Over the past year, conversations with pastors, executive pastors, and church operators have started to sound the same. The questions repeat. Is AI safe? Is it useful? Is it a distraction? Is it something churches should avoid? What is emerging across healthy ministries is not panic or blind enthusiasm. Many pastors are intentionally broadening their […]
Faith is often strongest at the beginning of a calling and most vulnerable after a little success. We expect doubt to follow failure, but Scripture shows us something more unsettling. Fear often shows up after victory, when the cost of obedience becomes real and the future feels exposed. Genesis 15 meets us in that exact […]
I will never forget the first time I visited the Tampa Underground. I boarded a flight to Tampa with very little understanding of what we would encounter. My 25 years in ministry had all been invested in the prevailing model church growth world. The point of the trip was to expose a young multiplier (and […]
If I asked you to draw a picture of a “church network,” what would you sketch? For many leaders, the word “network” immediately conjures images of organizational charts, headquarters, bylaws, and boards. We imagine large conferences, complex funding models, and logos. We think of bureaucracy. We think of something that requires permission to start and […]
