “What’s the best curriculum for leadership development or discipleship?” as if either one is something that can be taught and learned in a course. My response is always the same – “You are the curriculum.” I often get a blank stare because in the West we think of everything as if it […]
Flip Your Church Step 1: Model Thought, Word, Deed
This post is a continuation of “The Missional Church: The Comet That Killed the Dinosaurs or a Knight in Shining Armor?” “Everything rises or falls on leadership.” John Maxwell wasn’t the first one to intimate it, but he made the statement famous in this generation. In the fairly recent past, leadership was considered more of a […]
Does Every Group Need a Leader?
I received an email today from a client asking me if every group, even a micro group, needed an identified leader. Here is my response.It’s been my experience that no group functions at its peak without an identified leader. Even in a group of three or four, someone will emerge as first among equals or […]
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We live in a world about which one of the only things we can say for sure at the moment is that it is set on speed. Things get faster and faster every year. That’s one of the reasons I don’t understand people who will allow emails to sit for days on end instead of answering […]
A Second Resurrection Hits Amazon.ca Bestseller List
I just returned from speaking to the Presbyterian Church of Canada. While I was there I learned from one of the bookseller that my book, A Second Resurrection, made the bestseller list on www.Amazon.ca. This is good and bad news. Good that this book is selling well, but bad that so many churches are in such trouble that […]
Describing What’s Happening Today
I had a conversation today with a lady in an Ontario bookstore where they were doing a book signing for some of my books. We were talking about a couple of new books that I had recommended: And: The Gathered and Scattered Church and Exponential, neither of which are on Amazon.ca yet. She said, I guess they […]