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Dr. Yonggi Cho, Pastor of the largest church on earth (800,000) was asked, “How did your church get so large?”  He answered, “It’s easy; we retain our visitors.” There are multiple resources for Visitor Follow-up available, but the bottom line is that you can’t make them return.   What you can do is make them feel [...]

Church planting is a spiritual endeavor from first to last. Systems and methodologies are helpful, but they are just helpful. Jesus is building His Church and all the slick strategies in the world will not replace His blessing and anointing. Run away from anyone who tells you that if you follow his or her steps [...]

Stewardship is often defined as “the proper management of our daily life for the glory of God.”   I think this is incomplete.  Stewardship is wider and deeper than a Sunday School definition.  Stewardship is whole life stewardship.  It is our time, talents and treasures, but it is also our relationships, including a relationship with Jesus [...]

Just how broad is your vision? I got into an interesting discussion about vision the other day. A group of us were discussing “It,” by Craig Groeschel. That day’s focus was the vision chapter. One church planter in the room said two things that seemed to sell himself and his church short of potential. First, [...]

About 300,000 people die every day in the world.  About 7,000 in the US.  That’s about 290 per hour.  27 people die in the US about every two hours.  So, why did last week’s outré and bizarre events penetrate us as they did? Six months into one of our church plants we had a six [...]

Woody Hayes is credited with this description of Ohio State football.  It really came from a sportwriter and was originally “Five yards and a cloud of dust”, then “Four Yards and a cloud of dust” and finally became famous as “Three yards and a cloud of dust.” Regardless, the philosphy of attending to the basics [...]

O.K. I confess. I am an obsessive assessor. Almost as soon as I meet people I pop the questions, “So tell me, have you ever started anything from scratch? What has given you the greatest sense of satisfaction in your life? In what ways do you usually associate with people who are different than you?” [...]