Category: Leadership

  • Recent Thoughts about Church Planting from Ed Stetzer

    Recent Thoughts about Church Planting from Ed Stetzer

    Last week Sun Valley Community Church (the church I have the privilege of serving at) hosted Ignite, the national church planting conference for Converge, which is one of the most successful church planting movements in the country. While there Ed Stetzer, who among other things serves as the Executive Director of LifeWay Research had the…

  • 10 Articles that will Help Your Church Make Vision Real

    10 Articles that will Help Your Church Make Vision Real

    Thank you for making February a great month here at Helping Churches Make Vision Real! It’s great staying connected with you through social media and hearing that these articles have been helpful. So, thank you for connecting with me through the content on this blog! You made these the top posts from this last month.…

  • Is your Church like Walmart?

    Is your Church like Walmart?

    Walmart, with all of it’s success as a company, has continued to come under public criticism in recent years. A quick Google Search will provide a litany of articles about the company devaluing employees in order to pad bottom lines and the big box store “gobbling up” smaller local retailers when they move into a…

  • Campus Constants for Multisite Churches

    Campus Constants for Multisite Churches

    Last week the Unstuck Group hosted a successful webinar, “Making Multisite Work” with Tony Morgan, Warren Bird and members of the Unstuck Group. During that webinar I mentioned a “Campus Constant” document that we use at Sun Valley, a large multisite church in the Phoenix Metro area that I have the privilege of serving at, that…

  • 5 Questions Stuck Churches Commonly Ask

    5 Questions Stuck Churches Commonly Ask

    You’ve probably heard me say before that “stuckness” is no respecter of the “brand” or “flavor” of a church. All kinds of churches across America are stuck. Large churches, small churches, old churches, new churches, Baptist churches, Methodist churches, Nazarene churches, Presbyterian church and even non-denominational churches are stuck. In fact Thom Rainer, President and…