This year will be my 20th in full-time ministry. There are so many days where I wish that I could go back and start all over. Not because I am disappointed with where I am now, but because I could have saved so much time and anguish trying to figure a few things out. Experience
I am in Dallas this week, hanging out with a group of churches at Leadership Network talking about the rapid growth that each church has seen and how it impacts their ministry. One of the comments, after an exercise yesterday, was how it was nice to hear other churches that are going through the same
1. It’s really hard Helping someone become a fully devoted follower of Christ is not for the faint of heart. There will be times of elated joy and times of extreme frustration. People’s lives are messy, and walking this journey with them gives you a back stage pass to the ugliness. 2. It takes a
In case you missed them, here are the top 5 posts from April. 5 Reasons They Aren’t Coming Back Should We Stop During The Summer? 4 Wrong Assumptions About Discipleship Community Is Not An Option We Just Want To Belong
School is starting to wind down, vacation plans are being made, but what about our small group? Summer time is tricky for a lot of groups, because if you forge ahead with the normal schedule, you will likely have shrinking attendance. Most of our groups at Cross Point take the summer off from meeting every
Yesterday was baptism day at all of our Cross Point campuses. I have been in full-time ministry for 20 years, and I am still amazed at the power of seeing someone take their first public step of faith through the simple act of baptism. I felt tears come to my eyes every time that person
I tweeted this earlier this week: “I tell my kids they are silly to worry about being left out of something, then it happens to me & I am consumed with it.”. The tweet was inspired by an emotion that may seem silly on the surface, but strikes at something that never goes away –
One of my favorite Ted talks is about how to start a movement by Derek Sivers. He uses a video from a music festival in Europe as an example of how a movement is built in about 3 minutes. One of the things he says is that “the first follower turns a lone nut into
Like everyone on Monday, I watched in horror as the tragic events in Boston unfolded on my computer screen and tv. I will never fully comprehend why there are sick people in the world who desire to inflict death and injury on innocent people that they do not even know. My heart is hurting right
Every leader thinks that they have a great small group, and some of them wonder why people won’t come back after they visit for the first time. There are a million reasons why some people try out a group and it doesn’t work, but here are 5 possible reasons that they may be fleeing for
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