The Church Unique Visual Summary
The Church Unique Visual Summary has been a fun little project for me and the team at Auxano Design. I hope it helps you engage the concepts of Church Unique by way of review or for the first time, if [...]
The Church Unique Visual Summary has been a fun little project for me and the team at Auxano Design. I hope it helps you engage the concepts of Church Unique by way of review or for the first time, if [...]
This January, Bruce Miller released an important new book entitled, Your Church in Rhythm. Rather than writing a review, I am simply posting the foreword I wrote for the book. I was delighted that Bruce asked me. This is one [...]
My friend Jim Tomberlin is a multisite guru, leveraging his experience at Willow Creek Community Church to help many churches think through their multisite strategy.This week Jim published a useful little tool called 125 Tips for Multisite Churches.As a clarity [...]
Is it time to close a program in your church? Many leaders will tell you, "When the horse is dead, dismount." But this classic advice rolls of the tongue much easier than it plays in real life.As a leader in [...]
This is the second post related to a forthcoming ebook. The first post was titled the Tyranny of More, (6 Common Myths that Drive Churches to Do Too Much) You can still comment there to ensure a free copy of the [...]
This time of year, I enjoy reflecting and sharing the observations I gain from working with a diverse group of church leaders in North America. Here is my take on what to expect not only this year, but for years [...]
I ran into Marian Liautaud with Christianity Today last week. She made the remark, "Gosh it seems like Church Unique is staying active as a book." She meant it as a compliment which I gladly received. But part of me [...]
Tyranny is a good word to capture the dominance that myths can have over our mind. It's so easy in ministry to do the wrong things for the right reasons. Imagine that- totally pure motives, great kingdom intentions and white-hot [...]
I am grateful for Lindy Lowry at Outreach Magazine and her interest in publishing topics related to vision and clarity for church leaders. Recently they published:A feature article on Vision as The Indespensable Element in the Nov/Dec issue. I was [...]
Unnecessary complexity lives to some degree in every church. Effective leaders know how to identify it and deal with it because complexity always drains energy, attention, and other resources from the mission of Jesus. Be aware of these three kinds [...]
When I started Auxano with a few other leaders we really started two ministries. Auxano was started to navigate leaders through growth challenges with vision clarity. Auxano Creative was started to communicate vision visually. We have worked hard to keep [...]
If your staff and volunteers don't know your church's strategy, they invent their own.Many times, this is not the fault of the volunteers but a failure on the part of senior leadership. I recently reviewed an article form Harvard Business [...]
I want you and your ministry to experience the benefits of stunning, God-given clarity. As a pastor turned vision coach, I’ve worked with an unprecedented variety of churches from growing mega-churches and missional communities, to mainline revitalization and church plants. I started several interconnected organizations that help the church embody the movement that Jesus founded. My visionary planning tools, the Vision Frame and the Horizon Storyline, are used by thousands of churches every year through my calling to raise up other consultants and trainers. In 2004 I started Auxano, which I sold to LifeWay. In 2014, I founded Younique to deliver gospel-centered life design through the church. It is now the world's only comprehensive, open source, life planning system. In 2019, I founded Denominee to help networks and denominations reinvent how they bring value to the church. I've written seven books, including Future Church, Younique, Clarity Spiral, God Dreams, Innovating Discipleship, and Church Unique. I enjoy speaking about how to live a life of more meaningful progress. I live in Houston with my wife, Romy, and I have four children.
I currently work with a small group of churches and leaders. If you are interested in life planning or executive coaching individually or taking your church through a Vision Framing engagement based on Future Church, just reach out to set up a conversation.
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