Rubber, Meet Road

Most preaching answers the question, “Say what?” (What is the Bible saying?) But great preaching answers the questions, “So what?” (Why does this matter to my life?) and “Now what?” (What do I do about this tomorrow?) Why? Because most people are not intrinsically motivated to learn just for the sake of learning. To keep…

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Address Objections

Salespeople are trained to anticipate and be able to overcome objections. If you don’t you won’t get the sale. The same is true in preaching to a cynical audience. Most pastors speak to a agreeable bible-believing audience every week, and so this isn’t a concern. But if you want your church to be filled with…

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Yelp

One Sunday morning a couple weeks ago a guy here in Las Vegas woke up and had a thought that surprised him, “I think I should go to church today.” It had been years since he’d been. He had no connection to any church in Las Vegas. So how does he choose where to go?…

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Launch Conference

Speaking yesterday and today at a church planting conference called Launch.  I opened the conference last night, and was followed by Alan Hirsch. That is not cool. He’s so smart, I’m pretty sure once he was done everyone was like, “Who was the goofy loud guy before Hirsch?”

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Vault + Auxano Announcement!

Cool news: Will Mancini and Auxano will be doing a Church Unique workshop on Vision Clarity at Verve on Monday morning, October 15th, from 9:00 a.m. to noon.  The Vault Conference starts on October 15th at 1:00 p.m.  Yes, we’ve strategically put these two events back-to-back so you can attend both! The Auxano workshop is…

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