At Exponential NEXT, we are positioning ourselves to help the church dream and execute innovative practices that increase church multiplication and healthy growth.
When healthy churches grow, disciples are multiplied and missionaries are deployed. We believe that Church NEXT is a healthy resource designed to inspire the church to innovate for the sake of the Kingdom of God.
The change won’t stop. It will only accelerate. And through it all, faithful leaders will keep asking: What does Jesus want? How can we follow him today? And what will make the biggest impact in the future?
Join Dave Rhodes, Exponential Church NEXT Director and Clarity House, Co-Founder with Shane Stacey, Clarity House, Co-Founder for episode 1 of the Church NEXT series: Embracing Your Kingdom Platform.
In this video Dave and Shane set the Biblical framework for the entire series by looking at a pivotal moment in the life and ministry of Jesus. When the Pharisees try to detour Jesus’ ministry future, Jesus makes a move to ensure his ministry future. This pivotal move models a shift that we all must make as ministry leaders if we want to empower the latent leadership potential of our church.
Join Dave Rhodes, Exponential Church NEXT Director and Clarity House, Co-Founder with Shane Stacey, Clarity House, Co-Founder for episode 2 of the Church NEXT series: Embracing Your Kingdom Platform.
Albert Einsten was once asked, “if you had an hour to solve a problem, how would you spend it?” Einstein replied, “I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about (and naming) the problem and 5 minutes thinking about the solution.” In this video Dave and Shane help leaders name the problem in their context that the rest of the video series is built to solve.
Join Dave Rhodes, Exponential Church NEXT Director and Clarity House, Co-Founder with Shane Stacey, Clarity House, Co-Founder for episode 3 of the Church NEXT series: Embracing Your Kingdom Platform.
Most leaders make the mistake of leading with vehicle rather than vision. It’s like someone asking you where you are going on vacation and you answering Toyota. It makes no sense. Toyota may be how you get there but it doesn’t inspire anyone to take the journey with you. That’s the way most people feel when we ask them to join our Small Group, Bible Study or Missional Community. It should be no surprise then when we find that people don’t want to or don’t have time to join our Small Group. They already have a BMW parked outside. What people really need is a vision vivid enough to get into our vehicle to journey toward. In this video, Dave and Shane help “would be” leaders create a vivid vision that they can cast based on the value that they demonstrate in the lives of people they hope to influence and impact.
Join Dave Rhodes, Exponential Church NEXT Director and Clarity House, Co-Founder with Shane Stacey, Clarity House, Co-Founder for episode 4 of the Church NEXT series: Embracing Your Kingdom Platform.
You can’t lead everyone. But just because you can’t lead everyone doesn’t mean you can’t lead someone. In this video, Dave and Shane help leaders identify their Leadership Voice as they name their sphere of influence. By casting contextualized Vision in the scope of the leaders Leadership Voice, Dave and Shane unveil a fail proof way for leaders to always have people to lead and disciple.
Join Dave Rhodes, Exponential Church NEXT Director and Clarity House, Co-Founder with Shane Stacey, Clarity House, Co-Founder for episode 5 of the Church NEXT series: Embracing Your Kingdom Platform.
Once leaders have identified who they are leading and where they are leading them toward, the next question is “What do I do?” In this video, Dave and Shane provide tools for every leader to identify “what’s next” for the people they are leading.
Join Dave Rhodes, Exponential Church NEXT Director and Clarity House, Co-Founder with Shane Stacey, Clarity House, Co-Founder for episode 6 of the Church NEXT series: Embracing Your Kingdom Platform.
Every journey of discipleship follows the same pattern. It’s a journey through The Dip. Becoming a leader that is easy to follow requires leading people through the dip that they too often try to avoid. In this video, Dave and Shane help leaders prepare for the journey ahead by identifying 4 stages of development that they will need to invest in as they lead the people who are following them.
Join Dave Rhodes, Exponential Church NEXT Director and Clarity House, Co-Founder with Shane Stacey, Clarity House, Co-Founder for episode 7 of the Church NEXT series: Embracing Your Kingdom Platform.
Once leaders have identified who they leading, where they are leading them, what they are doing and what the journey ahead will look like, it is now time to name how they are going to get there. In this video series, Dave and Shane help leaders name their leadership vehicle and bring the series together in an easy to use and portable framework that they can continue to use over and over again.
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Carrie Williams is the Executive Director of Exponential NEXT. She has over 25 years of vocational ministry experience and has held leadership positions in global mission organizations, nonprofits and churches. Carrie was the CEO of Leadership Network during its acquisition under the Exponential brand. She was also part of the core leadership team that launched The Church of Eleven22 in Jacksonville, Florida. She was the founder and CEO of The Truth Republic, a non-profit ministry focused on equipping women to fulfill their calling. Currently she uses her vocational experience serving on the front lines as an ambassador carrying the multiplication message while discovering and sharing new learnings from innovative projects that are helping shape the future of the church. Carrie is a nationally known leader and influencer, using her experience to help others explore, be equipped, and empowered toward their unique God-given calling.
She is married to Benjamin Williams, Executive Pastor of Culture and Creativity at the Church of Eleven22 and together they have two daughters Kyah and Taylor.
