In his book Enchanted, Guy Kawasaki gives a list of the people you want represented in your organization (he writes from a business, not church, perspective – but often uses church words)… Advocate: The advocate takes the side of your customers, believers and followers and proselytizes things like lower prices, faster delivery, free support, and…

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Faith In Your Story

In the book Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins, Annette Simmons writes: People don’t want more information. They are up to their eyeballs in information. They want faith – faith in you, your goals, your success, in the story you tell. If that’s true, and I think it is, what does it say about what…

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Vault Announcement: This Is Getting Crazy

Time for yet another big announcement about Vault, our conference for church planters and pastors who are serious about reaching people who are far from God. Drum roll please … Will Mancini is going to be speaking at Vault!  Will is the author of Church Unique and the leader of Auxano, and in my opinion,…

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Vault Quotes

If you haven’t registered yet for Vault, our conference (I call it an immersive seminar) on how to do church for people who don’t like church (with a lot of special emphasis for church planters), you need to soon. We only take about 100 people, so the opportunity won’t last (especially with John Burke –…

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The Power of a Podcast

There’s a guy here in Vegas who heard about our church last March, but wasn’t interested. He heard about us again around Christmas, and he was a bit interested, he felt he needed a change, needed something. But he didn’t want church. He knew about churches, and no thanks. Still, he went to our website,…

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