Influence Project

On November 11, Leadership Network is hosting a live, online event on the topic of Leaders & Readers. Six authors will share their thoughts on the role that reading has played in their leadership experiences, drawing content from their latest books–and you can join in with Q & A. (I was glad to work with […]

Thursday and Friday at Cape Town 2010 have thus far included some memorable ideas, facts, and quotes: One third of the people on the planet are under aged 15. “When we freeze water, we make ice cubes. When God freezes water, he makes snowflakes–each one different.” – Vaughn Roberts “Globalization is the greatest challenge to

We are at the midpoint of Cape Town 2010, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, and I’m trying to think about how to summarize what has happened here in the past three and a half days. Here is the big picture: the church of Christ around the world is so big, so wide, and

In an advance paper for Cape Town 2010 Carver T. Yu (professor of theology in Hong Kong) says that people living in Asia have dealt with religious plurality always, but never pluralism. In other words, there have always been many different religions, but never the notion (common in the West) that truth is relative and

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Today I was in on an international phone conversation between a number of bloggers and Ajith Fernando, a well-known Christian leader from Sri Lanka and one of the main speakers next month at Cape Town 2010. One of the themes of his writings and ministry over the years is suffering and Christian faith. His recent

Why is it that the public prayers in worship often have so little thought and preparation behind them? I can confess my own reasons: it takes time and work, and I too often think of public prayer as doing what you do in private, just letting other people listen in through the PA system. But

Will tweeting in worship, sex talks, and metrosexual makeovers draw young adults into churches? Brett McCracken raises the question in an article today in the Wall Street Journal. He talks about “a mania in recent years, as baby-boomer evangelical leaders frantically assess what they have done wrong (why didn’t megachurches work to attract youth in

There has been so much focus in the last twenty years on large churches, that one obvious point has been overlooked: is it possible for small churches (however one defines “small”) to have a fruitful and strategic ministry? The answer, of course, is “yes.” How could we not think that God indwells churches of every

The Mount Olive school district of New Jersey has made a pronouncement: “D” is just not good enough. And there is a lesson for life and leadership in here. The district has dropped “D” from the grading system, so a student may get an A, B, or C for a grade, or an F for

Here are ten practical ideas on the life of worship in a Whole Church. Plan a time to teach the Whole Church about the purposes of worship (bowing and serving), but do so only after you have delved into and been inspired by the Scriptural texts that form the background. Make worship planning a group