About Me
Chris is a ministry consultant and coach with over twenty years of experience serving the local church...
Why Should I Care About Theology?
I am currently taking a group of guys at Cross Point through a spiritual leadership mentoring process. For 8 months, we will be studying a variety of church leadership books, Bible study methods and theology. It’s kind of like turbo seminary. In our group meeting this week, we had a lively discussion around a theology
It’s Time To End It
We kicked off a new series yesterday at Cross Point called, The 5 Lies That We Believe. I am excited about this series, because what stops most people from doing amazing things for God are the lies that Satan tells us. In John 8:44, Jesus says: “You belong to your father, the devil, and you
Gay Marriage and Small Groups
I normally use this space to share a thought or a nugget of wisdom that I have picked up along the way, but today I would love to have a discussion. If your small group team has not thought through how to handle the question of homosexuality, then it will have to soon. The Supreme
4 Wrong Assumptions About Discipleship
I think that all of us would say that the main purpose for small groups in a church is to make disciples. If we are not making disciples, then we might as well call them social clubs. The question then becomes – what is a disciple? For the sake of this discussion, I am going
Why We Do Groups
I have written before about how I believe the number 1 key to small groups working in a church is the public support of the senior pastor. Our Pastor, Pete Wilson, recently talked about our groups strategy at Cross Point with Ed Stetzer on his show, The Exchange. This is Church – Pete Wilson on
Is Your Group Balanced?
No matter what kind of a study that a small group does – message notes, dvd driven, book study, Bible study – every discussion should have these 3 components: knowledge, understanding and action. A group can get out of balance when they do not have all 3. There are a lot of groups that spend most
Big Day
Yesterday was an amazing day at Cross Point as we celebrated the opening of our Nashville campus’ new building in downtown Nashville. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Cross Point, the Nashville campus is our broadcast campus and has been leasing space from another church for the last 6 years. It was an
You Should Do The Opposite
Last week, I helped facilitate a Leadership Community at Leadership Network in Dallas, and one of the exercises that we had the teams do was called Opposites. We had each church list 5 of the most common ways they do currently ministry and then what would be the ministry potential of doing the complete opposite.
Look For The Bright Spots
In the book, Switch, Chip and Dan Heath introduce the concept of looking for positive deviants in problem solving. When we take on a system that is broken, we have a tendency to focus solely on the problems and try to fix them. The end result is that the issues are usually so big and
Top 5 Posts For February
In case you missed them, here are the top 5 posts for the month of February: 5 Characteristics Of A Great Coach What Is A Small Group? 5 Reasons Groups Are Not Working At Your Church Small Groups For The Rest Of Us pt 3 Leadership Pipelines
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