Great question. I like the way Dan Kimball writes it in, “They Like Jesus But Not the Church”. Here is what he writes. What is Missional? 1. Being missional means that the church sees itself as being missionaries, rather than having a missions department, and that we see ourselves as missionaries right where we live. [...]

With all the changes in mine and Stephanie’s life these past couple of weeks I’ve been reading back through Gilbert Bilezikian’s book, “Community 101”. It fascinates me to learn more about what true biblical community should look like. I really think he has hit the nail on the head when he alludes to the fact [...]

As many of you know I was on staff at a church in Arlington, Texas where over a 5 year period we transitioned from having only Sunday School to having both Sunday School (on campus-centralized) and Small Groups (off campus-decentralized) running simultaneously alongside of each other. I was on a ‘coaching call’ as a part [...]

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to teach our Membership Class which helps persons determine if our church is a place they’d like to “belong”. It is part of our introduction to church family process that allows persons to peek into the life of our church and determine if this is the place for [...]

I caught some flack for saying that, “everyone wants to belong to something, even when they don’t know what it is.” But you know it’s true. Here is a case in point. How much do you know about the “emo scene” in your area. Well get to doing your homework. It is an entire subculture [...]

The Survey Data has all been posted. Just to recap. We posted an article on www.pastors.com the first week in March 2007 and during the month of March we surveyed 315 Pastors worldwide to see where they are in the areas of communication, connection, consistency, and classification in helping persons move from the “Street to [...]