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Great Ideas

I love getting around leaders who make me think.  Yesterday I had the opportunity to be at the North Point staff meeting where Reggie Joiner spoke. 
After serving at North Point for over 10 years, Reggie left the staff there to devote all of his time to ReThink.  As part of that move, he's traveled [...]

2009: A Missional Marketing Decision

Last week, we talked about why we stopped a lot of outside marketing at Connexus in 2008 and asked some questions about when marketing might be helpful.
Yesterday we had one of our final 2009 budget meetings.  We had $5000 budgeted to market a parenting series we're doing in February of 2009. The problem is, [...]

What Marketing Might Help With

So yesterday I blogged on the downside of marketing in response to Tony Morgan's post about why churches should stop marketing.
Really grateful for the questions/comments Nick and Dan offered in regard to yesterday's post, so here's a little more.

To me, starting a church is as much as question of narrow-casting your vision as broadcasting [...]

Vision Disconnect, or Strategic Difference?

I have loved the opportunity to connect with leaders on the Orange Tour this year. We get to talk about family ministry and leadership, two subjects I love.
But as I sat down with lead pastors in over half a dozen cities, a few things became clearer for me.  We often talk about being aligned on [...]

I Am Attracted to Two Things

I was at church Saturday night listening to Reggie Joiner bring the message.  (I have loved just being in church the last two weekends – not leading anything, just plugging into God as a Christ-follower.)  Something Reggie said in the middle of the message stopped me in my tracks.
If you really want your home or [...]

Self-Control: That Thing in the Bible No One Talks About

Now that it’s fall, that means my bike is going to go away soon and I will have to resort to other forms of exercise, which means the likelihood of me exercising plummets.  Worse, my appetite always spikes when the temperature drops.
Enter the long lost art of self-control.  I’m a hit and miss guy when [...]

If Your Friends Could Preach….

So as a companion to last week’s post about what you would choose to be the next message series, here’s a fresh angle.
In your conversations with your friends who don’t attend church, what subjects keep coming up?  What might be a subject that help move them from disinterested to curious to even maybe trying a [...]

Loving Seattle and Families

Had a great weekend.  It was fantastic to be in Seattle for two days for the Orange Tour.  Being around Reggie Joiner and Sue Miller and the rest of the Orange team always energizes me. These guys are sharp, and deeply devoted to reaching families. 
We also met a great group of senior pastors and [...]

Thinking Family

Last week we had some amazing conversation about welcoming new guests.  It was fantastic dialogue. 
As new people walk through the door though, many of them are families.  I know as I walked through neighbourhoods in Barrie on Saturday leaving doorhangers on peoples doors, it was pretty much commonplace that every house had kids under [...]

Imagine What Might Happen to Families….

I don’t want to clog up the Connexus blog with all kinds of extra thoughts, so I thought I’d share a bit more here.  If you want to know what’s happening this week at Connexus, check this out and follow updates here.  We’re fasting and praying over the things that break the heart of God [...]