Statistically speaking 70% of church planters fail. Those statistics turn around dramatically if the church planter has been assessed, trained, and coached competently and consistently.   Church planting organizations, networks, churches, and denominations have all worked out their own systems about how church planters should be assessed, trained and coached.   I wrote in my…

Church planting is becoming crucial to the survival of Christianity in America. Let’s stop gazing at the crop in the barns. We need to look at the fields yet unharvested. To pastor the biggest church possible is noble, but still doesn’t answer to the greatest impact. No one benefitted by having the biggest office in…

The church planter called me up from Salt Lake City, Utah. He needed to talk about his culture. 99% of the nice side of town was affluent mormons, while the other side of the tracks was a shame based culture of failed mormons. He had been spinning his wheels for three years, trying to make…

There are a few times that I share my consuming passion. I’m consumed with training church planters, as I know the Apostle Paul was. The thing is, he kept getting better and better at it. I know that we can too. On today’s podcast, I share about how to create an Ephesus style church planting…

So, I had a conversation with my mentor, Mac Lake. Mac is a dynamo of all things leadership related. He’s probably forgotten more than I’ll ever know. I was recently speaking with him on the phone when I had a conversation about some large opportunities looming on the horizon. Mac spoke to me about the vision for…

Biases, both positive and negative, are part of everyone’s life. So what’s behind my aversion to bivocational pastoring and self-funding strategies? I’m not certain I can answer that… but as I confront my bias I am finding that a close look at Paul and his friends, Priscilla and Aquila, helps me rethink this strange aversion.…