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Over the last 18 months at COMMUNITY we have made strategic moves in order to mobilize all (yes, we mean ALL) our people for mission.  Part of that process has been to clearly articulate in a simple way our mission and how we will carry it out.  The mission is “helping people find thier way back [...]

For years I’ve had to take a deep breath whenever anyone asked me what I did for a living.  I knew that as soon as I’d say anything about helping to see new churches started I’d receive a patronizing and dismissive smile– and I’d be relegated to some dustbin of irrelevance.  It took me a [...]

I probably operate on a very basic, possibly naive assumption about the Church. That assumption is that the Church is only about the mission of God. It’s what I read in God’s word. It’s what I witness in the life of Jesus. I suppose it makes me feel rather sheepish then calling a church “missional” [...]

Adapted from “How To Multiply Your Church” While the Western church is growing richer it is gradually edging itself to the margins of society. We’ve shown little numerical growth in two decades—furthermore our society seems more polarized than ever, mostly over issues pertaining to morality. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the [...]

In the movie Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays the part of the Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane.  While most of the baseball old timers and scouts had a set of stats they used to look for young prospects, Billy Beane understood that the only stat that mattered was runs scored.  Through statistical analysis he changed [...]

I’m riding next to an employee of a large multi-national company right now. Many of my new acquaintances are made this way. We had a delightful discussion about our growing up years in Midwest states and shared how both our families tended to do driving vacations around our great country during our childhood. Both of [...]

Here is a question that has been bothering me a lot lately; there seems to be a new church plant in every theater and school in many towns, so do we really need more new churches? As I was reading the second chapter of Mark yesterday about Jesus’ calling Levi to be his disciple a [...]