5 Tiny Language Tweaks that Make a Very Big Difference

Sometimes the smallest adjustments can make the biggest difference. When our Lead Team debriefed the success of Transformed, our fall campaign, one of the observations was that I functioned as the “Transformed Nazi.” The person who said this was noting that I was carefully watching all of the language (sermon references, announcements, bulletin promotions, pre-service…

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Good Faith: Must Read from David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons

Spent some time this week with Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme, a new book from David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons. An encore for Kinnaman and Lyons, their 2007 collaboration unChristian was an eyeopening book that “presented the North American church with an ‘outsider’s view’ of itself and challenged individual Christian and church…

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How Often Do I Need to Offer Opportunities to Join a Group?

COVID-19 Note: This is one of my most frequently asked questions. And this article, written in 2016 still provides a very accurate answer. However, I took some time this morning to revise and amend my four points to reflect my current thinking (circa COVID-19). I get questions…a lot of questions. If I’ve been asked this…

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5 Things I Wish I Could Say to Your Senior Pastor

Are there conversations you hate to have? How about conversations you love to have? I have to say, one of my favorite conversations is with senior pastors about the role they play in building a thriving small group ministry. I’m having it more and more often…because a growing number of senior pastors realize that life-change…

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