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5% of Americans attend a house church
I got away for my birthday, and the USA today paper that was left outside my door at the hotel carried a prominent story about house churches. Seems I can’t get away from the idea wherever I go. One figure particularly surprised me: 5% of Americans attend a house...
Question #5: What’s the multiplication strategy?
Note: part of a series started April 22nd. A community of Jesus-followers engaged in hands-on ministry to serve the world around them is a thing of beauty. Fruit will be borne from people reflecting Jesus with a spirit of humility. Sometimes it takes a long time, but...
Question #4: How can we get involved in missional incarnational ministry?
Note: part of a series started April 22nd. At this point, we have a new church, a focus on raising up leaders from the harvest and the organizing principle of a network of leaders. Great. But what are we actually doing? The fourth question my coach asked me was, "How...
Question #3: What’s the organizing principle?
Note: part of a series started April 22nd. The third question my coach asked me about my new ministry was, "What's the organizing principle?" Everything has to have an organizing principle of some kind. For one of my previous diatribes on this topic, see my entry...
Question #2: What’s missing?
Note: part of a series started April 22nd. The next question my coach asked me—after I had wrestled for a while with “What’s next?”—was “What's missing?” After reflecting on the state of the church in the U.S. I decided my answer was that true leadership development...
Question #1: What’s next?
Note: part of a series started April 22nd. “What’s next?” It’s a simple question, but one that we need to be asking ourselves on a macro-scale at least once a year. What does God have for me next? How am I to invest my time, resources, and energy? I had two different...
Five simple questions to help you focus your ministry
When I was in the early stages of pondering the church plant I’m currently working in, my coach asked me a series of five questions that, over the course of months, helped me think through what my church plant should look like. Over the next five blog entries,...
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...