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Reflections of Jesus
Having been in this field of church planting for a long time, I have seen and experienced and been a part of that changing landscape. In my experience, I've seen the process of reaching people for Christ becoming more and more relational. It's a grassroots,...
Shifting gears in discipling
When you’re discipling people who are in recovery, I’ve found that there comes a point when you have to shift gears. Once someone is well-established in recovery—not drinking or using but still wrestling with life issues—an important shift needs to happen in your...
The new apologetics
This morning I have an entry from guest blogger John Amandola: “I like the good feeling that I got when I came to church today. I am a spiritual person.” I was enjoying my conversation with a young man who was visiting our church plant this week. He is a grad student...
The choice for irrelevance
I am 58 years old (soon), and this morning I am speaking to my peers in my own age group because we have an important choice before us. The old ways are no longer working. Church is no longer attractional: "If we put on a really good service and offer really good...
Happy tax day!
Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor. So the spies questioned him: “Teacher, we know that you speak and...
The power of the bright spot
I’m learning the power of the bright spot from one of my current favorite reads, Switch by Dan and Chip Heath. I’ve been incorporating this concept into my coaching relationships as well as my life/ministry conversations. Say someone brings up an issue: “I want to...
The structure of life
I recently ran across a really committed 12-step guy, who also really gets discipleship. He’s been very successful in life-on-life multiplication of disciples. As I talked with him, he expressed strong concern against doing anything structured. Here was my basic...
Fellowship on mission
One of the hindrances we have in church life is that we focus on fellowship as a priority. The result is an inward focus. We become myopic and don’t go on mission. We feel we need to get better and have a closer fellowship before we can go on mission. Yet if we...
Sympathetic employers
By guest blogger David Davenport The most critical aspect of bivocational ministry is the day job. Is my employer sympathetic to my call to ministry? How might sympathetic employment work? A business man or manager hires a person who is called to ministry, agreeing...
There’s not enough money in the world to keep doing church the way we’ve been doing it.
There’s not enough money in the world to keep doing church the way we’ve been doing it. If you calculate the unchurched population, then you calculate how many more churches are needed and what each church would cost, there literally is not enough money in the world...
The power of modeling
A man has been leading one of the 10-week groups we’ve been doing in the transition center. The other day he told me that last night he had one of the residents—a woman in recovery—leading it. “I didn’t tell her that’s what she was doing, but she was leading it. She’d...
Fresh reflections on the book of Acts
It was great to reconnect with my friend Neil Cole at a conference we were both speaking at. Neil and I have partnered together on various projects in the past, and it’s exciting to see how God is continuing to work through his ministry. He has kept his focus on...