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If there’s one thing we learn from Ted Haggard it should be that few leaders finish well. Don’t assume you’ll be one of them.

Bobby Clinton estimates there are about 800 leaders mentioned in the Bible. We have enough information for only about 100 of them to access their leadership. About 50 of these have enough [...]

Ok I’m an expert now.

Just came off a coaching appointment with Liam Glover from NCD Australia.

Liam in Queensland, Peter Botross and I in Melbourne. Skype video with the MacBook built in web cam worked wonders.

Peter is planting a church in Brunswick, inner urban Melbourne. I’m coaching him because he makes me look good. Liam was [...]

Church planting movements spread through contagious relationships.

So here’s a book every church planter and movement leader should take a look at:

“Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking” (Andy Sernovitz)

Sernovitz’s definition of WOMM:
“Giving people a reason to talk about your stuff and making it easier for that conversation to take place.”

Here’s what [...]

Spent last Saturday working on a stone water feature in the backyard and thinking about the rise and fall of movements. As you do.

I’ve had the walling bug ever since my mentor Adrian taught me how to lay stone. Since finishing the last project I’ve been dreaming of a water feature: a fish pond beneath [...]

I heard author, John White, tell this story at a Vineyard conference in Sydney in the early 90s. I never forgot it.

My first son, Scott, was just learning to walk and fell on a cement walkway, splitting the area below his chin so deeply that the floor of his mouth was exposed. We were appalled. [...]

Gospel Outreach is bringing Martin Robinson out next year to run a series of one day church planting workshops around Australia.

Martin has written more books on mission, church planting and postmodernism than I’ve had hot breakfasts. . . almost.

Here’s the conference brochure.

Here’s the Gospel Outreach strategy for planting churches around Australia: Church planting info kit.

Here’s [...]

For as long as I’ve been in this game the critical issue has always been, “We don’t have enough church planters.” Here’s ten reasons why I think that is so.

1. We don’t ask
It’s his harvest field. It’s his mission. If you don’t ask you don’t receive. Keep banging on that door until your neighbour [...]

Alan Hirsch has a new book out.
From the blurb:
Alan Hirsch is convinced that the inherited formulas for growing the Body of Christ do not work anymore. And rather than relying on slightly revised solutions from the past, he sees a vision of the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of [...]

Some wisdom from Gordon MacDonald on the fall of Ted Haggard.

I’ve spent more than a little time trying to understand how and why some men/women in all kinds of leadership get themselves into trouble whether the issues be moral, financial, or the abuse of power and ego. I am no stranger to failure and public [...]