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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...
Recovery from wounds
How do you recover from the wounds received when people hurt you? Too often people—including Christian leaders—let the wounds fester until they become infected. Here’s a different strategy. Although the medicine may taste bitter, it leads to long-term healing....
Unpacking the bag
Here’s an exercise I use sometimes to resort my priorities. It’s like unpacking grocery sacks. Take everything you’re currently doing out of the bag and examine it. Pray and get clarity on your priorities. Then only reload those items into the bag that apply to...
Happy April Fool’s Day!
What better time to laugh at ourselves than April Fool’s Day? If you’re willing to not take yourself too seriously, check out the Wittenburg Door. It has enough to please and offend everyone.
Farmer’s market
Note: This is part of a series that started with the March 28 post. House churches are like a farmer's market. Each stand represents a separate vendor. They each stand alone, but they're interconnected. They all show up at the same time on the same day because they...
SuperTarget
Note: This is part of a series that started with the March 28 post. Large churches are like megastores-- like a SuperTarget. There's everything under the sun there. Lots of options. They may not have really niche, artsy items, but you can get all the expected...