I grew up in a small Indiana town of 1,200 people. It was so safe that we didn’t own a key to the house, didn’t take the keys from the car, and knew most families two to three generations back. But what often evolves within safe circles is low trust for ideas outside it. That’s [...]
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Safe Can be Dangerous
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged alignment, building momentum, community, community needs, Connecting, connection, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Hope, Leadership, love, mega church, ministry, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, third place, vision on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Mega Churches Surprise Us Again
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, building momentum, Connecting, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Leadership, mega church, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, vision on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We were wrong! We believed young people would be turned off by the boomer generation mega church. We thought small churches and incarnational coffee shop gatherings would provide the soul conversations and authentic relationships they longed for. However, a recent study by Warren Bird at Leadership Network and Scott Thumma at the Hartford Institute reveals [...]
A Broken Spirit
Posted in Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, building momentum, communication, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Hope, Leadership, mega church, missional, Missional Ministry, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, vision on April 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here are more thoughts from the Exponential09 church planting conference. The theme is “The Art Of Movement” and the talk of the day was about the need for collaboration to create Christ-centered, transformational movements. Dave Ferguson shared that geese can fly 71% further when flying together in formation. So must we work together to build [...]
Things To Think About
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged alignment, Authentic, building momentum, communication, community, Connecting, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Faith, Hope, Leadership, mega church, missional, Purpose, Relevant Ministry, vision on March 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
If you could read my mind, what a tale my thoughts would tell. That’s a line from an old 70′s Jim Croce tune. It came to mind as I read Mark Beeson’s blog post this morning. Mark is the pastor at Granger Community Church, one of the most well known and innovative churches in the [...]
Finding Hope
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Authentic, clarity, communication, community, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Faith, Hope, Incarnational ministry, Leadership, legitimacy, love, mega church, ministry, missional, Purpose, Relevant Ministry on March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Take away a person’s memory and they become anxious, take away a person’s hope and they become terrified. That was a provocative thought from author Joe Myers. It explains why Christians can be vicious and so out of character when you threaten their past or their future. These days, that loss of hope is leading to anxious and terrified Christians [...]
Big Church, Little Heart
Posted in Empowering Leadership, tagged Empowering Leadership, Faith, Hope, Leadership, love, mega church, Purpose, trust on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As my church grew bigger my heart grew smaller. You could have heard a pin drop as pastor Denny Wilson shared those thoughts. We all recall how Solomon taught us to guard our heart. We can develop compelling vision and excellent ministries strategies, but without a broken spirit and a contrite heart we’ll never affectingly act on them. [...]
We Must Live Simply
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, tagged Authentic, Bahler Family Doing Life, building momentum, communication, Connecting, Consumerism, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Faith, Hope, legitimacy, love, mega church, Purpose, trust, Valuable life goal on February 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve mentioned before that my dad would often say, “We must live simply so others can simply live.” Dad had a real conviction about generosity. So last year when pastor Dave Ferguson asked me to speak at his Generosity Conference at Community Christian Church (CCC), I was grateful to be there. I connected with his passion for [...]
The World Has Changed – Will You
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, mega church, Relevant Ministry, Rex Miller on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So what were you thinking last month as the dominoes fell one right after another? The demise of Lehman Brothers tipped into the rushed sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America, which was followed by the federal takeover of AIG and the $700B bailout. What does this financial crisis change for you? In a [...]
Mega-Churches: Something’s working
Posted in Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, Relevant Ministry, tagged Church growth, Ed Stetzer, Empowering Leadership, Evolving Culture, mega church, outreach, Outreach magazine, Relevant Ministry on October 6, 2008 | 16 Comments »
80% of the churches in the US are on the decline, and that includes every traditional denomination. The younger crowd has been quite clear about loving Jesus but disliking the church. In fact, According to Dave Kinneman’s book, “Unchristian,” they trust the gay community more than the Christian community! So what’s up with the continued [...]
Simplify Church…Simplify Life
Posted in Empowering Leadership, tagged Empowering Leadership, frustrated, mega church, simple church, struggling, successful pastor, thom rainer on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“I never dreamed leading a church would be this hard, “ lamented my pastor friend over lunch yesterday. Even though his church had grown from 1300 to 2500 the past four years he was struggling, frustrated, and a bit scared. “I don’t know what to do,” was another painful response as he pondered if he [...]
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