Jun 28, 2018 | Church Planting, Missional
Cutting the Cost and Updating Development *Originally re-posted in May 2015, edited and re-posted.* I took an initial church planting assessment tool online and failed…. Turns out I don’t have what it takes. Despite planting two churches, a career as an...
Feb 14, 2018 | Leadership, Missional
Just finished my book that’s now in the hands of the editor. I’m aiming squarely at the lost heritage of the church, and how we cope. So far, not well. Yet I believe post-Christendom is a great opportunity for the church, but only if we make the right...
Sep 15, 2017 | Church Planting, Missional
Do you know the children’s rhyme that goes like this, “here is the church, here is the steeple, open the church, where are the people?!” The rhyme is dead wrong and most leaders would echo the same. The church isn’t the steeple it’s the...
Apr 11, 2017 | Church & Culture, Missional
She poked her hand up to alert the professor. “What do you mean by the word ‘sin’?†This wasn’t a Sunday school class, rather an introductory university course on the history of the Reformation. Sin. A word that reflects a worldview we’ve relied upon...
Apr 4, 2017 | Leadership, Missional
I’m working hard to complete a book I started in 2015. During research, I came across the mini-series published by the GOCN network (must reading for anybody interested in the development of the ‘missional’ church conversation.) Reading Alan...Mar 31, 2017 | Church & Culture, Missional
**Repost from late 2013 with edits.** There’s no shortage of online fodder attempting to exegete the millennial generation. Churches are facing a ‘millennial exodus’ and are seeking any number of strategies to stop the bleeding. In my...
