If you are implementing an initiative—in any area of ministry—you’re probably finding it hard to answer the question, “How are we doing?” Often measuring progress can be challenging. Try taking the following questions and applying them to the particular plan or...
Don’t wait on making disciples… start now. So something. Seek to be the hands and feet of Jesus, raising up others. In tandem with our own development, becoming like Jesus, we also reach out and become part of the mandate of Jesus. Who can you start influencing? Who...
One strategy I’ve found to be quite helpful– particularly in the worship area– is to separate the creative planning of the worship service from the actual implementation. You can get your creative thinkers to come up with ideas and the plan the...
Dave Wasemann, of www.visionteam.info has been walking mainline pastors through my latest book, The Missional Journey. He has developed a protocol of involving people in a study of the book for a few months, then meeting with them once a month for eight months...
Over this past week, I’ve introduced you to the latest resource developed by myself and Dave DeVries, the Cultivating Missional Movements implementation guide. One of the things I particularly like about this guide is that it begins with numerous...
Note: this is the fourth entry in a series on the Cultivating Missional Movements implementation guide. God is not done with you yet. The last of the four stages in cultivating a missional movement is called “keep growing” because we never truly arrive. Using...
Note: this is the second entry in a series on the Cultivating Missional Movements implementation guide by myself and Dave DeVries. The second of the four stages is called “get going.” After you’ve prepared with “get ready,” the next thing to do is to “get...
Dave DeVries and I teamed up to write The Missional Journey to help you through the journey of cultivating missional movements. The best way to process and implement the ideas in this book is to join us at our upcoming Cultivating Missional Movements Workshop...
This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. Sometimes in coaching we can spend a great deal of time identifying the key issues, brainstorming potential solutions, and crafting a plan for change. But all of this comes to nothing if we don’t...
