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leadership development…Jesus style
It’s hard to read the Gospels and not see that Jesus had a penchant for camping. Every other chapter is Jesus and his disciples hitting some remote place and setting up camp for a fews days (or in some cases, a few weeks). With an ever increasing desire to do things like Jesus, we’ve got [...]
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transitioning a church in summer
So Eikon is in the midst of a massive transition. We are fully moving our church structure to one where people’s primary identity are found in Missional Communities (mission based groups of 30-50 people) and not in the Community Worship Service (thus we spend 3 Sundays a month in our MC’s, 1 Sunday in a [...]
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questions I’m asking after this week
I’ve spent a good deal of time this week watching all of the “Covenant and Kingdom” DVD’s (talks that Mike Breen did that will absolutely blow you away…I mean mind-numbingly great stuff…disc 4 imparticular), reading Passionate Church and Huddles resources…a few questions I’m asking that are all detail oriented in nature: 1) If someone is [...]
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Huddles & LifeShapes
Wanted to spend just a few minutes sharing my experience with “Huddle” thus far, both as a participant and as a leader. I’ll continue this discussion as it progresses, but with this post I feel like I have adequately caught up to where we are in our community story. These thoughts will be somewhat random [...]
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working through children’s ministry w/ MC’s
One of the first big tasks we are taking on with our Missional Communities (synonymous w/ the word Clusters) is how we want to do Children’s Ministry. Before I go into any details about that, it might be helpful to lay out the format our first family MC is going to be using. (explanations of [...]
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low control/high accountability: in real time
If you’ve read any of Mike Breen’s stuff or have ever heard him talk, the man will never shut up about the leadership environment of “low control/high accountability.” And to be honest, if I had coined the phrase of something that brilliant, I wouldn’t ever stop saying it either. However, it wasn’t until just a few [...]
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church structure and the transition
When we left Pawley’s Island in May 2009 we had a church structure that was exactly what we wanted it to be: Capable of massive reproduction and put discipleship at the highest premium possible. It also made Missional Communities the place where people would find their primary identities rather than the worship service as almost [...]
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Year One Recap: June ’08 to June ’09
To give a little context of where we are in our church planting story, here’s a quick recap of our first year meeting as a Core Group. June ’08 | We started with a Core Group of about 12 people and we committed to building our DNA for 15 months before we would “launch” this [...]
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and so it begins…
Had the pleasure of spending a couple of days with Steve Cockram and his family this past weekend and he suggested I begin a blog solely devoted to my experience planting a church, really for three reasons: 1) It will undoubtedly be pretty cathartic for me to be constantly working through what I am experiencing [...]
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