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Sometimes we get it backwards – the Great Commission
This blog entry is by guest blogger Steve Ogne, church planter coach and consultant with CRM. Steve and I worked together for a decade and collaborated on several projects together, including The Church Planter’s Toolkit. Steve’s most recent publication is...
Disciple Being or Disciple Making?
This blog entry is by guest blogger Steve Ogne, church planter coach and consultant with CRM. Steve and I worked together for a decade and collaborated on several projects together, including The Church Planter’s Toolkit. Steve’s most recent publication is...
Airplane spirituality
When I go on airplanes, I pray that people won’t talk to me. Yes, I know. Some people use going on airplanes as looking for witnessing opportunities. But being an introvert, I love the opportunity for the downtime and I’m usually planning to either rest or get some...
First review of Missional Journey book
I just saw the first review of my latest book, The Missional Journey... at least the first review that I know of. And it's from someone who has an aversion to the word "missional." Check out what Carl Simmons has to say on his blog. [WooZoneProducts...
What God sounds like
By guest blogger Mark Foster Recently Bob wrote a blog entry about the devotional book Jesus Calling. I use that book as well and have for more than a year now. What was especially compelling for me is that the words Sarah Young shares match the experience of the way...
On spiritual direction and coaching
I was recently asked this question in an email: “Bob - are you familiar enough with spiritual direction to be able to articulate the general differences between that and coaching?” As it happens, my wife Janet is a spiritual director, so I am familiar with the...
Virtual team success
Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance by Richard Lepsinger and Darleen DeRosa is an excellent resource if you need to work with virtual or decentralized teams. It’s researched-based and practical. Having worked with virtual...
Developing leadership in your church plant
If you expect your church plant to grow beyond your own personal capacity to lead others, you absolutely need to develop leadership in your church. There are two elements to this challenge: developing people and developing the organization. The people development side...
How can you help your people form missional communities?
As people come to know Jesus we form them into communities of Jesus-followers—called churches in the New Testament. These are disciple-making communities where people engage all the functions of the church: worshiping, edifying one another, serving together, using...
How can you help your people engage culture?
One of the major challenges of leading a church is kicking your people out of it. If they are spending all of their time within the church and with other Christians, they’re not out there engaging culture and making disciples. Engaging culture simply means living...
My newest book just released!
I have a new book just released that I’m really excited about. It’s called The Missional Journey: multiplying disciples and churches that transform the world. Check out some of the things people are saying about it: With The Missional Journey, Bob continues...
Jesus calling
I normally don’t like daily devotionals, but in our church gathering we’ve been working through one together and we’ve seen numbers of people who have been very helped by this book. Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young, consists of a series of very short, one-page thoughts,...