July 2008

I don’t care what anybody has to say – a successful church planter needs a good set of balls!  I’m not talking about any garden variety set of of balls.  I’m definitely not talking about the set that every man has – if those were good enough – every random schmo that planted a church [...]

No two church planters and no two church plants are alike.  Even leaders of the multi-site movement will tell you that each location of their church is unique in many ways.  Someone recently put it to me like this – church planting is like baking a cake.  Nearly every cake has a few key ingredients [...]

All churches have a cultural slant. When we have been in a church for a long time, we don’t always see it because we become a part of that slant and the slant was probably created to make us comfortable.  But when you visit another church and travel outside of your cultural comfort zone, you [...]

Any real attempt at church diversity without a diverse staff and a diverse set of key leaders smacks of phoniness in my book.  Mix up your style, invite the international orphans to sing to your congregation, use hip hop font on your flyers…do those things.  But when you do those things with a single-race or [...]