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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 [...]

Well, that title says it all. You can fill in any words you want for the characters that will no doubt appear anytime you have to make this decision. Wait. Isn’t this a church planting blog? Well yes, and some of you will leave churches to plant or leave plants to do it all over [...]

Most of us only dream at the scale of what we’ve experienced before. It’s the learning curve that’s holding us back. But learning curves are meant to be conquered. Some people are born into households where learning curves are naturally conquered and confidence is inherited. This is the advantage of princes. They were born in [...]

We naturally gravitate toward what is familiar.  Once we find a place to sit, we’ll sit there every time.  Once we find a favorite dish, we’ll stop trying new things on the menu.  Once we get into a routine, it’s next to impossible to get out of it. As the old adage put it: you can’t [...]

Like my last two posts, this one is built on the premise of Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink that introduced the idea that our first intuitions and spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or even better than—carefully planned and considered ones. This is the third of four questions on a blink test for your church to [...]

As a planter, I used to stand up in front of people all the time and say: ”If ONE person comes to know Christ as Savior, it is worth it all!” The problem is that I didn’t really believe it fully. Our last Easter at New Hope in a tiny Ohio town where our first plant [...]

In my last post I reminded you how Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, Blink introduced us to a psychologist who almost intuitively knew whether a marriage would last after being with a couple a few minutes and a tennis coach who knew could accurately predict a double-fault before the racket even made contact with the ball. His [...]