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 [...]

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 [...]

[This is the fourth 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 [...]

Yesterday I did a post on reasons people don’t reach their leadership potential. I suggested that probably the most common reasons this happens is: You’ve never been invested in by a competent leader. You’ve been invested in by a leader, but they weren’t terribly competent themselves. You’ve been invested in by a leader who is [...]

1) They’ve never had a leader willing or interested in investing in them. In other words, they’ve got a really steep learning curve ahead of them AND they already feel inadequate. 2) They’ve had a leader(s) invest in them, but they weren’t a terribly competent leader. In other words, they’ve received investment, but it wasn’t [...]

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from someone deep in the rainforests of Ecuador. In short, this is essentially what the email said: Greetings from the rainforests of Ecuador! You don’t know me, but I wanted you to know how what you’re doing is impacting what we are doing for the Kingdom. [...]

  [This is the third 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 [...]

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 [...]

[This is the second 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 [...]

In a little over a month I’m releasing my newest book titled Multiplying Missional Leaders: From half-hearted volunteers to a mobilized Kingdom force. I couldn’t be more excited about the content in this book and over the next 6 weeks, we’ll do excerpts and blog posts and interviews about it. But before anything else…I want to [...]