Missional Multi-site churches: Skeptic turned believer (Pt 1)

I have to admit I was a skeptic with the multi-site church model at first.  My first thoughts were negative due in part to what I had seen as  a “celebrity model” demonstrated.  A celebrity model multi-site approach is more of a way to promote a central figure and multiply mega churches, rather than reproducing new leaders and break off the mega-church into more of a community...

Stetzer and Fitch: What is Missional?

If you have been around me much in the past 3-4 years you have probably heard me refer to the word “missional” or “missional church.”  It is because I have been dreaming, eating, and sleeping the concept as a part of my paradigm for six years.  Though, I must say, the concept was something I knew about before I even knew the word “missional” existed. ...

Hope in Action…is a statement of Hope from GPC

I went home Sunday afternoon exhausted, yet I didn’t speak in one of our gatherings Sunday morning.   Why the fatigue? I believe it is from a number of sources.   I had an emotional build up over the span of two days.  Exciting work from the community service on Saturday, to the commissioning of our first church planting family from GPC, to sending out a team...

When art, creativity and collaboration collide…

I love it when art and creative comes together.  I got this from a good friend, Eric Bryant’s blog who is a Navigator for Mosaic, in LA.  Mosaic doesn’t run from change, innovation and creativity, but embraces it as the a part of God’s creative order.  They state as a core value: Creativity is the natural result of Spirituality.  Genesis 1:1 would support this value. A high...

Why do churches fail?

Again, as I said last week, I am full of question more than answers.  Thanks to Josh Hunt, a Facebook friend, who compiled these questions and quotes… In How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins (Good to Great; Built to Last) says the following: (p. 46) “We anticipated that most companies fall from greatness because they become complacent–the fail to stimulate innovation, they fail to...