Books… The Importance of New Perspectives 27 Jul 201027 Jul 2010 I once heard Mark Driscoll say that if your book shelves looked like you just bought out some publishing house then you may have too narrowly limited your sphere of…
Church… Defining Unity for Your Leadership Team 8 Jul 2010 Pastor Mark Driscoll writes, “Unity is gained slowly and lost quickly and therefore must be labored for continually. Unity is so important that Jesus often prayed for it and Paul…
Uncategorized A New Church Planting Network 10 Jun 2010 I just found this new Church Planting Network. I don't know much about it beyond the fact that it is distinctly Baptistic, but you can check out their blog and…
Books Summer Reading 9 Jun 2010 So here's my reading list for this summer. Many of these books will be worth checking out regardless of your job, career, or stage in life, so let me encourage you to…
Missional… Missional Church Planting In Rural America 26 May 2010 The Southern Baptist Convention Church Planting Center hosted a workshop and seminar on Missional Church Planting In Rural America yesterday. Apparently it was geared as a training program for the…
Personal The Grounds for Covenant Renewal 19 May 2010 What a foolish and wretched man am I, and yet how amazingly tender and gracious and merciful is God. In fact God himself describes his character as thus: The LORD,…
Leadership… Missional Leadership, Part 7 30 Apr 2010 If you do any general survey of Missional literature this word “organic” comes up everywhere. We see it in the language of cultivation. We see it in the discussion of…
Leadership… Missional Leadership, Part 6 26 Apr 2010 Previous models of church leadership sought to generate programs and strategies that had specific applications and required specific methods. The members then would hop on board this program and follow…
Leadership… Missional Leadership, Part 5 23 Apr 2010 An important point needs to be made at this juncture, however: just because the church as a whole (congregation and leadership) have embraced the vision does not mean that the…
Leadership… Missional Leadership, Part 4 22 Apr 2010 What this means for leaders is that time must be spent getting to know a congregation, understanding its strengths and weaknesses, determining its values and passions. It also means…
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