Emil Brolick, Wendy’s new CEO, has a real challenge. The world has changed and Wendy’s has been stuck for 10 years. It’s now woefully behind its more nimble competitors, McDonald’s and Subway. But Emil has this simple plan: Have a vision and a strategy Define reality Give hope Execute Each step is critical, but leaders [...]
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CAVE Men
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alignment, building momentum, clarity, communication, Empowering Leadership, Leadership, Purpose, Relevant Ministry on November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
14 Ways to Raise the Bar
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged clarity, community, Connecting, Consumerism, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Leadership, Missional Ministry, Relevant Ministry, Valuable life goal, vision on September 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Over 100 years ago, Charles Spurgeon proclaimed every Christian here is either a missionary or an imposter. Recollect that. You either try to spread abroad the Kingdom of Christ, or else you do not love Him at all. You are either doing good, or you are not good yourself. That kind of challenge has been [...]
Sage Advice from Billy Graham
Posted in Culture, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged clarity, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Leadership, missional, Missional Ministry, Relevant Ministry, vision on May 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In his new book, The Next Christians, author Gabe Lyons writes that every generation must confront the unique challenges of their era. Here are three questions that must be addressed to do so: What does mission look like in America in the 21st century? How should the message of the Gospel go forward? What does [...]
A Careful Man
Posted in Bahler Family Doing Life, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, clarity, communication, Empowering Leadership, Hope, Leadership, love, Purpose, trust, Valuable life goal, vision on March 18, 2011 | 17 Comments »
My dad passed away last night. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and deteriorated rapidly over the past few weeks. It was a blessing to have my mom and all eight of us kids around his bed as his breathing grew slower and slower. It was a special time as we told stories and sang old hymns [...]
Decisions are not Made
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Relevant Ministry, tagged building momentum, clarity, communication, Hope, Leadership, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, trust on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How do we make decisions in these uncertain times when many of our old signposts have disappeared or are no longer relevant? These words from business guru Peter Drucker may offer us and our ministries some important insight: Decisions are not so much made as they become apparent. What “God things” are becoming apparent around you [...]
Do They Mimic You?
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged alignment, clarity, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Hope, Leadership, vision on September 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Half of all the churches in America failed to add one person through conversion last year. Every week, 43,000 Americans are leaving the church for good. And on average, churches 20 years old and older are shrinking every year, as the chart here shows. It’s because of statistics like these that I invested three days [...]
To The Ends
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged clarity, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Hope, Leadership, Missional Ministry on August 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Would you believe that nearly 60% of the US population will never be reached by the current models of the church? Even with a combined annual budget of nearly $107 billion (mint.com), the existing 300,000 churches in the US have failed to connect with over 180 million Americans. Americans who will probably never attend what [...]
Don’t Be Ridiculed for the Wrong Thing
Posted in Empowering Leadership, tagged Authentic, clarity, Relevant Ministry, vision on July 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Do you relate with these comments from Phil Cooke? For most of my life, Christians were laughed at or ridiculed for the wrong things. The non-believing culture made fun of boycotts, our protests over irrelevant issues, or crazy promotional stunts in the name of the gospel. Far too often, some Christians took the “peculiar people” [...]
All Our Exploring
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged alignment, building momentum, clarity, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Leadership, Purpose, Relevant Ministry on April 6, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Seeker sensitive, mega church, traditional, contemporary, relevant, post modern, attractional, missional, incarnational, house church, cell groups, small groups, church plant, multi-site, micro church, church growth, church health, simple church, church vision, church mission, church story… New books are written, church leaders are burnt out, and the beat goes on. Every week we get more calls from [...]
Avoiding Obsolescence
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Relevant Ministry, tagged clarity, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Leadership, Purpose on April 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My parents came of age in the 50′s and raised their families in a world of slow, continuous change. Boomers like me came of age in the 80′s and raised our kids in a world of fast, discontinuous change. Our children are coming of age in a digital century where everything is reordering at hyper [...]
It Is Well With My Soul
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged clarity, Consumerism, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Hope, Incarnational ministry, Leadership, legitimacy, Missional Resurgence, Valuable life goal, vision on February 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m still trying to process what I saw and heard at the Verge Conference in Austin last week. With all the talk of the younger generation checking out, why did 3,500 young people show up for an aggressive three-day challenge to get beyond “feel good” Christianity? This wasn’t the typical boomer crowd that frequent many [...]
Who Will Save Us?
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged building momentum, clarity, Consumerism, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Faith, Hope, Leadership, legitimacy, love, missional, Missional Ministry, Relevant Ministry, vision on February 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Who will save the church? That depends on what you mean by ‘save.’ If you mean “what will keep things just as they are?” then the answer is nobody will. It’s over. And if you mean “who will maintain that handy place where we get encouraged on weekends, have our weddings and funerals, hang with [...]
Are You With It?
Posted in Empowering Leadership, tagged clarity, communication, Connecting, connection, Empowering Leadership, Leadership, love, Relevant Ministry on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kevin Miller at Christianity Today shared how teachers who are “with it” teach 1 1/2 years of content in a given year, versus the 1/2 year’s worth of content from poor-quality teachers. That’s a 300% increase in effectiveness year after year! We’re all teachers with our own unique classrooms. Imagine the impact of a 300% [...]
A Noticable Buzz
Posted in Empowering Leadership, tagged alignment, Authentic, clarity, communication, community, Connecting, connection, Empowering Leadership, Faith, Hope, Leadership, mega church, ministry, missional, Missional Resurgence, Purpose, Relevant Ministry on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is a noticeable buzz in both offices this week! Activity is picking up and we are rolling in 2010. Thanks for everyone’s hard work – you’re a great team! That was the last line in today’s weekly update to the Aspen team. Its remarkable really, even though unemployment is over 10% giving to some [...]
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