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Hey, church planters! Get ready because we’re diving into leadership succession—a topic that might seem like it's only for larger churches. But guess what? We need to be thinking about this too, even if we’re just starting out. Why Succession Planning Matters...
There are lots of opinions about what a local church should look like, but at its CORE, the local church is a body of...
If the church was a mission to the moon, and I was the commander of the mission, my call to Mission Central would be:...
Church planting is one of the toughest callings - period. Those who think it's easy are either crazy, never tried, or...
I’m not a huge fan of most policies and a majority of them, in my opinion, need someone to improve them. It could be...
After a time of crazy growth, we had a number of people leave as a result of some challenging changes we had...
We naturally gravitate toward what is familiar. Once we find a place to sit, we’ll sit there every time. Once we find...
One of our worship leaders shared a great line in an email to me. He and his wife met a couple from our area at a...
The Great Commission is the CORE of Christianity, where Jesus gave this challenge: “Therefore go and make disciples of...
I once heard a joke about statistics. The person giving the stats said - "73.267% of all stats are made up on the...
At the start of a new year, rather than thinking about resolutions and future thinking, I prefer to first mentally...
There are some lessons we only learn the hard way. One of them for me has been ways I help creative people on our...