So how do you develop an apprentice once they have said yes? Well, I am glad you asked! This is a framework I call the Coach’s playbook. In all development, there are four phases, four types of leadership a coach needs to bring to the table, and four anchor activities that should be at the…

What is the world’s most popular search engine? Google, YouTube, Tik Tok?  I would contend – though there’s no data to prove or disprove my theory – that the biggest search engine is our relational network; our friends and family. People call or text me with a wide variety of questions all the time, some…

Ten years ago now, my first book dropped in America, Church Zero. It ruffled some feathers. It was a call for the church to wake up to the realities that were just around the corner, namely the decline of the church in the face of an irreversible age gap that was occurring. For some reason that I can’t fully explain, I had a sense that…

As a young church planter, I hadn’t considered ordinary people qualified to start new churches. We understood discipleship but not locally-trained pastors-it seemed that worked only overseas. When we launched our first daughter church, we faced resistance from other pastors who viewed it as rebellion or some hippy thing. A “Branch of Hope” Richard Agozino…

Young People Leave The Church Because It Creates No Value For their Lives. When people look at their schedule they make time for the things that bring their life value or solve a problem. The Unfortunate fact for most young people is that they believe the Church does neither. I don’t want to use the…

As Christian leaders, we often feel dissatisfied with the status quo or overwhelmed by rapid cultural shifts. We know something needs to change, but the fear of uncertainty, loss, or pain often leaves us stuck in ineffective systems and missing out on kingdom potential. We have God-sized dreams and a kingdom vision that is far…