Started a new series on the blog. Here is an intro to the series. Here is the 1st blog talking about discipleship.
Fly wheel #2 is what goes down on Sunday…..
Our faith is not only about Sunday. The work of a minister goes way beyond Sunday.
If we were however to ask people who don’t [...]
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fly wheel #2: Sunday
March 11, 2010flywheel #1: discipleship
March 6, 2010Here is part 1 of my flywheel series.
The role of the church is to help people get closer to Jesus. I don’t care what kind of message series, campaigns, slick outreaches, food, or website we have. If we are not making disciples we are not doing what we are supposed to do.
Discipleship is [...]
fly wheels
March 5, 2010A super smart guy and his friends wrote a book on organizational leadership talking about a principle he calls the flywheel principle.
Working for the church full time I have to ask myself what are the fly wheels that we as the church should be constantly improving. What are the “same old boring strokes” that [...]
too many choices
January 20, 2010A few nights ago we went to dinner with the family at one of our favorite resturaunts in Aiea.
I have been coming here since I was a kid, and since I am not much of try something new kind of guy I knew exactly what I wanted without looking at the menu.
Liz on the [...]
Primal Download
December 24, 2009When I was 17 years old I came to a realization that the way I was living life was leading me no where fast. At this point I made a decision to leave all of my old mindsets behind and begin to discover a new set of paradigms based on Jesus. This decision [...]
Primal Preview
December 23, 2009Last week I got my advanced copy of Mark Batterson’s newest book “Primal” in the mail. Mark is a pastor in Washington DC and is doing some pretty cool stuff for Jesus.
While reading Mark’s first book “In a pit with a lion on a snowy day” we came up with the name of our [...]
links 10/03/09
October 3, 2009Reading blogs written by leaders who I respect allow me to grow my own leadership. Recently I fell behind on reading these blogs, and as I caught up I thought I would post a few links of some good stuff people are doing.
One of my favorite preachers in the world has a classic response to [...]
1life2live:Day12
September 16, 2009If you found out that you would die in 30 days how would you live your life?
Our management team has committed to blog daily for 30 days as we unpack this question.
If we want to love completely we must learn and understand how to manage conflict. We need to understand that relationships are not [...]
mansfield: keltic theology
September 3, 2009still processing meetings with a pretty smart dude.
Day 3 of our meetings Mansfield outlined 7 ministry philosophies that he found in the ministry of St Patrick as Ireland saw transformation. I love the missional components in these ideas.
Here they are with my 2 sense:
Tap into heritage
-what good is in the history of our [...]
trends
August 20, 20093 days with Stephen Mansfield this week. Day 1 we discussed 10 current trends that are transforming culture. Found it to be pretty insightful.
Here are the trends:
1. There is an ongoing liberation in terms of what religion is.
-7 in 10 Americans believe that more than 1 religion provides a path to [...]
