Nothing Beats a Meeting
You may be surprised by the title. Who wouldn’t be? I believe it was a Harvard Business School study that revealed that the more meetings we attend, the more our IQ’s drop. In this blog, and in our books, we’ve pointed out that the lead pastor needs to bow out of a many meetings as […]
The Last Easum Event … Really
Someone asked me yesterday if this is really going to be my last event or was it just promotion. Hmmm. No one has ever heard me say anything like “this is my last event” before. At 79, it is the last one, I assure you. So, I wouldn’t wait for the next one because their […]
Chalk Talk
This week marks the beginning of Fall and many of us catch a bug this time of year. I’m not talking about the common cold or the flu. I’m talking about “football fever” that infects millions of Americans about now. Now I know that this epidemic has reduced some with the recent controversy over political […]
New Wine Part 5
Change is difficult. Change in a church is even harder, sometimes, nearly impossible. So what do you do if you are trying to change the culture of a traditional church that is dying? First let me tell you what you don’t do. I most always suggest to churches that they don’t radically change their worship service. […]
New Wine Part 4
When Jesus was talking about not pouring new wine into old wine skins he was communicating the fragile nature of change. Change is difficult, especially in churches so, we need to develop a purposeful process for change. Here is a five-step process you can use to implement real and lasting change in your church. Step 1: […]
New Wine Skins Part 3
Jesus says you can’t put new wine in old wine skins because old wine skins become brittle and lose their functionality. He is communicating to us today that we must create new wine skins to house the vibrancy of new wine. This is a principle of life in which new situations most always require new […]