Ryan and I studied Zebras yesterday as part of his homeschooling curriculum. We learned that Zebras move in families. In each Zebra family, there is one stallion (male). There are also several mares (females) and foals (kids). The stallion mates with each of the mares; they give birth to the foals; they raise the foals [...]
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What Zebras Taught Me About Leadership
Posted in Leadership on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Coaching for Discipleship
Posted in Discipleship, Leadership, Storyline on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Storyline’s first Coaching Group had its initial meeting last Wednesday night. This Coaching Group represents an evolution in my approach to discipleship and leadership development within our community. I used to wonder how to describe myself and the work I do with Storyline (see here for an old blog post about Church Starter vs. Spiritual [...]
Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader
Posted in Discipleship, Leadership, Prayer, Spiritual Formation on August 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I lead from the ‘gut’. I lead from the heart. I lead from my passions. Call it what you will – I’m an emotional leader, I suppose. Here’s what I mean: if I’m passionate and excited about something, I lead well. That is, I find it easy to collaborate with others, to equip others for [...]
7 Questions Church Leaders Should Ask Themselves
Posted in Church, Leadership, Spiritual Formation on May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What is the gospel? What is the mission of the church? What is a disciple? How are disciples made? How does our current approach to making disciples line up with #3 and #4? What changes need to be made to reflect better our understanding? How will we measure our effectiveness in disciple making? From Josh [...]
How Storyline is Changing, Part 1 of 3
Posted in Adaptability, Church Planting, Leadership, Life Change, Prayer, Story of God, Storyline on March 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
When Storyline began, we committed ourselves to live out a value for adaptability in mission, knowing that times would come when we need to adapt and flex because of changing circumstances. I’m so thankful that this value has not remained at the aspirational level. We have indeed practiced it. For instance: We thought we were [...]
The End of a Chapter
Posted in Leadership, Prayer on February 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Today marks the end of one chapter for Storyline and the beginning of a new one. After months of discernment and prayer, we’ve sensed with our co-workers, Ryan and Claudia Porche, that God was leading them elsewhere to pursue their calling in music and spiritual formation ministry. This is a bittersweet transition for me, certainly. [...]
A Baby Girl, a House, a Sales Rep and a Coach
Posted in Family, House Churches, Leadership, Mentoring, Sustainability on October 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The last month has been a flurry of transition. We have many changes – good ones – sitting on the horizon of our life. The most fun is that in the next couple days we’ll welcome little baby Chloe into the world. We’ve painted the nursery (= a wall of the master bedroom), put up [...]
Best Practices of Leadership Development
Posted in Leadership, Reproduction on July 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Neil Cole’s book Organic Leadership came at a good time for me. We have been wading through some leadership conundrums and are on the cusp of the next wave of new house churches, so leadership is on my mind. Section four of Organic Leadership, “The Side by Side Kingdom”, includes Cole’s best practices for leadership [...]
What are Leaders?
Posted in Leadership on February 4, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I attended Leadership Network’s Innovation3 Conference last week in Carrollton. I had the opportunity to share a table with Neil Cole at a luncheon he was hosting to talk about his book Organic Church. The basic premise of the book is that church is most the church when it is small and highly reproductive. Cole [...]
God’s Surprises
Posted in Adaptability, Church Planting, Leadership on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been reflecting in the last couple weeks about God’s surprises for Storyline since we’ve started—situations where things have taken shape, by God’s Spirit, differently than we expected. Example #1 We expected that we’d be facilitating a weekly worship gathering starting in September 2008. We realized that such a timeline would allow us only four [...]
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