The 4 most common barriers to an outward focus
An outward focus means looking outside the walls of your own church. It means being more concerned about reaching out and meeting the needs of the community around you than you are about the level of comfort inside the church. For most churches, it’s much easier to...When the unjust win
Sometimes the unjust win. It can make you both mad and sad, but the wicked do seem to prosper and the system is set in their favor. That can be very distressing. Our friend Asaph faced that in his prayer recorded in Psalm 73. This is just a brief excerpt: I encourage...
Core coaching questions for multiplying movements
As you coach and develop more leaders, your ministry organization grows. This reality often creates challenges for leaders. They quickly find that what they’ve been doing successfully suddenly doesn’t work anymore. The senior leader who has been developing other...
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: worshipping, edifying one another, serving together, using...