Leadership
Holistic Leadership Development
You want to develop leaders who will do what Jesus called us to do, leaders who can take the church forward into the 21st century. You look to the fields and see them, as Jesus does, ready for harvest — and you know that’s where your ministry needs to concentrate.
What’s needed is holistic leadership development — the kind of leadership development that comes from the harvest and leads people back into the harvest, resulting in subsequent generations of new believers and new leaders living as Jesus called us to live.
We can help you develop leaders the kind of leaders you need in a way that is both relational and intentional… and ultimately effective in helping your church accomplish its mission.
Both/And
The Kingdom of God is truly both/and. There are twin dangers: If we get so focused on the spiritual that we ignore temporal needs, we’re not living like Jesus did, and so no wonder people are critical. On other hand, we can’t forget the very last thing Jesus told us...
Thy Kingdom Come
What will the Kingdom of God look like when it comes in all its fullness? For that we must look to the Book of Revelation: no more sin, no more brokenness, no more crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. The Kingdom of God anticipates the new...
The Kingdom of God
The fact that Jesus chose to explain the Kingdom of God in parables and stories demonstrates its inherent mystery. The Kingdom of God is hard to describe, hard to pin down, hard to quantify. The content of these stories—a mustard seed that starts out tiny and grows to...
Congregational worship gathering
This entry concludes a week-long series from guest blogger Doug Lee on whole life worship. This last of the four forms of worship that we’ve looked at this week is often the hardest for missional churches. In many missional churches and house churches, the extent of...
Whole life community
This entry continues a week-long series from guest blogger Doug Lee on whole life worship. A unique kind of worship can take place in small communities. We can come together and share with each other our experiences of God throughout the week. These can be experiences...
Worship in the everyday ordinary
This entry continues a week-long series from guest blogger Doug Lee on whole life worship. Worship in the everyday ordinary is just that: being able to worship God with our daily lives, in our work, our school, our driving, in the marketplace. Worship of God can be a...
Personal worship time
This entry continues a week-long series from guest blogger Doug Lee on whole life worship. Personal worship time, the first of the four types of worship, is our one-on-one time with God. This is how we center ourselves, surrender to God, and fill with the Spirit. We...
Whole life worship
This entry begins a week-long series from guest blogger Doug Lee on whole life worship. When I was leading worship at a large church, I could see how people connected with God in the moment during a worship service. People could worship well in that hour on Sunday,...
Muscle strain in the Body of Christ
A while back I injured my quad tendon. This particularly tendon is the one that—if you’re in a sitting position—is responsible for lifting your leg up straight or kicking it out. It’s a really important function of the leg. It’s quite surprising really how many things...
Bob on YouTube!
A student taking a film class interviewed me on coaching for 45 minutes, then boiled it down to a 5-minute segment with some really great visual footage as well. In the segment, I introduce some basic concepts of coaching and thought you might be interested in seeing...
Brokenness in the 2/3 world church
This blog entry, by guest blogger Jean-Luc Krieg, continues from yesterday’s entry. While we will discover much sacrificial faith, vibrant dedication to the cause, and sincere dependence on God’s powerful intervention in the 2/3 world, and while we are seeing an...
Challenges for the American Church
This blog entry, by guest blogger Jean-Luc Krieg, continues from yesterday’s entry. In a generalized way, it seems to me that much of Christianity in America has been domesticated and church has become a fine-tuned machine with well-polished religious products...