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My new book “Multiplying Missional Leaders” releases tomorrow!

We’ve spent the better part of a year working on this book and we’re the day before the big launch! Below are some pictures of the book, but here are some endorsements we’ve picked up for it. Admittedly, putting endorsements for you own book on your blog is a hard pill to swallow for me. [...]

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Why Huddles plateau and stall

The vehicle of “Huddle” is quickly becoming a discipleship vehicle that many people are trying out, experimenting with and seeing extraordinary fruit in discipling and training current and/or future Christian leaders (If you’re interested in reading about this vehicle, you can check out this book. You can also get it in ebook form). However, one [...]

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Are you building an organization or a missional family? | What America can learn from the European Church | Part 6

[This is the 6th and final post of a 6-post series titled "Letters to America," written by Paul Maconochie, the pastor at St Thomas Philadelphia. Paul was the pastor who followed me at Philadelphia and now, 8 years later, it is one of fastest growing churches in Europe, doing some incredibly imaginative things in a [...]

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Weekend links

Here’s a short list of some of our favorite blog posts, articles and videos from this past week from 3DM bloggers and others around the web. Donald Miller on turning fact into fiction (Blue Like Jazz opens this weekend) Is church about the superstar pastor? Is the WHO of church planting more important than the [...]

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What do you do if someone is hurt because they weren’t “picked” for your Huddle?

Each week, via a short, 2-3 minute video we try to answer one practical question that we hear lots of people asking. Our hope is that these will be helpful, but will also spur on conversation and more questions in the comment section. If you want to keep digging around with questions related to this topic, post [...]

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Is your family worth imitating?

My friend Chris Norman said this a little while ago and thought it was worth posting: Discipeship is about whether you have a life worth imitating. Oikos [your extended family on mission] is about whether you have a family worth imitating. I wonder how many of us are living in such a vibrant, healthy, missional [...]

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Is Church about the Superstar Pastor? | What America can learn from the European Church | Part 5

[This is the fifth post of a 6-post series titled "Letters to America," written by Paul Maconochie, the pastor at St Thomas Philadelphia. Paul was the pastor who followed me at Philadelphia and now, 8 years later, it is one of fastest growing churches in Europe, doing some incredibly imaginative things in a truly post-Christian [...]

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Weekend links

Here’s a short list of some of our favorite blog posts, articles and videos from this past week from 3DM bloggers and others around the web.   We must expect different things from Pastors How I learned to teach/preach and what it’s teaching me today Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Leadership (from Fast Company) Why movements [...]

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What summer webinar topics would you suggest?

As you know, 3DM has started doing webinars in the last couple of months and we have seen quite a number of people attend these webinars. We’ve done them on church planting, how to use the Bible in a missional church, raising kids who love Jesus, marriage and mission and many, many others. We are [...]

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The plug-and-play problem of church leadership

The following is a brief excerpt from my forthcoming book Multiplying Missional Leaders, which comes out at the beginning of May. Imagine that it’s a Tuesday morning, and that the staff of your church has gathered for its weekly staff meeting. Staff members discuss the weekend service and whether it delivered the message and experience they [...]

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