“Whenever two or three are gathered, there will be all kinds of problems…”
– Something Jesus did NOT say (but is true nonetheless)
My frustration with a particular staff member had been increasing over several months and was now at a steady simmer. When I hired him, I saw him as a young, smart, and driven millennial with tons of leadership potential. Things started out great, but the honeymoon was coming to an abrupt end.
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When leaders realize that their churches aren’t consistently producing disciples of Jesus, they often begin to search for a new technique they can implement that will solve the problem.
They think that if we could just learn how to do missional communities, or LTGs, or huddles, or triads, or T4T… THEN we’ll be on our way. THEN we’ll be making disciples.
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Have you ever felt like you are talking past someone else?
You’re both talking about the same subject, you’re both using the same words, you both share the same goals, but something’s not connecting. You simply aren’t on the same page.
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We believe that to lead others well, you need to commit to reading, both widely and deeply.
So we asked our team to give us a few favorite books from 2016, and we’ve got a list of 10 books below. These aren’t necessarily books that were released in 2016, just books we happened to read this past year.
Recently we did a webinar on How to Preach For Discipleship and Mission.
One of the keys to preaching that empowers discipleship and mission is to preach to the imagination, not only the the intellect.
In our interactions with people about this, one of the most common questions we’ve heard is, “How do I do this? What does preaching to the imagination actually look like?”
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It started out as a great Saturday with my family… and ended with me yelling at my kids and stomping down to the basement to watch sports alone.
And it’s all part of what God is doing in my life right now. Part of the way I am learning to follow Jesus more closely as a disciple.
