04.27.10
What do we do with the Holy Spirit?
Last week I had the opportunity to join with over 3,000 church planters down in Orlando, Florida for the annual Exponential Conference. It was a good time of networking and connecting with people from all over the country, hearing their stories of triumph and defeat, excitements and challenges. ...
12.30.09
Top 10 Ways For Creating A Leadership Culture
Yesterday I posted the Top 10 Ways To Obliterate A Leadership Culture by Jon & Dave Ferguson. However, it leaves me wondering: "How do you nurture a culture that values and practices leadership development?" Well, thankfully enough Jon & Dave were so kind as to also write up a ...
12.29.09
Top 9 Ways to Obliterate a Leadership Culture
Over the course of the past few weeks I've been pondering this list written by Jon & Dave Ferguson about how to easily obliterate a culture of leadership. It's certainly stirred my thinking about how we do things at IKON and ways to move forward as we wrestle with ...
10.12.09
10.2.09
We’ve shot all our dreamers…
(ht: Andrew Jones) Remember when everything was within your reach, when all of your dreams seemed so tangible, so possible and nothing could stop you from achieving that dream... except yourself? I remember those times. I remember feeling the tension between dreaming and wondering "where have all the dreamers gone?"; the ...
04.29.09
The Church is Dead…
"Every year more than 4,000 churches close their doors compared to just over 1,000 new church starts... Christianity in America won't survive another decade unless we do something now." There's a tremendous disparity between the number of churches that are closing their doors and those that are starting up. As ...
04.9.09
Let’s do this already!
Perhaps one of the hardest things about starting a new church is patience. Patience is the one thing that wars against the driven personality of now, now, now, let's do this and get it done now! I've heard it said that patience hurts, it's not something we'd do ...
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