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Free Ebook: How Social Movements Scale
As Christian leaders, we need to understand there’s more than one way to scale. Which is right for you? What do do comedians, razor blades, best sellers and bracelets all tell us about the future of the church? Well, they give us a window into understanding how social...
The Red Herring of the Future Church Conversation
The last few months there's been a proliferation of articles and podcasts focused on what the "future of the North American church" will be. This is a natural thing, I suppose. As leaders start thinking and planning for a life on the other side of a global pandemic...
The Future of Discipleship
About once a quarter, Catapult invites five thought leaders (and practitioners) to share their insights around the same five questions, all geared around a certain topic. The topic this quarter? The Future of Discipleship. In almost every way we can measure, and every...
Screen Addiction, Discipleship & the new AA
Well I just finished leading a session at the "Future of the Church Summit" with Exponential and I wanted to share one idea I shared there. In fact, it's one that I've been thinking about for the last 18 months. ...but before I get there, let me set the stage about...
The Fatal Flaw of Discipleship Strategies
I've probably spent the last 15 years of my life trying things in the local churches I've led or with leaders I'm coaching or walking alongside to help them innovate discipleship strategies. And more recently at Catapult, we've been piloting some new strategies to...
How we got 10,000+ Leaders in Coaching Groups
When we started the COVID-19 coaching groups, Daniel Yang, Todd Milby, and I were hoping we’d have somewhere between fifty churches join in. As we continued to talk with leaders of other networks, we began to realize the number might be a little bigger, but our...
The Prophetic Voices We Do NOT Need Right Now
It’s not lost on anyone that the Western Church is in a state of upheaval right now with the spread of the novel coronavirus. People are losing their jobs, bills are piling up, church buildings remain empty and church finances are already beginning to creak. Largely,...
6 Predictions that Didn’t Make the Cut
Recently, I released a 6-month project I worked on with a cultural anthropologist to make 10 Church Predictions for the next 10 Years. All told, we ended with a list of 31 predictions that we felt fairly confident in making. (You can download the PDF here.) But rather...
Futurist Church Series :: Where is “Missional” 10 Years on?
Ten years ago, the idea of "missional" was driving almost all conversations in leadership circles and I think it's fair to say 2009/10(ish) was the hay-day of the "missional conversation." But was there a difference between the "conversation" happening in evangelical...
How your Expertise is KILLING Innovation in your Church
In 1990, a famous study was conducted by a student at Stanford named Elizabeth Newton. She got a group of people together and divided them into two sets: “Tappers” and “Listeners.” Here’s how the study worked: A Tapper was partnered with a Listener and each were...