Transitions are never an easy thing. There are always hurt feelings, awkward pauses and empty words, and an inability to move forward. BUT … Transitions are only difficult if you don’t plan for them. You see, when you plan for transitions, there aren’t any surprises. Sure, people will come out of the woodwork and say weird…
The more you add to the messenger, the more you take away from the message. It’s common a business principle that you need to be able to look past the messenger in order to focus on the message. Not every high capacity leader is a high quality speaker, nor are they someone who can craft…
One of the great and grand ideas of marketing is to create a system that allows your top shelf products, lower shelf accessibility. We’ve spoken about this before, in that when you make your top shelf lower shelf accessible, you are creating a system that allows anyone and everyone to have “the good stuff”. In…
The presents are wrapped and placed neatly under the tree. The kids are all tucked in for the night and you and your wife sit down on the couch for what seems like the first time this week. It’s Christmas Eve and you’re exhausted. Shopping for presents and food have absolutely drained you and the couch…
It’s almost an anthem for us, that we start and end with the church in mind. We love the church. Like really, genuinely, with all we have, love the church. It’s where we came to faith. It’s where new friends became family. It’s where we met Jesus in real and practical ways. If there is…
Whether you are a new church plant in the pre-launch phase or an existing church a decade down the road, there is always room for improvement, or what we would like to call, refinement. We had a conversation with a client over the weekend and discussed this specific point. They’re four years into their church plant, have…