Q&A: What Hills Are You Willing to Die On?
Q: When you think about your own leadership and the ministry areas you lead, what hills are you willing to die on? [from the final session of our 2023 Connections Confab] A: Here’s the thing...
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What’s Their Point A?
If we’re going to serve our church’s guests well, we have to know their “Point A.” I define Point A as the emotional, mental, and spiritual space a guest is living in when they first...
Ain’t No Party Like an Instagram Party
I have finally ripped off the Band-Aid, jumped into the deep end, and taken the selfie bull by the horns. A few weeks ago I joined the roughly 17 billion people who are on Instagram,...
Remembering My Dad
13 days ago, my Dad stepped into eternity. He’d battled pancreatic cancer for 16 months. He made it through multiple rounds of chemo, a round of experimental treatments, countless trips to his oncologist, a nine...
Multi-Site: How to Build Volunteer Culture Across Campuses
In the past, we’ve discussed how to build both church culture and staff culture in a multi-site organization. But one key group we’ve left out of the process is our volunteers. If we really believe...
Top Ten Quotes: The Wisdom of Crowds
One of the most interesting – and by interesting I mean nerd territory – books that I’ve read over the last year is James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds. In it, he posits the idea...
Building Fast vs. Building Well
There’s a tension between building a healthy volunteer culture and the breakneck urgency of filling critical spots. Maybe you’ve experienced that if you’ve recently experienced high turnover on a team or been asked to create...
Why Smaller Churches Are Uniquely Positioned for Hospitality
This is the next installment in our ongoing “Small Church” series, which looks at guest services through the lens of the smaller congregation: those with 150 or fewer people in attendance each week. See the...
Parking Team Basics
You just landed on an every-once-in-a-while series called Primer Posts, a curated collection of my favorite articles and books on one particular topic. These are the resources I usually point to when people ask about getting started...
2023 Summer Reading List: Mine
Nerd week continues! In the last post, I shared ten titles (plus a bonus) that I hope you’ll consider for your summer reading. Today I’m sharing what I’m going to attempt to tackle between Memorial...
