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Lead into the Mission
Lead into the Mission *Cast vision *Form a team *Move forward together Some missions are just too big to accomplish alone. If you sense God is calling you to lead a team of people toward the mission he’s given you, the next step is leadership. I have many fond...
Look in the Mirror
Look in the Mirror *Reflect personally with others *Engage in the change process *Clarify your direction Looking in the mirror is an especially significant turning point for many disciples. We all need to look in the mirror periodically to evaluate how things are...
Involve Others
Involve Others *Identify the right people *Invest in their development *Encourage and challenge them Once we have been involved in ministry and found our focus, we need to involve others in ministry as well. Ministry, regardless of the form it takes, is never a...
Find your focus
Find your Focus *Identify your passion *Create a growth plan *Commit to excellence Once we have fallen down enough times, odds are we’ll start to get the hang of something. You have to be bad at many things before you can be good at one thing. Maybe a round of student...
Make a Difference
Make a Difference *Show up *Do something *Give of yourself Following in the footsteps of Jesus is not passive—it’s active. Making a difference is the exploratory first step toward finding our calling. To find out what unique contribution God has for us to make in this...
Make Disciples
Discern spiritual curiosity Share the story of Jesus Help others follow Jesus Seeing as it was the last thing Jesus told us to do before his ascension, we should spend some quality time thinking through what it means to make disciples. How do we make disciples? What...
Serve Others
Be the feet of Jesus Be the hands of Jesus Be the voice of Jesus Serving others may be the most versatile of all 12 of the areas we’re looking at in this series. Jesus said it best: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me...
Love Others
Be present with others Share your life with others Be changed by others Loving others—part 2 of the great commandment to “love God and love others.” They can’t be effectively separated: If you’re actually loving God, you will be loving others too. What does loving...
Love God
Love God *Engage with God *Listen to the Spirit *Experience transformation What does it look like to love God? A million different ways. The quiet man who runs prayer retreat center in the mountains and the gregarious businesswoman in New York who seems to know...
Footsteps of Jesus
I was recently asked in a blog comment to define what I mean by incarnational, missional ministry. I’ve actually been asked that same question in a number of different ways, but this may be the most direct articulation of it. Essentially, what do I mean when I say...
Christmas all year round
I know it’s a little late to be posting a picture of a Christmas tree, but bear with me. Our church’s Christmas gift is probably just now arriving in Oaxaca, in the south of Mexico. At the initiative of one of the men in our missional house church, we at ViaCordis...
Making Life Count
Not to be self-promotional or anything, but my most recent book saw its biggest bulk purchase ever over the holidays. One church bought a copy of Making Life Count for each person in their congregation as a Christmas present—over 3,000 copies. In case you haven’t seen...