What You Will Experience at Scattered & Sent
Registration for Scattered & Sent: A Microchurch Immersion closes September 1. If you have been considering it, here is a clear picture of what four days in Muncie, Indiana, this October will actually involve. You will step inside a living microchurch network. The...
Rethinking Discipleship for a Post-Christian Culture
For most of church history in this country, congregations could assume a baseline. People walking through the doors usually knew the basic Bible stories, recognized the major holidays, and shared some sense of Christian moral vocabulary. Discipleship could start in...
Your Church’s DNA Isn’t the Problem
"If we change that, we won't be the same church." Someone on your leadership team has said it. Maybe it was you, staring at a giving report or an empty row that used to be full. It sounds like conviction. Most of the time, it's self-preservation. Your church was given...
Why Healthy Churches Create Healthy Communities
Ask most church leaders how their church is doing, and they will tell you about Sunday: attendance, giving, the new sermon series, the building project. Almost no one answers the question by talking about the neighborhood outside the doors. That instinct reveals...
The Church Was Never Meant to Compete. It Was Called to Collaborate.
Across many communities, churches unknowingly compete for members, resources, visibility, and influence. While few leaders would admit to this openly, the effects are often visible. Congregations duplicate ministries, guard ideas, and measure success against...
The Shift Is Not Just Structural. It Is a New Way of Thinking.
I have watched leaders return from microchurch learning experiences and make the same pattern of mistakes. They come home energized, they have seen something that felt genuinely alive, and they begin immediately trying to replicate the structure: the small groups, the...
Spiritual Gifts: Benefits for Congregants and Church Ministries
Do you belong to a church that is struggling to find enough volunteers to complete ministry tasks? Is it always the same small group of individuals who “volunteer” repeatedly, finding themselves eventually “burning out”? Are you constantly filling “round holes with...
Stop Counting Seats, Start Counting Connections
Every leader keeps score. The only question that matters is whether your scoreboard is telling you the truth. For most of us, the scoreboard is attendance. Count the seats, measure against last year, let the number decide the mood. But if people now belong before they...
The Welcome Is Part of the Gospel
Every pastor wants people to hear the Gospel clearly. But before visitors hear your sermon, they experience your church through the parking lot, the front door, your coffee station, children's check-in, and conversations in the hallway. Long before someone evaluates...