There is a great debate that’s been taking place for years. Possibly longer. Decades, centuries, millinia? In my last assignment, I was assaged constantly to grow a leadership team, to scale my efforts, and this would guarantee success. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the market: we weren’t able to grow our [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘leadership’
August 5, 2008
Mixed-up Priorities and Broken Relationships
I was told that church planting would be the hardest thing I would ever do. They told me this. I believed them. However, they lied. It was much harder than one could ever explain. As we were winding down our stint as church planters, some friends of ours were starting plants in the Denver and [...]
July 29, 2008
Good to Great. or Good to Mediocre?
From the beginning we wanted Common Ground to be fresh and new. Not so fresh and new that no sensible person would attend, but fresh enough to be attractive to the average person. But where to start?
Much of the advice I was getting back then, in the early ’00s, was to cast a vision so [...]
July 27, 2008
Funding Issues
(NOTE: This is from an email I recently wrote to a friend asking about why we lost funding for Common Ground.)
I know, most people assume the worst regarding church planting and I can get a bit defensive.
Pastors are paid by the local conference, but that doesn’t take the science of finance out of the [...]
