How to Measure Real Church Growth
What are your ministry outputs?
When church leaders think about growth, they default to measuring people's participation, not their production.
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When church leaders think about growth, they default to measuring people's participation, not their production.
[...]Good church leaders know the importance of releasing and sending people to do ministry. Jesus himself moved quickly from modeling ministry for twelve leaders, to sending out those same twelve to do ministry on their own (Luke 9:1).Yet in observing [...]
A pastor friend sent me an e-mail yesterday asking for some guidance with a missional book reading list by Sentralized. As I typed a response, I sent him a chapter that puts "missional" in perspective of how we think about [...]
In the introduction to Church Unique, I shared my passion that instead of leading a great model, "I would rather work behind the scenes as a model maker. My greatest joy is seeing a leader for the first time articulate [...]
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 [...]
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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