Predicting The Future

Loving Chip and Dan Heath’s new book, Decisive, on how people and teams make decisions, usually bad decisions. The Heaths write about studies that have been conducted on experts’ ability to predict the future and it turns out, they can’t. Even in their areas of expertise they have no idea what’s going to happen. They say,…

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Vince Recommends

I got to read an advance copy of Group Shift: From the Couch to the Community by Austin Maxheimer and Zach Below and if you’re involved in small group ministry or want your church to be more missional, it’s definitely worth reading. The authors help people to small groups not as a separate activity within…

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Struggle For People

Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk (who, along with writers of Polka songs, are pretty much the only people I listen to). He has one of my favorite quotes, and it’s especially pertinent for pastors who start churches for people who don’t like church (or others doing difficult work for God). Merton wrote: Do not…

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Hey Church Leaders

Every year we do a conference here in Las Vegas called Vault for leaders who want to have churches for people who don’t like church. It’s (intentionally) an intimate sized conference – limited to about 100 attendees – with people coming from literally all over the world. Last year we had people pastors from Burma,…

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Vault Midwest!

The last three years we’ve had a conference called Vault for pastors who want to reach people who are truly far from God and who don’t like church. It’s gone incredibly well, and we’ve been asked to put on the conference for pastors in the Midwest. So this May 7-8 we are offering Vault Midwest…

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