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What kind of leader is most needed to guide the new church? Since his passing, the larger than life leader whose will, personality, and creativity drove Apple – Steve Jobs , has been the focus of the media.  Jobs fit squarely in the category of what many call “the heroic leader.” He took power and [...]

The church world “is often motivated by a culture of success. We recruit, fund, celebrate, propagate and evaluate based on predictable, measureable success rates.” I wrote these words in my October blog post “Out Of The Algorithm, Into The Mystery!“. Our propensity for favorable outcomes has various repercussions, one of which is an unintentional, but [...]

I read a statement a while back in Dan Kimball’s book They Like Jesus but Not the Church that burned me with conviction. He asked something like, “When you go to a movie or go to hang out with friends, do you do so only with your Christian friends?” All my adult life I have [...]

Every pastor wrestles with creating or maintaining a structure that aligns with their vision. Church planters are no different. No topic seems to be influencing this conversation right now more than the Genius of the “AND”. This is something that I’ve wrestled with from the beginning. The question continues to arise: How do we maintain [...]

Hi friends, this email just came to me from a pastor who has taken the missional community bug pretty seriously over the last five years.  He’s now wrestling with a question we get asked over and over. Maybe it is something you’re wrestling with as well. Ken says, “I wanted to asked you what you [...]

Much has been made lately of the phrase “living incarnationally.” The basic idea is to live as Jesus lived while he was on earth. Although a simple and accurate definition, it begs several important questions. How did Jesus actually live? What did he actually do? Which specific actions of his are we to imitate? In [...]

In the last few weeks, I’ve dug up a concept I wrote about in The Tangible Kingdom, that I believe is the key to Christian engagement of the lost world.  It’s by far the most controversial topic to date, but one I think is worth fighting over. I introduced a concept called “Whimsical Holiness,” to [...]