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When people ask about church, one of the first questions is, “What kind of ministries do you offer?” For better or for worse, the term “ministry” has come to mean, “a program that will meet my needs.” This connotation is an unfortunate distortion of what Christian-ministry should be about. My way around this misperception is to simply offer no [...]

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 [...]

After seven cancer surgeries and two heart attacks – I’m an old man who has nothing to lose by speaking his mind.  It would mean a lot to me for some of you to respond… It’s my view that the average person attending the average church today is simply lost.  I recently asked a pastor [...]

The healthiest churches are congregations that understand the urgency of sharing God’s love and the centrality of the local church in His plan. Since the Jerusalem church planted congregations in other cities and the Antioch church took it to another level of aggressive planting—right up to the visionary congregations of today that are dreaming about [...]

Vision. We all talk about it. Its importance, it’s power, it’s ability to draw people and resources. But some lessons associated with vision will never come from the mouths of  others, you may hear them, but you will have to EXPERIENCE them. Once you see them, they will always remain etched in your soul… Salty [...]

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 [...]

John Chapman, aka the legendary “Johnny Appleseed” was a missionary who reached out to native Americans in the Ohio Valley in the early 1800s. He Had Simple Tools His primary planting tool was a stick! Do you have a stick? When his current stick wore out he found a new stick. I heard recently through [...]