I learned in church revitalization that many times entrepreneurial-type leaders disappear when things aren’t working well. People who like big visions and want to see progress around them don’t hang around when the church is holding on to the status quo. If the church...
A few weeks ago, my sermon in our first service completely bombed. It was the worst in recent memory. Between the first and second service, I re-wrote it and it turned out pretty good for the second and third services. The total time went from 26 minutes to around 21...
If you’re a church planter, you know that discouragement can come anytime. Whether it’s due to slow growth, financial struggles, or difficult relationships, discouragement can knock you off your feet and make it hard to keep going. But don’t give up!...
The best ideas in an organizational setting often come by getting a group together and throw out random new ideas or ways of doing things. You can usually come up with better solutions if you put the right people in a room and let them throw lots of ideas on the table...
I was interviewed a few years ago by the Suncrest Church that I planted in 1994 in southeast Chicagoland for a New Year’s Sunday video. Knowing that I had been involved in entrepreneurial work since the 1980’s in church planting, seminary institutes, and in the...